Changelog

A new plugin is now available for Hermes Agent, offering a compact Plexamp player in your desktop's status bar. This lets you easily control your Plex music, including likes, playlists, and playback features like repeat and a sleep timer.

A new compression plugin called Aphrodite has been added to Hermes Agent, offering advanced features like context compression and automatic command management. This makes it easier to optimize data transfers and streamline terminal command execution.

A new plugin called `commandcode-oauth` has been added, allowing Hermes to connect with external model providers using your Command Code login. This integration makes it easier to use your existing Command Code credentials for accessing new AI models.

The charting plugin has been updated to a new version that adds helpful crosshair tooltips for easier data exploration and clearer error messages when charts fail to load. This makes the plugin more user-friendly and robust.

This update adds new plugins to manage multiple API keys for a single service. These plugins intelligently rotate through available keys to ensure consistent service, even when some keys encounter errors or temporary limits.

The plugin catalog now includes "Alan's Way," which allows your Hermes bot to proactively check in with you during waking hours when your Telegram chat has been quiet. A related entry, "Alan's Way Computer," enables the bot to manage computer tasks securely through an approved channel.

A new plugin called Laso Finance has been added, allowing Hermes agents to spend USDC in the real world through services like prepaid cards and Venmo payouts. This feature significantly expands the agent's ability to interact with financial transactions securely, requiring human approval for money movement.

A new plugin automatically routes your LLM requests to the best available model based on real-time value rankings. This ensures you use cost-effective models for simple tasks and higher-performing ones for complex requests, while also maintaining safety and credit awareness.

Hermes Agent installations no longer fail due to a missing component. This update ensures that the Solstice provider is correctly recognized during setup, allowing it to be used in all relevant processes.

A new cheatsheet is now available in the Hermes Agent title bar. This feature provides quick access to commands, helpful tips, and relevant documentation, making it easier to use Hermes.

A new Magi plugin has been added, allowing users to review and manage their stored Hermes memories. This plugin helps maintain your `MEMORY.md` and `USER.md` files and can use AI for memory compaction.

The kanban-gantt plugin has been updated to version 1.4.0, fixing issues with moving tasks between boards and bulk assignments. This update also adds a new collapsible tree view for tasks and a list view, making it easier to organize and manage your projects.

A new voice provider has been added that can improve speech-to-text accuracy by running local AI models and optionally enhancing transcripts with an AI language model. This allows for faster, more accurate voice commands while keeping your audio data private.

A new memory provider called hyatlas has been added. This allows agents to have persistent memory across different sessions by storing and recalling information in a structured way.

The Git hook has been updated to a newer version which fixes issues where it might incorrectly think a rebase was still in progress, or get stuck pushing commits that the remote server rejects. This ensures the Git hook works more reliably, especially when dealing with protected branches or interrupted operations.

The Vault View tool has been updated to version 0.5.0, bringing new features like per-conversation workspaces and improved note hiding. This update makes interacting with your notes more flexible and organized.

The project now uses a more efficient embedding model, making downloads smaller and embedding faster on your computer. A new check has been added to ensure your data is re-processed correctly after these updates, preventing any loss in search quality.

The LetsFG plugin has been updated to version 1.1.0, fixing issues where it was trying to use outdated tool names. This update ensures that the plugin correctly interacts with the latest versions of the LetsFG services, improving its reliability for tasks like booking flights and hotels. Additionally, the plugin now includes a new logo and a more efficient banner image.

The error reporting plugin now allows you to view errors over custom time periods and see the most recent failures. This makes it easier to track down and understand recurring issues.

The plugin catalog now displays an updated README for the Jot plugin, making it easier for users to understand how to install and use it. This change also corrects how the plugin describes its "undo" feature for AI edits.

A new feature allows Hermes to keep a record of your approval prompts and how you responded to them. This helps you understand how often Hermes asks for confirmation and how long it typically takes to get an answer.

Hermes now uses an updated version of Kinprove's genealogy research recipes, which adds new ways to research your family history, such as using burial and military records, and better supports resources like WikiTree. This update ensures Hermes is using the latest available research tools for genealogy.

The hermes-memory-ui plugin has been updated to version 0.6.4. This update ensures the plugin uses the latest stable version for improved performance and reliability.

A new plugin called OpenRouter Spend has been added to help you track your spending with different AI providers. This feature displays your API key usage and estimated costs directly within the Hermes Desktop interface, making it easier to monitor your expenses.

A new plugin called "Profile Models" has been added, which displays detailed information about your AI model configurations directly in the Hermes Desktop status bar. This makes it easier to understand and manage which AI models are being used for different tasks.

The description for the Honcho plugin in the catalog has been updated to better match how the project describes itself in its README. This change ensures the plugin catalog provides a more consistent and accurate overview for users.

The "stack" plugin now links to its webpage and displays a helpful diagram, making it easier to find information and understand its function. This update also ensures we are using the latest version of the plugin's code.

A new plugin is available that creates a verifiable receipt for every approval or denial decision made by Hermes. This ensures that even when an AI makes an automated decision, there's a tamper-proof record that anyone can verify.

A new "Pick up" feature has been added, allowing you to easily resume unfinished work by showing unfinished tasks from your recent chats and projects. This helps you quickly get back to what you were doing without losing track.

A new desktop plugin called "next-steps" has been added to suggest relevant follow-up actions as clickable chips after each conversation turn. This feature aims to make continuing conversations or starting new tasks more intuitive and efficient.

We've updated the LoreConvo memory provider to a newer version. This change prevents non-primary Hermes sessions from writing to memory, ensuring that only main conversations are logged and improving efficiency.

The Hermes Agent can now integrate with TinyFish, a service that provides web search, data extraction, and cloud browsing capabilities. This new integration allows users to leverage TinyFish's features directly within Hermes, with controls for credit usage and API key management.

The Linkup plugin for Hermes has been updated to version 1.0.1, improving its ability to safely extract web content and process URLs. This update ensures that sensitive information is better protected and that web extraction processes are more reliable and efficient.

A new plugin is now available that provides a dedicated interface for interacting with the Honcho memory feature. This allows users to better manage and query their chat conversations and derived information.

The Hermes Agent now uses an updated version of the Vornik plugin, version 0.11.3. This update improves memory management for forgetting entries and adds an optional feature to approve security prompts on your paired phone.

The hermes-review-loop plugin has been renamed to diaktoros and updated to version 0.2.0. This change improves how it handles failed CI job logs from GitHub.

The installation instructions for the Ace Data Cloud plugin have been updated to reflect its official catalog listing. This change makes it easier and safer for users to install the plugin by using a simpler command and linking directly to the reviewed catalog.

The klipper-print-watch plugin has been updated to fix issues where the printer might be moved unintentionally. This update ensures the plugin behaves more predictably and safely when monitoring your 3D printer.

A new "nowstamp" plugin has been added to the catalog. This plugin adds timestamps and message timing information to your conversations, helping the AI understand the context of time better, especially in longer chats or when using tools.

The SwitchBot control plugin has been updated with a fix that prevents scheduled actions from being skipped. This ensures that your automated SwitchBot devices will continue to operate as intended even after manual interactions.

The plugin catalog now includes an updated version of quotum, adding a new "Seals" tab to the hermes dashboard. This tab lets you view and verify on-chain records related to your seats, like bell receipts, directly within the dashboard.

A new plugin for calculating public holidays and working days has been added to the plugin catalog. This allows Hermes to accurately handle date calculations, like determining deadlines, by considering country-specific holidays.

A new plugin has been added to control Govee smart lights, allowing you to turn them on or off, change colors, and adjust brightness directly from Hermes. This makes it easier to integrate your Govee lighting into your smart home setup without needing a separate app.

The context window for the antigravity subscription plugin has been increased to improve its efficiency. This update also ensures compatibility with newer versions of Hermes.

The agent's build process for stable releases now correctly identifies version 0.21.6. This ensures that both technical checks and the final Windows application package accurately reflect the release version, preventing confusion and potential issues.

Developers can now see their plugin code changes reflected in the desktop application immediately, and the plugin doctor will alert you if your desktop plugin is out of sync. This makes developing plugins much smoother by ensuring your local edits are automatically used and providing clear feedback if they are not.

The way Hermes identifies and manages plugins has been simplified with a single system. This means installing, enabling, and controlling plugins is now more straightforward and less prone to errors, especially for plugins with multiple components.

Hermes can now display messages returned by plugins when a session ends, giving you direct feedback. This makes it easier for plugins to communicate important information or summaries to you without interrupting the conversation.

Added information about two new plugins, hermes-tenuo and frihet, to the plugin catalog. This update helps users discover and utilize more tools with Hermes.

When you enable a plugin through the interface, it no longer removes essential built-in tools. This ensures that all necessary tools remain available even after adding new plugins.

Commands that need approval but are running in an unattended mode will now be rejected immediately, instead of waiting for an approval that can never be given. This prevents runs from getting stuck when interacting with systems like webhooks or simplified APIs that cannot provide feedback.

This update ensures that each release attempt gets its own unique identifier for Nix packages and Docker images. This prevents conflicts and helps track down issues during the release process.

Docker images for the latest and stable versions of Hermes Agent will now automatically update to the most recently published release. This ensures you're always running the most up-to-date and secure version of the software without manual intervention.

Updates to Hermes are now much faster because the build process only recompiles what has changed. Additionally, when you install a specific version, it will now clone the necessary code only once, improving efficiency.

The `hermes model` command will now prompt for reasoning effort even if you select the same model from a different source. This ensures you always have the opportunity to adjust your reasoning settings after making a model choice.

This update corrects how Hermes Agent checks if the gateway service is running under s6. It now correctly reads the service's process ID, ensuring that stopping the gateway is properly recognized and handled, preventing unexpected restarts.

Docker images are now managed through the standard release process, ensuring stability and preventing unintended updates. This change removes an experimental feature that was promoting Docker images directly, which could have led to inconsistencies.

We've integrated a new tool to automatically check and fix our Python code, making it cleaner and more consistent. This helps prevent common coding errors before they are even committed.

Docker image builds are now successful again. The system now correctly checks if a Git repository exists before trying to install Git hooks, preventing build failures when building from source code that doesn't include Git information.

These changes prevent automated tests from failing due to temporary file access issues during app updates. This ensures the stability of the update process is accurately reported.

Termux builds now correctly use compatible versions of system libraries, preventing lengthy build failures. This ensures that the build process for Termux applications is faster and more reliable.

We've improved our code quality checks to catch more potential issues. This helps ensure the Hermes Agent code is cleaner and more robust.

The Hermes Agent now correctly handles tool calls from Copilot, preventing redundant or empty calls that could cause errors. This update ensures that file operations and other tasks are processed more reliably.

New scripts are available to easily create test versions of the Hermes Agent for Windows, macOS, and Linux. These scripts help developers quickly build and test the application locally without affecting official releases.

The Windows installer now correctly checks out only the specific version you want, just like the Linux installer. This ensures that when you install Hermes on Windows, you always get the exact commit you specified, making installations more reliable.

When you re-enable a plugin, its associated tools are now correctly added back to your saved list. This ensures that previously enabled tools from a plugin are recognized again after you turn the plugin back on, preventing the need to manually re-add them.

The `antigravity-oauth-plus` plugin has been removed from the catalog because it was too similar to existing plugins. This change helps ensure that the catalog is cleaner and easier to navigate.