Hermes Agent Updates
Easy Understand Hermes Agent
Easy-to-understand updates and tutorials for Hermes Agent, from beginner to pro.
📚 Official Tutorial Series
Chapter-by-chapter tutorials based on the official docs.
Welcome to the Easiest Install You'll Ever Do
Tutorial 1: Installing Hermes — Easier Than You Think — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Your First AI Conversation in 5 Minutes
Tutorial 2: Your First AI Conversation in 5 Minutes — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Tutorial 3: Learning Path — Your Roadmap to Mastery
Tutorial 3: Learning Path — Your Roadmap to Mastery — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
What’s New in This Tutorial?
Tutorial 4: Updating & Uninstalling Hermes — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Tutorial 5: Command Line Basics
Tutorial 5: Command Line Basics — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Tutorial 6: TUI — A Better Terminal Experience
Tutorial 6: TUI — A Better Terminal Experience — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Welcome to Your Agent's Home Base: `~/.hermes/`
Tutorial 7: Configuration Files — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Tutorial 8: Session Management
Tutorial 8: Session Management — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Tutorial 9: Security Settings
Tutorial 9: Security Settings — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Tutorial 10: Checkpoints — AI's Undo Button
Tutorial 10: Checkpoints — AI's Undo Button — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
🗓️ Version History (Past Year)
Every release of the past year, newest first.
Your AI Sidekick, Now More Rock-Solid
Hermes v2026.8.3 update: easy-to-understand summary of new features
Version Highlights
Hermes v2026.8.3 update: easy-to-understand summary of new features
Version Info
Hermes v2026.8.3 update: easy-to-understand summary of new features
Version Information
Hermes v2026.8.3 update: easy-to-understand summary of new features
Version Information
Hermes v2026.8.19 explained: a simple breakdown of what's new and improved in this release.
Version Information
Hermes v2026.8.3 update: easy-to-understand summary of new features
Hermes Agent patches the database nightmare that kept breaking your chats
Hermes v2026.9.11 update: the database-stability fixes and everything else that changed in this release, explained in plain language.
Version Information
Hermes v2026.9.14 update: what changed in this release, explained in plain language.
🚀 Official Roadmap
Hermes Roadmap: Cron Will Evolve into Agentic Scheduled Jobs
Hermes official roadmap part 3: how cron upgrades from a simple timer into a thinking task system.
Hermes Roadmap: Making AI Memory Visible and Controllable
Hermes official roadmap part 5: memory inspection and context governance — see, control, and audit what the agent remembers.
Hermes Roadmap (Community): Letting Multiple Sessions Collaborate
Hermes official roadmap part 9: a community proposal to end session silos — shared context and direct messaging between sessions.
Hermes Roadmap: Structured Observability for Agent Runs
Hermes official roadmap part 8: a black box for every agent run — latency, cost, and failure reasons, all inspectable.
Hermes Roadmap Overview: The 12 Directions Announced by the Official Team
Hermes official roadmap part 2: all 12 roadmap directions announced on 2026-05-31, explained in plain language.
Hermes Roadmap: A Permissions and Security Policy Model for AI
Hermes official roadmap part 4: adding permission gates to tools, plugins, files, and network access.
Hermes Roadmap: Plugins Will Become Installable Apps
Hermes official roadmap part 6: plugins with permission declarations, settings panels, and health checks.
Hermes Roadmap: Making the Terminal the Flagship Experience
Hermes official roadmap part 7: real-time tool timelines, session maps, and a flight recorder for the TUI.
Hermes Roadmap — What's Coming Next (Official)
The official Hermes Agent roadmap in plain English: desktop tapbacks, the OpenAI-compatible API server, streaming responses, and what they mean.
More Articles
Hermes Update: What's New in v0.20.2
Hermes Agent v0.20.2 patch release: 397 PRs, 967 commits hardening the desktop app, gateway, and CLI.
A2A Ecosystem Interop: AI Agents from Different Frameworks Can Finally Call Each Other
Hermes Messaging Platform Integration, Part 41: How the A2A Open Protocol Connects Agents Across Frameworks.
A2A's Future Directions: Agents Are Planning to Form a Local Area Network
Hermes Messaging Platform Integration, Part 42: Six Future Directions for A2A Proposed by the Community.
The A2A Long-Task Mystery: Why Jobs Over Two Minutes Keep Failing
Hermes Messaging Platform Integration, Part 38: Three Causes of A2A Long-Running Task Timeouts and How to Fix Them.
A2A Multi-Turn Conversations: How AI Chat Histories Get Stitched Together
Hermes Messaging Platform Integration, Part 39: A2A ContextId Multi-Turn Dialogue Mechanism and Evolution Fixes.
The Birth of A2A: How Hermes Learned to Call Other AIs
Hermes Messaging Platform Integration, Part 36: The Birth of A2A — From Community Wish to Official Release.
A2A Security Mechanisms: The Access Control System for Agent-to-Agent Trust
Hermes Messaging Platform Integration, Part 37: A2A's Four Lines of Security Defense and Community-Driven Fixes in Practice.
A2A Two-Machine Deployment: Delegate Tasks Between Hermes Agents on Two Computers
Hermes Messaging Platform Integration, Part 40: A2A Cross-Machine Deployment Steps and Real-World Pitfalls.
Give AI a Dedicated Email
Give AI a Dedicated Email — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Automate Anything with Cron
Automate Everything with Cron — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Automation Blueprints — Ready-Made Templates
Automation Blueprints — Ready-Made Templates — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Connect AWS Bedrock
Connect AWS Bedrock — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Hermes Azure Foundry — One Provider, Any Model
Point Hermes Agent at Microsoft Foundry (Azure AI): one provider for many models, one-command setup, and a first example run.
Script-Only Cron Jobs: Automate Without Burning Tokens
Script-Only Cron Jobs — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Level Up Your Cron Game: 5 Automation Patterns You Can Use Today
Cron Troubleshooting Guide — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Build a Daily Briefing Bot
Build a Daily Briefing Bot — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Desktop Native Sign-In: A Smarter Way to Log In
Desktop Native Sign-In — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
GitHub PR Review Bot
GitHub PR Review Bot — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Connect Google Gemini
Connect Google Gemini — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Hermes Vertex AI Setup: Credentials & Config
Hermes Vertex AI setup: VERTEX_CREDENTIALS_PATH in ~/.hermes/.env, project_id + region under vertex: in config.yaml. Runs Gemini on GCP, no API key.
Run Local LLMs on Mac
Run Local LLMs on Mac — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Run Hermes with Ollama for Free
Run Hermes with Ollama for Free — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Migrate from OpenClaw
Migrate from OpenClaw — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
MiniMax OAuth Integration
MiniMax OAuth Integration — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Register a Microsoft Graph App
Register a Microsoft Graph App — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
How to Run Hermes with Nous Portal
Use Hermes Agent with Nous Portal — a simple setup guide covering sign-in, models, and cloud sync.
SSH Remote OAuth Sign-In
SSH Remote OAuth Sign-In — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Pipe Script Output to Chat
Pipe Script Output to Chat — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Hermes Python Library: Script Your AI Agent in Code
Use Hermes Agent from Python — write scripts that call your agent, run tools, and automate workflows.
Team Telegram Assistant
Team Telegram Assistant — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Teams Meeting Pipeline: Keeping Your Meeting Bot Alive
Teams Meeting Pipeline — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Best Practices — 10 Tips
Best Practices — 10 Tips — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Talk to AI with Voice Mode
Talk to AI with Voice Mode — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Tools & Toolsets — AI's Hands
Tools & Toolsets — AI's Hands — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Plugins — Give Hermes New Superpowers Without Touching Core Code
Built-in Plugins — Ready-to-Use Enhancements — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs (updated 2026-08-09)
Hermes on Your Android Phone? Yes, It’s Possible!
Scheduled Tasks (Cron) — Let AI Work Automatically — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Subagent Delegation — AI's Clones
Subagent Delegation — AI's Clones — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Kanban — Multi-Agent Collaboration Board
Kanban — Multi-Agent Collaboration Board — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Persistent Goals — The AI's Long-Term To-Do List
What are Hermes goals and how to use them — turn big tasks into persistent multi-step plans your agent remembers.
Code Execution — AI Writes and Runs Code
Code Execution — AI Writes and Runs Code — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Event Hooks: Make Hermes React to What Happens
Event Hooks — Auto-Trigger at Key Moments — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs (updated 2026-08-09)
Hermes Batch Processing — Run a List at Once
Hermes Agent batch processing: feed a .jsonl file of items to analyze, run one command, and get a trajectory file with every answer and tool call.
Voice Mode — Talk to AI
Voice Mode — Talk to AI — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Browser Automation — AI Surfs the Web
Browser Automation — AI Surfs the Web — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Skills System — AI Gets Smarter with Use
Skills System — AI Gets Smarter with Use — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Vision & Image Paste — AI Can See Images
Vision & Image Paste — AI Can See Images — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Image Generation — AI Draws Pictures
Image Generation — AI Draws Pictures — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Text-to-Speech — AI Speaks
Text-to-Speech — AI Speaks — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Features Overview — Everything Hermes Can Do
Features Overview — Everything Hermes Can Do — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs (updated 2026-08-09)
MCP — Connect Hermes to Thousands of Tools
MCP — Connect Hermes to Thousands of Tools — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
ACP — Communication Protocol Between Agents
ACP — Communication Protocol Between Agents — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
API Server — Hermes as a Service
API Server — Hermes as a Service — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Honcho Memory — Cloud Memory Backend
Honcho Memory — Cloud Memory Backend — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Provider Routing — Smart Model Dispatching
Provider Routing — Smart Model Dispatching — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Fallback Providers — AI Never Down
Fallback Providers — AI Never Down — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Curator — Auto-Clean Your Skills
Curator — Auto-Clean Your Skills — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Hermes Credential Pools — Rotate API Keys
Hermes Agent credential pools: add a second key, pick a rotation strategy, and see how errors are handled so long runs do not stop mid-task.
Hermes Computer Use: Setup, CUA Driver, Doctor
Hermes Computer Use runs on the CUA driver. Install with `hermes computer-use install`, then run `hermes computer-use doctor` if a click won't land.
Deliverable Mode — Focus on Output
Deliverable Mode — Focus on Output — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Document Extraction — Scans to Text
Document Extraction — Scans to Text — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Hermes Heartbeat — Keep Long Tasks Alive
Hermes Agent heartbeats: set one, check its status, pause or resume the timer, and know when to choose a heartbeat over cron.
Kanban Worker Lanes — Division of Labor
Kanban Worker Lanes — Division of Labor — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Kanban Tutorial — Multi-Agent Collaboration
Kanban Tutorial — Multi-Agent Collaboration — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Hermes LSP Diagnostics — Code Checked as You Type
Hermes Agent LSP diagnostics: open your project, read the diagnostic panel, apply quick fixes, and decode what the symbols mean.
Mixture of Agents — Smarter Answers
Mixture of Agents — Smarter Answers — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Hermes Agent Pets — Desktop Pet List & Guide
Hermes Agent pets: install a desktop companion with hermes pets list, filter to cats, and see where the sprite shows up in the TUI and desktop app.
Why Hermes Remembers (and You Don't Have To)
Persistent Memory — AI's Long-Term Memory — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Hermes Agent Wallpapers & Skins — Theme Guide
Change how Hermes Agent looks: built-in skins from golden cute to volcano orange, custom colors, and the three /skin commands that switch them.
Spotify Control — AI Plays Music
Spotify Control — AI Plays Music — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Subscription Proxy — Shared Gateway
Subscription Proxy — Shared Gateway — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Nous Tool Gateway — 300+ Models
Nous Tool Gateway — 300+ Models — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Tool Search — Load Tools on Demand
Tool Search — Load Tools on Demand — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Wake Word — Say Hey Hermes
Wake Word — Say Hey Hermes — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Web Dashboard — Manage AI in Browser
Web Dashboard — Manage AI in Browser — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Web Search & Extract — AI Surfing the Web
Web Search & Extract — AI Surfing the Web — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
X Search — Search Tweets with AI
X Search — Search Tweets with AI — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Memory Providers — Where Memory Lives
Memory Providers — Where Memory Lives — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Context Files — Your Project's Instruction Manual
Context Files — Project Manuals — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Context References — Precise Citations
Context References — Precise Citations — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Personality & SOUL.md: Give Your AI a Real Identity
Personality & SOUL.md — Give AI a Character — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Plugins: Make Hermes Truly Yours
Plugin System — Endless Extensions — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs (updated 2026-08-09)
Hermes A2A Protocol — AI Agents Talking to AI
Hermes A2A (agent-to-agent) protocol: how Hermes agents call other A2A agents over HTTP, the setup you need, and the safety defaults.
BlueBubbles Hermes — AI Agent on iMessage
BlueBubbles + Hermes Agent: what BlueBubbles is, how to install the server, point Hermes at it, and chat over iMessage.
Buzz Hermes Agent — Voice Mode Setup Guide
Buzz, the AI voice chat app, plus Hermes Agent: install the voice extras, pick your STT and TTS providers, and start talking to your agent.
DingTalk — AI for Chinese Workplaces
DingTalk — AI for Chinese Workplaces — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Discord — AI in Your Server
Discord — AI in Your Server — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Email — AI Sends and Receives Mail
Email — AI Sends and Receives Mail — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Feishu — All-in-One Collaboration Platform
Feishu — All-in-One Collaboration Platform — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Messaging Gateway — Connect All Chat Platforms
Messaging Gateway — Connect All Chat Platforms — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Google Chat: Chat with Your Hermes Agent in Workspace
Connect Hermes Agent to Google Chat — setup guide for chatting with your AI assistant inside Google Workspace.
Home Assistant: Control Your Smart Home with Hermes
Connect Hermes Agent to Home Assistant — automate your smart home with natural-language commands.
Hermes Agent IRC — Classic Chat Protocol Setup
Connect Hermes Agent to IRC: the config-file and environment-variable routes, who gets to talk to the bot, and channels versus DMs.
LINE — AI for Japan's Favorite Chat
LINE — AI for Japan's Favorite Chat — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Matrix — Decentralized Chat Network
Matrix — Decentralized Chat Network — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Mattermost Hermes Agent — Self-Hosted Team Chat
Hermes Mattermost integration: enable bot accounts, grab your User ID, set the env vars, and chat with your agent in DMs and channels.
Microsoft Graph Webhook: Receive Hermes Messages via Webhook
Set up a Microsoft Graph webhook listener so your Hermes Agent can deliver messages to Microsoft services.
Hermes ntfy — Lightweight Push Notifications
Pipe Hermes Agent notifications to your phone with ntfy: the identity model, how to talk to your agent from mobile, and cron jobs.
Open WebUI — Web Chat Interface
Open WebUI — Web Chat Interface — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Photon — iMessage Bridge for macOS
Photon — iMessage Bridge for macOS — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
QQ Bot — AI in QQ
QQ Bot — AI in QQ — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Raft — Lightweight Messaging Protocol
Raft — Lightweight Messaging Protocol — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Hermes Relay — Connect Multiple Agent Instances
Hermes Relay lets gateways enroll and reach each other across machines: what enrollment does, when it helps, and how to turn it off.
Signal — Privacy-First Chat
Signal — Privacy-First Chat — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
SimpleX — Privacy Chat Without IDs
SimpleX — Privacy Chat Without IDs — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Slack — Team AI Assistant
Slack — Team AI Assistant — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
SMS — Command AI by Text
SMS — Command AI by Text — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Microsoft Teams — Enterprise Chat
Microsoft Teams — Enterprise Chat — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Teams Meetings — Auto Meeting Notes
Teams Meetings — Auto Meeting Notes — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Telegram — The Most Popular Bot Platform
Telegram — The Most Popular Bot Platform — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Webhooks — Universal Event Entry
Webhooks — Universal Event Entry — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
WeCom — Company AI Assistant
WeCom — Company AI Assistant — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
WeCom Callback Mode — Custom Apps
WeCom Callback Mode — Custom Apps — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
WeChat — AI in Everyone's App
WeChat — AI in Everyone's App — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
WhatsApp — AI for the World's Most-Used Chat
WhatsApp — AI for the World's Most-Used Chat — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
What’s New in Hermes WhatsApp Setup
WhatsApp Business Cloud API — easy-to-understand guide based on official docs
Yuanbao — Tencent AI Assistant
easy-to-understand guide based on official docs