The stream keeps trickling and never finishes: an opt-in total lifetime cap for one response
The stale-stream detector measures the gap between chunks and resets on every chunk, so a stream that keeps sending data but never finishes is never cut and the turn just sits there. agent.stream_max_lifetime adds a wall-clock cap per streaming attempt — off by default, on when you ask for it.
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Hermes Mobile Beta Is Out: What the iOS and Android Apps Really Do (and Where They Still Break)
Nous Research opened an official Hermes Mobile beta at NousCon 2026 — iOS via TestFlight, Android via Firebase. The phone is only a remote control, the two invite links are in rough shape right now, and here is exactly what works in build 1.0.0.
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Same Work, Twice the Window: Why Your Claude Max Quota Drains Faster Under Hermes
Claude Code stamps a caller name into every request, and sdk-* callers are metered at roughly double weight. After the official plugin started running as hermes-agent, the same $2.19 of work drew 7% of the five-hour window instead of 12%.
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Three Agents in a Room, Only Yours Keeps Talking: Per-Room Silence in Hermes
In a multi-agent room the model decides this turn needs no reply — and Hermes posts a visible warning anyway. The new allow_silence override lets named rooms stay quiet while every other chat keeps its safety net.
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Give Hermes a Screen: Wiring Sai Computer-Use Into Your Agent
Some systems only have a login page and forms, never an API. Sai by Simular runs those tasks on a cloud computer by seeing the screen and clicking, and it installs from the Hermes plugin catalog in two commands.
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Your Agent Only Sees a Filename: Swapping Hermes Speech-to-Text to Qwen
Voice notes are the most common input an agent ignores. The community transcription-dashscope plugin points Hermes STT at Alibaba Qwen-Audio-ASR, so group voice messages become text and dictation types as you speak.
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Stop squinting at a lone (1): Hermes now flashes the tab, the taskbar and your notifications
You are in another tab writing code, Hermes is waiting for you to approve a command, and all the tab title offers is a tiny (1). Two hours later the whole thing is still stuck. Now it flashes the title, dots the favicon amber, flashes the taskbar or Dock, and — once you allow it — sends a real browser notification that opens the chat on click.
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Stuck at boot: two self-deadlocks in Hermes, and how they were found
You restart the gateway, the terminal stops at Gateway starting: deadline, the desktop app keeps reporting Gateway inaccessible, and the next launchd restart wedges in exactly the same place. That is not slow — it is a deadlock. Two real cases: a nested read context inside the startup sweep, and reading config before config can be read.
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Your local model server is down and Hermes asks you to sign in: that mix-up is fixed
You spent a flight coding against a local Qwen, then open the Webapp the next day and get "Let's get you setup… Nous Portal / I have an API key". Nothing was lost — the local server simply was not running, and the old build treated every "cannot resolve the model" failure as "nothing is configured".
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Moving the secret caches to the profile root: the sandbox hole a folder rename could open
You wire Hermes to Bitwarden, the cache holds plaintext keys, and the sandbox marks that cache path as denied — so you assume it is protected. Except the file lived in a folder the agent can rename: rename cache/ and the hidden file travels with it. Hermes just moved four credential caches to the top of the profile home.
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Should a missed cron run catch up? grace_minutes answers per job
Close the laptop for two hours and the daily report fires twice; or nothing catches up and you lose a day of data. Hermes runs a missed cron occurrence late only inside a catch-up window — half the period, clamped to 2 minutes–2 hours — and a job can now override it outright.
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Move code execution off your laptop: persistent sandboxes and parallel batches with Hermes + Flame
Data work and multi-candidate validation hit two walls: context budget and local compute. The hermes-flamepy plugin adds sandbox and session tools that submit code to a Flame cluster — one keeps /tmp files across calls, the other runs up to 64 independent snippets in parallel.
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The terminal backend was pinned — so why did Hermes still run on the host?
An administrator pins terminal.backend to docker in /etc/hermes/config.yaml, yet every new session still runs the profile’s own local backend. The per-turn terminal scope simply never read the managed layer. Plus the two .env traps that hid behind it.
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You Edited SOUL.md — Why Your Running Session Still Follows the Old Rules
Hermes now has sessions refresh-prompts: rebuild a live session's system prompt from the latest SOUL.md, skills and context files on its next turn — no /new, no lost history.
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Command Not Found in the Agent's Terminal: How Hermes Fixed a PATH Reset by Login Shells
A login shell rewrites PATH to a fixed set of directories, so ~/.local/bin, /opt/hermes/bin and your nvm shims silently disappear. Hermes now re-appends the dropped directories in their original order.
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You Test-Fired It Once and the Reminder Never Came: Manual Cron Runs Are Now an Extra Fire
A manual cron run used to spend the job's only slot — a test-fired one-shot retired on the spot. Now a run-now is an extra fire: the scheduled run still happens and the repeat budget is untouched.
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