Changelog

A new catalog entry for Monid has been added, making it easier to discover and use over 2,000 data endpoints from various providers. This allows agents to access a wide range of information and services through a single interface.

Skills that are added or removed during a conversation will now be correctly recognized by the model on every message. This ensures the agent always has access to the most up-to-date tools without needing to restart.

A new memory provider called optchat-memory has been added, offering an advanced way to store and recall past conversations. This allows the agent to access a much deeper and more organized history of interactions.

A new plugin allows Hermes to connect to a Meshtastic radio using a direct message. This enables Hermes to securely send and receive messages on the radio, but only from an approved list of devices for privacy.

Desktop updates on macOS will no longer get stuck when trying to update themselves. This fixes an issue where the update process would incorrectly think another update was already running, preventing it from completing.

The plugin now uses an updated image for its catalog listing and includes fixes for several rule patterns, improving their accuracy and performance. These changes ensure that certain dangerous command patterns are correctly identified and handled.

Hermes Desktop can now display live status and details about your IOWAP fleet, allowing you to manage and monitor your infrastructure directly within the application. This new feature makes it easier to see the health of your nodes, submit tasks, and track their progress.

The Hermes Agent can now directly process images and videos within a conversation, allowing it to understand visual content without needing to send it to external services. This improvement makes the agent faster and more efficient when dealing with visual information.

The plugin catalog now includes the "session-flow" plugin, which adds several user interface enhancements to the session sidebar. These improvements make it easier to organize, navigate, and manage your work sessions within the application.

The Hermes Agent now correctly handles special characters in repository descriptions, fixing a bug where they were previously garbled. This update also cleans up unnecessary code and improves error messages for better user experience.

A new plugin called Memory Shield has been added to control how the agent interacts with its memory and profile information. This helps prevent accidental data loss or unauthorized changes to your important notes and profile.

A new plugin has been added for Beam, allowing your agent to securely transfer files between various storage services and communicate in encrypted rooms. This integration gives the agent the same capabilities as a Beam user.

The information displayed for the hermes-ssh plugin in the catalog has been updated to reflect its current status. This ensures users see accurate installation instructions.

The God's Eye View plugin has been removed from the public catalog because its advertised embedded globe feature does not work within the Hermes Desktop SDK. This change prevents users from installing a plugin that doesn't function as expected.

Hermes now includes Memoria, a new memory provider that lets AI agents remember past conversations and details across sessions. This integration offers advanced memory management features like snapshots and rollbacks, allowing agents to recall facts and preferences more effectively.

The Discord TPS plugin has been updated to its latest version, primarily to correctly attribute its maintenance. This change ensures better organization within the plugin catalog without affecting how the plugin functions.

A new plugin, Hermes Adaptive Effort, has been added to the plugin catalog. This plugin allows Hermes to dynamically adjust its reasoning effort based on an external scoring system, providing more flexible and potentially efficient interactions.

The Hermes Agent now uses an updated version of the Feishu authentication plugin. This update improves error handling during sign-in and adds helpful logs to assist with initial setup.

Hermes can now search for Japanese government subsidies and receive weekly updates on new opportunities and upcoming deadlines. This feature helps users stay informed about available funding without needing to manually check multiple sources.

A new tool has been added to search and extract financial data from Japanese corporate disclosures filed with the EDINET system. This allows Hermes to access and process important financial information from Japanese companies.

Hermes can now convert text to speech using Speechify. This integration allows you to speak text aloud using different voices and audio formats, with synthesis handled by your Speechify account.

The Hermes Agent now uses an updated version of the Kimchi plugin. This update ensures better identification of Hermes Agent requests to the gateway and clarifies how to configure the plugin's base URL.

The subscription meter now shows a scrolling ticker of discounted models and improved display for OpenRouter's balance. This makes it easier to see your spending and available discounts.

The approval ledger plugin now organizes approval data by local calendar day, making it easier to see daily trends and identify days with many prompts or unanswered requests. This change helps users gain a clearer daily overview of approval activity within the agent.

The command log feature now tracks commands by day, showing how many sessions were used each day. This helps you understand your usage patterns over time.

The Hermes Agent can now use a more flexible and adaptable voice assistant, displaying its name dynamically and improving how it handles voice replies. This update also enhances the robustness and clarity of the voice assistant's underlying code.

The Telegram Dashboard plugin has been updated to a newer version. This update improves its ability to detect if the agent is properly loading its rules and managing its memory, and checks for new Hermes releases more frequently.

A new integration for LowRouter models has been added to Hermes Agent. This allows users to access a wider selection of models with larger context windows and view their credit balance in EUR.

We've improved the code quality of Hermes Agent by applying more automated style checks. This makes the code cleaner and easier for developers to maintain.

The Crew plugin has been updated to version 0.8.1, which ensures it works correctly with recent changes in the Hermes Agent. This update also refines its compatibility requirements for the Hermes Agent to version 0.21.5 or newer.

A new theme called "claude-code-theme" has been added, giving Hermes Desktop a look inspired by Claude Code with both light and dark options. This theme adjusts the appearance of various interface elements like chat bubbles and menus for a refreshed user experience.

The Hermes Agent now uses a newer version of NeMo Relay, which improves compatibility and stability. This update ensures that Hermes can take advantage of the latest features and bug fixes from the underlying Relay system.

The underlying system for generating suggestions has been updated to a new version. This update cleans up old files automatically, improves accuracy by only suggesting confident matches, and makes the system start faster.

Hermes can now remember information using a local wiki that you and the agent can edit together, making it easier to manage and recall important details. This new plugin keeps your data private by not making any network calls.

Community skills with inline shell commands are now safer by default, preventing them from running unexpectedly when nested, accessed through external directories, or when their security lock is unreadable. This change ensures that only trusted community skills execute their inline commands, providing better security for users.

A new community memory provider called Penny has been added, allowing Hermes to load core memory and recall private notes from local conversations. This enhances Hermes' ability to access and manage personal information within its chat history.

The Hermes Agent now avoids listing skills that cannot be installed, preventing wasted effort and potential errors for users. This update also ensures skills in differently named directories or single-file repositories are correctly identified.

The project now automatically checks code quality before commits, ensuring fewer errors. Docker and shell script linting have also been streamlined, making the build process faster.

Hermes now defaults to following official stable releases instead of the development branch for updates. This means updates will be more predictable and reliable, aligning with published versions.

The Alan's Way plugin has been updated to version 0.21.0. This update improves how it manages and installs necessary software like web browsers and display servers, and enhances its connection and configuration settings for a more robust user experience.

The Commands tab now intelligently suggests commands based on what you type, making it easier to find what you need without needing network access. This update also refines how commands are matched and displayed, ensuring a smoother user experience.

A new desktop-only plugin has been added to track your token usage and estimated costs in real-time, including savings from caching and a daily breakdown. This feature helps you understand your spending, especially for services that don't publicly share pricing.

A harmless comment after a command no longer incorrectly blocks it. This improves the accuracy of our safety checks for potentially destructive operations.

Hermes Agent now correctly handles cases where the source code is checked out beyond the latest release, preventing unintended downgrades. This ensures that if the project cannot verify the exact relationship between the current code and the latest release, it will not incorrectly revert to an older version.

You can now choose to get stable updates or updates from every commit directly in the app's About section if you installed Hermes from its source code. This makes it easier for developers to manage which version of Hermes they are running.

A new tool has been added to verify the Jet Browser runtime, ensuring its startup and functionality are consistent. This helps guarantee the reliability and security of the browser when used with Hermes.

We've added and updated integrations for Salesforce Chatter, Liquid Inference, and Deepgram voice. These updates improve how the agent interacts with these services, enhancing data privacy and ensuring better compatibility.

The fish-audio plugin has been updated to version 1.3.2 and now requires Hermes version 0.21.6 or newer. This update ensures compatibility with newer features in Hermes that allow for more efficient audio streaming.

A new memory provider has been added that allows Hermes to store conversations as searchable memories in Qdrant. This feature makes your AI's past interactions more durable and easier to recall by extracting key information from each conversation turn.

The web search functionality has been updated to a newer version. This brings smarter search routing and faster results when one search service isn't working well.

The community plugin for managing Kanban boards and Gantt charts has been updated to version 1.5.0. This update improves how task details are displayed, including attachments, and fixes an issue with finding the default board location.

The Hermes Agent now correctly tracks the specific type of fallback used for summarization. This update also fixes several issues related to how the agent reports its attempts, ensuring more accurate data collection and analysis.

Hermes Agent now correctly sends back the model's thinking process when using Ollama Cloud tools. This ensures that the model's reasoning is preserved between tool calls, preventing users from losing the chain of thought during complex operations.

The Japanese e-government law plugin has been updated to a new version. This update adds a new feature that can automatically monitor weekly amendments to Japanese laws.

A new tool, jp-kokkai, has been added to help you find and track information about meetings from the National Diet Library. This means Hermes can now search for meeting details and alert you to new speech recordings, providing official links without storing or logging any speech text.

A new tool is available that can convert local files into Markdown format. This allows Hermes to process documents and extract information from them.

This update makes the process of managing conversation history more reliable by preventing accidental data loss during compression and by providing clearer records of why and how compression occurs. It also ensures that stalled compression operations don't negatively impact other parts of the system.

The Hermes Agent now correctly uses your GitHub token when checking for updates, preventing errors caused by reaching the anonymous request limit. If a rate limit is encountered, it will be clearly reported instead of incorrectly stating that no stable release exists.

The Model Router plugin is now available in the community catalog. This update allows users to better manage how different AI models are used for various tasks.

The plugin catalog has been updated to a new version that adds a daily summary of auxiliary LLM calls, making it easier to spot long-running sessions. This update also ensures that logs are correctly read even if they include special characters, improving data reliability.

The stream-speed plugin now tracks streaming performance by day, making it easier to spot when a provider started performing poorly. It also now correctly handles data saved with special characters from Windows, ensuring better compatibility.

Plugins can now ask Hermes to handle authentication requests to OpenAI services, preventing them from directly managing sensitive user tokens and avoiding potential sign-out issues. This change ensures that only Hermes interacts with the token refresh process, making plugins more secure and reliable.

This update fixes an issue where the Nous Portal might incorrectly repeat information it has already processed. This ensures the portal provides a clearer and more accurate experience by preventing redundant content displays.

The Hermes Agent has been updated to a newer version of the Agora plugin. This change fixes a bug where projects could get stuck and not complete, by ensuring that the plugin has access to the necessary project files. It also improves test isolation to prevent tests from accidentally writing to your personal project files.

The Holographic memory provider has moved to a new home and is now available as a plugin. This change ensures continued support and improvements for this feature.

The tool used to manage your plugins has been updated to fix a bug where certain commands wouldn't work if you specified options like `--read-only` before them. This change ensures these options now work correctly, preventing errors for users.

A new plugin is available that shows a notification badge on the Hermes app icon for Windows users when a new message arrives and the app is minimized. This helps you keep track of unread messages without needing to actively check the application.

The Gmail plugin has been updated to version 1.0.16, introducing a new master switch to control all confirmation dialogs, making it easier to manage actions in Gmail. This update simplifies the user experience by allowing a single setting to skip review prompts for various actions.

Hermes Agent's update and doctor commands are now much faster, especially for users with many projects. The footprint notice no longer unnecessarily runs Git commands for each project, saving significant time.

End-to-end tests are now correctly configured to test the latest changes in the main development version of Hermes, rather than an older stable version. This ensures that updates and installations are tested against the most recent code, preventing unexpected failures.

Plugins now securely receive credentials directly from Hermes, preventing them from accessing sensitive information stored in external files or directly managing tokens. This change enhances security by ensuring plugins only use credentials managed by Hermes, aligning with best practices for handling sensitive data.

Hermes Agent now supports Italian language translations for its user interface. This update allows users to switch Hermes Agent to Italian if they prefer.

The official plugins for Home Assistant, Spotify, and Claude DirectSDK have been moved to a single new repository. This change makes it easier to manage these plugins and ensures they continue to work seamlessly with Hermes Agent.

Documentation links for popular plugins have been updated to the new central repository, making it easier to find and use the official add-ons. This change ensures that users are directed to the correct location for these plugins, improving discoverability and maintenance.

The project's code formatting has been automatically improved by a new workflow. This helps keep the codebase clean and consistent without manual effort.

The update dialog now clearly states which update channel you are using and provides a quick link to change it in the settings. This makes it easier to understand and manage how Hermes Agent updates.

This update automatically fixes code formatting and linting issues to ensure consistency and quality in the project. This makes the code cleaner and easier for developers to understand and maintain.

The description for the Qdrant plugin has been corrected to more accurately reflect how it logs search queries. This change clarifies the plugin's behavior without altering its functionality.