Hermes v2026.5.16 Update: Hermes Agent v0.14.0 (2026.5.16)

This release is all about making Hermes easier to install, faster to start, and more useful out of the box—plus bringing Grok, Twitter search, and Microsoft Teams into the fold.

What’s New

Grok is here (and it’s big). If you have a SuperGrok subscription, you can now sign in with your xAI account and use Grok inside Hermes—no API keys, no extra billing. The model itself got a massive upgrade: grok-4.3 now supports a 1M token context window. That’s like being able to drop an entire codebase or a small library’s worth of research into a single prompt. There’s even a helper page for SSH users who need to complete the OAuth flow from a remote machine.

A local proxy for your OAuth providers. Run hermes proxy and you get a local endpoint that speaks the OpenAI API but is actually backed by whatever you’re signed into—Claude Pro, ChatGPT Pro, or SuperGrok. Think of it as a universal adapter: now Codex CLI, Aider, Cline, Continue, or any tool that expects an OpenAI-compatible endpoint can just point at http://localhost:port and use your existing subscription. No more juggling multiple API keys.

X (Twitter) search is now a first-class tool. The x_search tool lets you search tweets and threads directly from Hermes, with either OAuth or an API key. Great for research, trend-spotting, or just pulling up a conversation without leaving your terminal.

Microsoft Teams, end-to-end. The whole stack is wired up: Graph authentication, a webhook listener, pipeline runtime, and outbound message delivery. You can now have Hermes listen to a Teams channel and respond—fully integrated.

Improvements

Installation got dramatically lighter. Heavyweight backends now install lazily—only when you first use them. The [all] extras no longer pull in everything; they only grab what’s not covered by lazy-deps. And if a wheel fails on your platform, Hermes falls back to a tiered install automatically. The result: pip install hermes-agent just works, and it’s much faster.

Cold start is ~19 seconds faster. Launching hermes now feels snappy. Browser CDP calls are 180x faster, too—so automation that touches the browser is dramatically more responsive.

Smarter caching and handoffs. Cross-session Claude prompt caching (1-hour) means repeat conversations don’t re-send the same context. /handoff now actually transfers a live session to another device or user. On Telegram and Discord, clarify questions show up as clickable buttons instead of plain text.

Fixes & Polish

Discord channel history backfill works properly now.
LSP semantic diagnostics run on every write—so you catch errors earlier.
video_generate is now a unified, pluggable tool.
computer_use finally works with non-Anthropic providers via a cua-driver backend.
Clickable URLs in any terminal, plus Zed ACP Registry integration via uvx.
Native Windows beta is here, plus 9 new optional skills and a Pareto router for OpenRouter models.

What This Means for You

If you’ve been hesitant to try Hermes because of install friction or missing integrations, this is the release to jump in. It’s lighter, faster, and more connected than ever. And if you already use Claude Pro or ChatGPT Pro, the new proxy alone is worth the upgrade—it turns your subscription into a universal API key.

📎 Official release notes: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases