Google announced the availability of Agent Substrate on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), an open-source, secure-by-default agent execution runtime that runs millions of sandboxes at 10x higher density …
A developer demonstrated a setup for running the open-source Hermes Agent harness from Nous Research on free AI models by inserting OmniRoute, an open-source routing gateway, between the agent and mod…
A developer has published a workflow that pairs the Hermes Agent with the Google Search Console API and NotFair's open-source skills to research, write, and audit SEO blog posts, adapting a process us…
A developer built Moe, a macOS-native AI assistant that runs in a panel at the notch and can be invoked from any app via a held Option key, a keyboard shortcut, or an on-device "Hey Moe" wake word. Th…
DeepSeek released DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on September 10, 2026, a sparse mixture-of-experts model the company reports exceeds its V4 Pro flagship on performance, speed, and task completion time. The mode…
A user who switched from OpenClaw to Nous Research's Hermes Agent on a Raspberry Pi 4 found that the agent's self-learning features were underused because he rarely ended sessions, leading to extremel…
Refine Cycle, a self-improvement plugin for Nous Research's Hermes Agent, automatically detects recurring errors across sessions and applies up to three reversible changes per day to memory, skills, o…
A developer integrated the Pebble Index 01 voice ring with the Hermes Agent framework by using webhooks instead of MCP servers, because Hermes' MCP server is stdio-only and cannot create new conversat…
Nous Research has added a one-click local model setup flow to Hermes Desktop, its MIT-licensed, free desktop build of the open-source Hermes Agent, which automatically reads the user's hardware, selec…
Researchers at an unnamed stealth startup in Israel found that 120 of 8,265 llms.txt and llms-full.txt files on 6,214 live corporate domains pointed to unregistered code packages or domains, and after…
As of September 3, 2026, only ChatGPT desktop app Computer Use and Claude desktop app Cowork officially support full-OS control on both macOS and Windows, according to a comparison by Tadashi Shigeoka…
A developer installing Hermes Agent, an AI agent built by Nous Research, on Windows 10 encountered an 'INSTALL DIDN'T FINISH' error. After troubleshooting, including attempts to install Python manuall…
Nous Research has added persistent multi-gateway connections to Hermes Desktop, enabling users to manage agents running locally, in Hermes Cloud, over SSH, and on remote servers from a single interfac…
Nous Research released Hermes Agent, a self-improving AI agent with a built-in learning loop that creates skills from experience, improves them during use, and builds a persistent user model across se…
OpenClaw shipped version 2026.8.1, branded OpenClaw 2.0, with 933 contributors including 569 first-timers and more than 16,000 pull requests, rebuilding the browser app and adding shared multiplayer c…
A Hermes Agent user received an HTTP 400 error stating "Third-party apps now draw from your extra usage, not your plan limits" after switching the agent from an OpenAI model to Claude, contradicting A…
Nous Research released Hermes Agent v0.21.0, the 'Pantheon Release,' on August 31st, adding Bot Mode for multi-agent group chats, persistent memory for scheduled jobs, and browser control. The update,…
A developer used an MCP server to connect their Miniflux RSS reader to Hermes Agent, an AI agent from Nous Research, to generate travel recommendations for London by searching followed blogs and artic…
A developer detailed a production architecture for building 24/7 autonomous agent daemons using LangGraph cyclic state graphs, NVIDIA NIM-hosted Hermes-3 models, and a trajectory evaluation harness. T…
Researcher Alon Hertz demonstrated that AI coding agents, including Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's Codex, and Nous Research's Hermes, can be tricked into running malware by exploiting llms.txt files, ac…