The latest AI news and updates of Nous Research — Open-source AI research lab; develops the Hermes family of open language models and the Hermes Agent. Covering Nous Research's latest product updates, launches, and company news from the past 90 days.
Nous ResearchSep 10Nous Research updated Hermes Agent to display detailed, live information on all subagent activities. The update adds manual steering and stopping controls for subagents directly within the CLI and Desktop Application. These features provide visibility into parallel worker tasks and allow for immediate intervention during autonomous execution.
Nous ResearchSep 8Nous Research integrated its Hermes agent into Omarchy, DHH's Arch-based agentic Linux distribution. The Hermes desktop app is installable from the AI menu, or Hermes functions as the default terminal agent. Omarchy themes now apply automatically to the Hermes desktop app, TUI, and CLI, providing a unified visual experience across the system.
Nous ResearchSep 5Nous Research now offers OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model through the Nous Portal. The platform provides access to the model at a 20% discount. The portal interface supports the model for agentic tasks, providing a cost-reduced path to frontier capabilities.
Nous ResearchSep 3Nous Research updated Hermes Desktop to automate local model configuration. The app now detects hardware, selects the optimal model build, downloads it, and configures the runtime in a single click. This flow is available during initial onboarding or via the Providers section in Settings, enabling private, offline model execution without manual runtime or context management.
Nous ResearchSep 2Nous Research updated Hermes Agent v0.21.0 with persistent multi-gateway connections for the desktop app. This feature enables simultaneous connections to any combination of remote Hermes Cloud instances or local agents. The desktop interface now surfaces every bot and chat across all connected gateways in a single view, centralizing management for distributed agent deployments.
Nous ResearchAug 31Nous Research launched Hermes Agent v0.21.0, introducing Bot Mode to enable a society of named agents with group chats and bot-to-bot communication. The release adds persistent memory for cron jobs, live subagent steering, and an integrated MCP command center. It also expands model support and enables the agent to directly drive the desktop browser.
Nous ResearchAug 30Nous Research added an official Box skill to Hermes Agent, which acts as the user to manage files, versions, and metadata in bulk. The skill uses Box AI for content analysis, keeping source files within Box’s governed environment. It supports searching, extracting document data, and querying the cloud file system directly through the agent.
Nous ResearchAug 27Nous Research updated Hermes Agent with real-profile browsing, allowing the agent to act with a user's existing logins and cookies. The feature creates a managed snapshot of the active browser profile, enabling authenticated web interaction. This mode is consent-gated, off by default, and automatically deletes the snapshot when disabled to ensure credential security.
Nous ResearchAug 27Nous Research added 44 new connections to the Hermes Agent built-in MCP Connectors Catalog, enabling one-click setup for services like Cloudflare, Datadog, Metabase, GitLab, Railway, and DeepWiki within the Hermes Desktop App. The update includes a Tool Search feature that prevents activated connectors from consuming context window space during agent tasks.
Nous ResearchAug 22Nous Research makes the Ox Alpha model available for free via the Nous Portal for a limited time. The platform supports a capacity of one quadrillion tokens per day. This access provides resources for reasoning and coding workloads through the portal interface.
Nous ResearchAug 22Nous Research launched Hermes Cloud, an always-on remote environment for Hermes Agent that maintains agent activity when local devices are offline. The platform supports bot mode, custom model connections, and self-improving execution. It provides a cost-efficient infrastructure for running multiple agent instances 24/7 at a fraction of standard monthly subscription costs.
Nous ResearchAug 22Hermes Agent now runs NVIDIA's SkillEvaluator on skill installs to detect PII, leaked secrets, Unicode smuggling, licensing, and security issues before confirmation. This integration provides an advisory scan of file-line findings during the installation flow. Nous Research also applied these checks to its own bundled skills, identifying and resolving issues in 11 of them.
Nous ResearchAug 22Nous Research introduced Bot Mode for Hermes Desktop, transforming agent profiles into specialized, named bots. Each bot maintains its own role, model, memory, skills, and avatar. These bots operate independently, support custom model selection, and communicate directly with one another to coordinate complex tasks.
Nous ResearchAug 15Nous Research added a /loop slash command to Hermes Agent, enabling recurring prompt execution within active sessions. The feature supports fixed intervals or a self-paced mode that automatically adjusts cadence based on output changes. It includes configurable stop conditions like task completion, run counts, or specific evidence-based criteria to manage token usage during unattended monitoring tasks.
Nous ResearchAug 13Nous Research is offering free access to Meituan’s LongCat-2.0 model on the Nous Portal for one week. This 1.6-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model features a native 1-million-token context window and is optimized for agentic coding. It achieves a 70.8 score on Terminal-Bench 2.1, supporting the autonomous execution of repository-level software engineering tasks.
Nous ResearchAug 12Nous Research updated Hermes Agent to support portable, shareable profiles. The new /export command saves a profile as a single file containing skills, memory, persona, crons, plugins, settings, and desktop layouts, while automatically stripping sensitive credentials. The /import command restores these profiles on new machines or shared setups, enabling consistent agent configurations across environments.
Nous ResearchAug 10Nous Research updated Hermes Agent with a new Browser Use mode that replaces twelve individual browser tools with a single script-driven harness. Powered by the Browser Use CLI 3.0, this update allows the agent to execute web tasks via scripts rather than per-click tool calls, reducing token consumption by 48–66% without sacrificing accuracy.
Nous ResearchAug 10Nous Research is extending its 90% discount on the DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 model for an additional three days. The promotion remains available through the Nous Portal, providing continued access to the model at the reduced rate.
Nous ResearchAug 2Nous Research, in partnership with Novita Labs, is offering DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 at a 90% discount on the Nous Portal for the next seven days. The model is priced to be over 1000x cheaper than Anthropic’s Fable 5 on comparable tasks, while outperforming it on the Terminal-Bench 2.1 benchmark.
Nous ResearchJul 31Nous Research released the Hermes Desktop Plugin SDK for building native app extensions. The SDK supports adding pages, sidebar navigation, hotkeys, and status bar items through single ESM files without a build step. The company also shipped its first official plugin, a desktop-native Kanban board that provides persistent task management directly within the agent workspace.
Nous ResearchJul 31Nous Research now offers free access to the Black Forest Labs FLUX 3 Preview for all Portal users, including the free tier. This update removes the previous subscription requirement for the 48-hour preview period. The model is available for testing directly through the Hermes Agent platform without a paid account.
Nous ResearchJul 30Nous Research makes a preview of Black Forest Labs’ FLUX 3 model available on the Hermes Agent platform for the next 48 hours. The integration is free for paid Portal subscribers and includes a short film contest running until August 1. The contest awards generation credits and merchandise to the top three film entries submitted by the deadline.
Nous ResearchJul 30Nous Research Hermes Agent now integrates with Buzz, Block's open-source, self-hostable workspace built on Nostr. The integration offers three connection paths: local runtime via Buzz Desktop, a relay bridge for hosted agent identities, or a native gateway platform. The native gateway enables full Hermes functionality, including memory, skills, approvals, and cron delivery, within shared messaging channels.
Nous ResearchJul 29Nous Research added hands-free voice activation to Hermes Agent for the CLI, TUI, and desktop app. The feature uses local, off-by-default detection to listen for a wake word, which triggers a new session and captures spoken commands. The system supports multiple detection engines, including openWakeWord and sherpa, and allows custom wake phrases for personalized control.
Nous ResearchJul 28Nous Research partnered with OpenRouter to offer a 50% discount on GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna models through the Nous Portal. This limited-time promotion applies to these specific models, while all other models available on the portal remain at a 20% discount.
Nous ResearchJul 24Nous Research added a credential firewall to Hermes Agent that replaces real API keys inside Docker sandboxes with opaque proxy tokens. A local host-side proxy swaps these tokens for real credentials at the network boundary. This ensures that tokens stolen from a compromised sandbox are useless elsewhere, as they only function behind the configured trusted proxy boundary.
Nous ResearchJul 23Nous Research released an optional tldraw-offline skill for Hermes Agent. The skill reads and edits open canvases in the tldraw desktop application and embeds JavaScript scripts into the file. These scripts provide drawings with durable, interactive behavior, including functional buttons and persistent state that remain active when the file is reloaded.
Nous ResearchJul 23Nous Research is offering a 20% discount on all models available through the Nous Portal for a limited time. This promotion applies to the entire model catalog, including frontier models, and extends to both new sign-ups and existing users. The discount applies directly to token costs for current customers.
Nous ResearchJul 20Nous Research released Hermes Agent v0.19.0, cutting time-to-first-token by 80% to 0.9 seconds. The update adds password manager integration for Bitwarden and 1Password, smart LLM-based command approvals, and terminal-based subscription management. It also introduces support for GPT-5.6, grok-4.5, and Claude Fable 5, alongside a durable delivery ledger that prevents lost responses during gateway crashes.
Nous ResearchJul 17Nous Research released an optional companion skill for Hermes Agent that connects to Epic’s official Unreal Engine MCP server. The skill enables the agent to build and modify 3D scenes from plain-English prompts by safely sequencing tool calls and verifying results visually. It requires Unreal Editor 5.8 and is available for installation via the Hermes CLI.
Nous ResearchJul 9Nous Research has integrated support for OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 into the Hermes Agent framework. This update allows the agent to utilize the model for autonomous tasks directly through the Nous Portal.
Nous ResearchJul 8Nous Research launches managed cloud hosting for Hermes Agent, featuring one-click deployment and 60-second setup. The service provides always-on operation, persistent memory, and multi-channel connectivity across platforms like Slack and Telegram. Organizational features include granular access controls, unified billing, and isolated sandboxes for parallel subagent execution.
Nous ResearchJul 7Nous Research updated Hermes Agent to support pulling secrets from multiple vaults simultaneously. The update adds 1Password as a built-in provider alongside Bitwarden. A new vault plugin API supports custom secret manager integration, resolving credentials from external sources like OS keystores or custom scripts before process startup.
Nous ResearchJul 7Nous Research integrated Tencent's new Hy3 model into its Portal, offering free access for the next two weeks. The model is optimized for agentic workflows, prioritizing tool-calling reliability and reasoning for complex, multi-step tasks.
Nous ResearchJul 1Nous Research released Hermes Agent v0.18.0, introducing Mixture-of-Agents as a selectable model and a /learn command for distilling reusable skills. The update adds a memory graph for visualizing agent knowledge, background subagent fan-out, and first-class coding Projects on the desktop. It also integrates Google Vertex AI and completes a clean sweep of all critical P0 and P1 backlog issues.
Nous ResearchJun 30Nous Research optimized Hermes Agent web scraping backends to deliver content directly to the agent, achieving up to 60x faster performance and 49x lower costs. The update saves large pages locally and processes them through chunked summarization, maintaining content quality while reducing token usage and latency during autonomous web research tasks.
Nous ResearchJun 28Nous Research now exposes Mixture of Agents presets as virtual models in Hermes Agent. These presets combine multiple models to outperform Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 by 8% and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 by 11% on the HermesBench benchmark. The configuration runs reference models in parallel, using an aggregator to generate final responses while maintaining full agent loop capabilities.
Nous ResearchJun 24Nous Research launched a creative-ideation skill for Hermes Agent that routes prompts through 22 creative methodologies, including Oblique Strategies and TRIZ. The skill uses a 4-step procedure to match methods to the user's project phase and domain, enforcing anti-slop rules that require concrete mechanisms and at least one buildable idea per response.
Nous ResearchJun 23Nous Research launched a learn command for Hermes Agent that ingests directories of source material like code, manuals, and PDFs. The agent distills this information into structured, verifiable skills that follow a progressive disclosure pattern to conserve tokens. These skills are automatically available as slash commands for the agent to invoke on demand during future tasks.
Nous ResearchJun 22Nous Research expanded the Hermes Agent computer use capability to Windows and Linux, joining existing macOS support. The agent drives desktop interfaces by clicking, typing, and scrolling in the background without stealing focus. This integration uses the open-source cua-driver and works with any tool-capable model, including Claude, GPT, Gemini, and local open-weight models.
Nous ResearchJun 20Hermes Agent now has a Blank Slate setup mode that initializes with only a provider, model, file operations, and terminal — all other tools disabled by default. Rather than trimming down a Quick or Full setup, custom agent builds start from scratch with manual opt-in for each added capability.
Nous ResearchJun 19Nous Research launched Hermes Agent v0.17.0, adding native iMessage and WhatsApp Business Cloud integrations alongside background subagent support. The update introduces Automation Blueprints for scheduling tasks, an Unreal Engine 5.8 MCP server, and image-to-image editing. The desktop app now features rebindable shortcuts, live watch-windows for subagents, and support for VS Code Marketplace themes.
Nous ResearchJun 18Nous Research launched Teams for the Nous Portal, providing organizations with a shared pool of credits and centralized billing. The update introduces a Spend Intelligence dashboard for granular usage visibility and per-member spending caps. Multi-team membership supports switching between organizations while drawing from a single credit balance.
Nous ResearchJun 16Nous Research partnered with Stripe to add payment capabilities to Hermes Agent. The update introduces three optional skills: stripe-link-cli for web purchases, mpp-agent for pay-per-call APIs, and stripe-projects for SaaS provisioning. These skills include built-in safety guardrails like configurable human approval gates and credential cleanup, ensuring primary credentials remain outside agent transcripts during autonomous transactions.
Nous ResearchJun 15Nous Research launched a production-grade WhatsApp Business Cloud integration for Hermes Agent. The update enables autonomous agents to operate on business phone numbers via Meta's official API, supporting media and voice messages, read receipts, typing indicators, and interactive approval buttons. Setup is handled through a guided wizard that configures webhooks and credentials for stable, professional-grade messaging.
Nous ResearchJun 15Nous Research launched Automation Blueprints for Hermes Agent, turning cron jobs into clickable, fillable, conversational workflows. The feature supports scheduled tasks, GitHub event triggers, and API webhooks, delivering results to platforms like Slack, Discord, and Telegram. It includes a silent notification pattern to suppress alerts on quiet runs and works with any AI model.
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