v0.21.0

Hermes Agent v0.21.0

Minor release (The Pantheon Release): Bot Mode built into the desktop app with named agent avatars and group chats; hermes peer for bot-to-bot DMs across profiles and gateways; cron jobs gain persistent memory, continuity and durable notepads; live subagent steering with JSON-schema output validation; an MCP command center with hermes:// deep links; a CLI power wave (command palette, richer /model and /status, status-bar metrics, terminal pets); six new providers; the agent drives the desktop browser; and security hardening for instruction files, redaction, and Windows approvals. Rolls up the v0.20.1–v0.20.6 patch windows.

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v0.20.6

Hermes Agent v0.20.6

Patch release: ~525 PRs and ~1,313 commits since v0.20.5. Consent-gated real-profile browsing lets the agent browse as you with your real logins; the desktop Browser gets its own OS window plus a managed SSH remote-update engine; the remote MCP catalog grows past 50 live-verified vendor servers; web_search/web_extract gain TTL result caching; lean-tail compression becomes the default; tool_search learns multi-query searches with stemming; stored secrets can opt into OS-keychain encryption; and new models land across the pickers (GLM-5.3-Flash, MiniMax M3 free, MiniMax H3 Max video).

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v0.20.5

Hermes Agent v0.20.5

Patch release: ~323 PRs and ~746 commits since v0.20.4. Bot Mode group chats finally accept files (PDF/image drag & drop), old conversations fold into one-line summaries, and blob avatars arrive; hermes worktree list/prune safely reclaims accumulated worktrees and merged branches; hermes update --plan plus structured update receipts make upgrades auditable; cron jobs gain persistent memory and per-job reasoning effort; and opencode-free becomes a truly keyless free model in the /model picker.

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v0.20.4

Hermes Agent v0.20.4

Patch release: ~74 PRs and ~146 commits since v0.20.3. A macOS Glass translucency mode you can actually read through, a permanently tabbed SESSIONS|BOTS sidebar with per-bot hide/unhide, advisory NVIDIA SkillEvaluator scans on skill installs, cron media-send hardening, SessionDB contention fixes, an honest hermes update, and native Kanban notifications.

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v0.20.3

Hermes Agent v0.20.3

Patch release: ~125 PRs and ~250 commits since v0.20.2. The cron scheduler learns to heal itself (EMFILE, stale claims, wedged jobs, misfire catch-up), MCP speaks the 2026-07-28 stateless protocol, CommandCode joins as a first-class provider, and /worktree + /rollback make agent edits reversible.

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v0.20.2

Hermes Agent v0.20.2

Patch release: ~397 PRs and 967 commits since v0.20.1. Desktop gains a multi-connection registry (local, remote gateways, Hermes Cloud, SSH), MCP gets hermes:// one-click installs and background health checks, terminal breadcrumbs make -c per-terminal, and image upscaling becomes opt-in.

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v0.20.0

Hermes Agent v0.20.0 — The Herald Release

Real-time conversational voice with barge-in. On-device wake words, hands-free control. Voice on every platform — WhatsApp, Feishu, DingTalk, LINE, QQ, WeChat. Trusted research with grounded citations and fact-checking. Agent-to-Agent protocol A2A v1.0. Signed outbound webhooks. Desktop platform wave — Artifacts, plugin SDK, quick-entry, multi-window. CLI power commands: !shell, /init, /diff, /context, /focus. Tool self-recovery. Smarter context compression. Cold start ~1.8s. 650+ contributors.

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v0.19.0

Hermes Agent v0.19.0 — The Quicksilver Release

Cold-start latency cut by 80% to 0.9s. Reasoning streaming live by default. Smart approvals with LLM-based command review. Bitwarden & 1Password secret sources. Live subagent transcripts with durable background delegation. Delivery-obligation ledger for crash-proof responses. Profile-based message routing. GPT-5.6, grok-4.5, kimi-k3, claude-sonnet-5 support. Desktop 20+ PR speed overhaul. Terminal billing via /subscription and /topup.

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v0.18.0

Hermes Agent v0.18.0 — The Judgment Release

100% P0/P1 resolved (496 issues + 196 PRs). Mixture-of-Agents as a first-class pickable model with live-streamed reasoning per reference model. Agent self-verification with /goal completion contracts and pre_verify hooks. /learn skill distillation, /journey memory timeline, background fan-out subagents, desktop coding Projects, scale-to-zero gateway with drain coordination, Google Vertex AI native OAuth2 support, and 10 messaging platform updates.

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