Hermes Agent released MoA presets as virtual models that outperform Opus 4.8 by 8% and GPT 5.5 by 11% on an upcoming benchmark, offering capabilities beyond publicly available frontier models to selec…
Hermes Agent, an open-source AI agent, has achieved 188,000 GitHub stars and processes 224 billion daily tokens on OpenRouter, making it the fastest-growing open-source agent of 2026, yet its underlyi…
Skillmaxxing, a new open-source CLI tool, enables coding agents like Claude Code and Codex to automatically create and improve their own skills over time by reflecting on completed work, eliminating t…
Nous Research's open-source Hermes Agent, using Mixture of Agents presets, outperformed Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on SWE-bench Pro benchmarks. The framework strings multiple lan…
Nous Research released Mixture of Agents presets as virtual models in Hermes Agent, allowing users to select multi-model workflows like any other model. The company claims its MoA presets outperform i…
A developer shares a step-by-step guide to building a Hermes Agent skill, explaining how skills serve as reusable procedural memory that teaches an agent conventions, tools, and workflows. The walkthr…
A developer demonstrated how to securely expose a local Hermes Agent to the internet using Tailscale Funnel, avoiding the need for port forwarding or renting a VPS. The Hermes Agent runs an OpenAI-com…
Two open-source agent runtimes, OpenClaw and Hermes Agent, are competing for control of the agent layer. OpenClaw, backed by OpenAI, Nvidia, and Microsoft, focuses on broad channel connectivity and en…
Nous Research deployed its open-source Hermes Agent on AWS using a zero-inbound-security-group architecture, relying on AWS Systems Manager Session Manager for admin access and Telegram long-polling f…
Users discuss integrating Kagi Search API with Open WebUI for AI model web searches, praising its $12 for 1,000 searches with no expiry. Alternatives like YaCy and Brave Search are mentioned, with som…
A developer encountered three pitfalls while enabling WhatsApp on the self-hosted Hermes Agent from Nous Research, including issues with Docker and unprivileged LXC containers, and ultimately found a …
Nous Research has added a /learn command to its Hermes Agent Skills System, enabling the agent to automatically generate a standards-compliant SKILL.md file from local directories, documentation URLs,…
Nous Research announced that its Hermes Agent can now learn from any source material, including code, API docs, manuals, PDFs, and configs, distilling them into verifiable reusable skills.…
A Hugging Face user whose account was locked after duplicating a Space reports that the account was eventually restored after contacting safety@huggingface.co and HF Discord. The user advises others n…
Repomix-rs, a high-performance Rust rewrite of the original Repomix (TypeScript), packages entire codebases into single AI-friendly files for use with LLMs like Hermes Agent, Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemi…
CodeGraph, an MCP server that pre-indexes codebases into a semantic graph, reduced token waste for AI agents by up to 74% in testing. A developer found that on three projects—Hermes Agent, a React das…
A new 22-chapter skeleton course on designing, building, and operating production AI agents has been released, designed to be read alongside an AI coding partner. The course focuses on architectural p…
A $1,500 build using three used RTX 3060s (36GB VRAM) matched or outperformed a single RTX 3090 (24GB) in local AI benchmarks, achieving 18.2 tokens/second on Qwen 3.6 27B vs. 16.8 for the 3090, and 2…
Maccha, a lightweight file architecture and set of markdown templates, enables cross-agent persistent memory for AI coding assistants like Antigravity, Claude Code, and OpenCode, allowing them to shar…
Nous Research updated its open-source Hermes Agent with a Blank Slate setup mode that starts with only provider, model, File Operations, and Terminal enabled, disabling all other tools by default. The…