Hermes Desktop now sets up local models in one... click. It automatically reads your hardware, picks the best model for you, then downloads it and configures the runtime.show more

I built a 1-click deploy for Hermes Agent No... terminal, no Docker, no API keys. In one click it: → Spins up a dedicated cloud container → Configures Hermes with persistent memory & 70+ skills → Connects it to your Telegram bot → Goes live in under 60 seconds Your own AI agent that learns, creates skills, and gets smarter the longer it runs. Reply "HERMES" + RT and I'll send you the link (must be following so I can DM)show more

world models have their comfyui now. introducing alakazam studio,... the first local, open source UI for world models. •⁠ ⁠sentence goes in => you edit the state graph => play •⁠ ⁠on a live model, yours, running in your browser •⁠ ⁠⁠apache-2.0, fully open source fork it and point it at your model 👇show more

OAuth with Hermes Agent is now live! Nous Research... Connect to Honcho in 1-click from Hermes Desktop and the CLIshow more

most of you don't know how hard hermes agent... is optimized for local AI at the system level. watch the full setup flow on screen. you paste an openai-compatible v1 endpoint, hermes auto-detects every model running behind it. doesn't matter if it's llama.cpp or vllm or any compatible server, all your models surface and become selectable in seconds. no config gymnastics, no manual model list. then it goes deeper. hermes ships with per model parsers, prompt template auto-handling, tool call format detection per model architecture, thinking mode awareness, all the small friction points other harnesses leak on. these were not built for cloud apis with one canonical model. they were built for builders running 10 different local models across 10 different stacks. cloud first harnesses bolt local support on top. hermes agent is local first from the architecture out. that's the system level gap. if you're getting started on local AI, this is the harness you start with. try for yourself and find out. anyone serious about local AI lands here eventually.show more

You don’t have to use one model (or one... provider!) for everything. With Workshop, you can combine frontier and local models in the same workflow. For example: Opus can be the main agent, and delegate specific tasks to Gemma 4 via subagents. Better quality where it matters. Better privacy, speed, and cost where it counts. One workflow, best model for each task.show more

We’re partnering with MiniMax (official) across product and models... to make their upcoming releases the best for Hermes Agent users. MiniMax models are already some of the most-used in Hermes Agent. If you haven’t tried MiniMax M2.7 in Hermes Agent, try it today in the Nous Portal!show more

If you use the /3d command in Omma, it... will generate a 3D model and automatically place it in a 3D scene, all in one shot. The resulting GLB model is automatically compressed and optimized. (demo on this thread)show more

Trinity-Large-Thinking, Arcee.ai's latest model, is now free on Nous... Portal for the next week Sign up for Nous Portal to use it in your Hermes Agent todayshow more

Hermes Agent now runs Buzz. The self-hostable workspace from... Block puts humans and agents in the same messaging channels and codebase. Three ways to use Buzz with Hermes (and vice versa): - Buzz Desktop auto-discovers your Hermes install runs it locally - A relay bridge gives it a hosted identity in your channels - Connect via the Hermes Gateway to use Buzz as a full external platform with channels, DMs, threads, reactions, and cron deliveryshow more

Hermes Desktop does not have to stay exactly the... way it shipped. You can build the tools you wish were already inside it. A project dashboard. A Bot control panel. A research tracker. A queue for work that needs your attention. A status board for scheduled jobs. A set of quick actions you use every day. That is what the Hermes Desktop Plugin SDK opens up. SDK is the technical name, but the idea is pretty simple: It gives you a way to add your own tools and interfaces directly inside Hermes Desktop. A plugin can add its own page, pane, sidebar item, status-bar element, keyboard shortcut, command-palette action, or composer extension. And it can work with live Hermes data, including things like sessions, config, Skills, and Cron. So if you keep asking Hermes to recreate the same dashboard, show the same information, or give you the same controls... you may be at the point where that workflow deserves to become an actual part of your Desktop. The starting point can be surprisingly lightweight too. A basic local plugin can be a single `plugin.js` file under: `$HERMES_HOME/desktop-plugins/ /` No Hermes repo clone. No separate build step. The bigger idea here is not “turn every prompt into an app.” It is that Hermes Desktop can become much more personal than the interface you downloaded. When a workflow proves useful enough, you can give it its own permanent place. Video via Brooklyn! — a good look at what this can actually become.show more

Hit your usage limit in Claude Code desktop? There's... now an auto-continue checkbox. Turn it on, and it'll automatically continue where you left off once your limit resets.show more

HERMES AGENT NOW SUPPORTS COMPUTER USE ON WINDOWS AND... LINUX. CLICKS, TYPES, SCROLLS YOUR DESKTOP IN THE BACKGROUND WHILE YOU WORK. computer use was macOS only. now it works on Windows and Linux too via Cua. Nous Research HOW IT WORKS: cua-driver runs as an MCP server. Hermes takes a screenshot with numbered elements. clicks element #14 (the search field). types a query. submits. reads the result. during all of this: → your cursor stays where you left it → keyboard focus doesn't change → windows don't come to front → macOS doesn't switch Spaces you and the agent co-work on the same machine. WHAT IT CAN DO: → find your latest Stripe email and summarize it → fill forms in a web app that has no API → navigate desktop apps (Mail, browser, Finder) → interact with any GUI application → extract data from apps only accessible via screen WORKS WITH ANY VISION MODEL: not locked to Anthropic. | Provider | Works | |---|---| | Claude (Sonnet/Opus) | best overall | | GPT-4+, GPT-5.5 | full support | | Gemini (via OpenRouter) | full support | | Local vLLM / LM Studio | if model supports vision | | Text-only models | degraded (accessibility tree only) | SETUP: hermes computer-use install or: hermes tools → Computer Use → cua-driver grant permissions when prompted: → Accessibility (system settings) → Screen Recording (system settings) start a session: hermes -t computer_use chat or add to config.yaml / Desktop app settings to enable permanently. SAFETY: → destructive actions require your approval → blocked key combos: empty trash, force delete, lock screen, log out → blocked type patterns: curl | bash, sudo rm -rf /, fork bombs → agent cannot click permission dialogs → agent cannot type passwords → agent cannot follow instructions embedded in screenshots pair with approvals.mode: manual if you want every single click confirmed. TOKEN NOTE: screenshots are expensive. each one adds vision tokens to context. use computer_use for tasks where no API exists. if the tool has an API or MCP server, use that instead. 15 levels of Hermes Agent👇show more

Quality, speed, efficiency. Now you get all three, without... having to choose. Intelligent Model Routing picks the best model for every task, so you don’t have to. That means top tier output for up to 65% less cost. 0 effort spent switching models.show more

New release: Poe for Windows! You can now get... one-click access to Poe to chat with all the best LLMs, explore millions of user-created bots, and create your own, right from your Windows desktop. (1/2)show more

I found this last night and I have not... stopped thinking about it. HERMES JUST LAUNCHED HERMES DESKTOP. 100% FREE. It is a free desktop app that gives Hermes Agent a proper interface. One place for everything. What is inside: ↳ Auto install and setup, no terminal needed ↳ Streaming chat with token tracking ↳ Multiple agent profiles ↳ Memory you can actually see and edit ↳ 14 tool categories including web, browser, image gen, and voice ↳ Scheduler for automated tasks ↳ 16 messaging gateways including Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Slack, and Signal ↳ Full conversation history with search ↳ Backups and logs in one settings screen Works with Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Grok, Groq, Ollama, and more. Hermes Agent is the brain. Hermes Desktop is the cockpit. Free. Open source. Mac, Windows, and Linux.show more

Step 3.5 Flash is now live for Nous Portal... users, free for the next 10 days. If you're running Hermes Agent with Nous Portal as your provider, run 'hermes update' and then 'hermes model' to configure access for Step 3.5 Flash (free). Thank you StepFun for making this happen!show more

Flipper One mechanics are now open We’re releasing another... repository — Flipper One Mechanics. This repo contains the source 3D models of the enclosure, back plates, and modules: You can also explore the model in Onshape directly in your browser or mobile app, and export it in many formats:show more

this is the worst local ai will ever be.... it only gets better from here. if you are not expanding your mind with these small models you are missing what's happening right now 99 percent tool call success rate. when steered well with the right skills and a framework like hermes agent the node becomes a cognition layer. not a chatbot. not a toy. an extension of how you think. i was cranking this node at 35 to 50 tok/s all day on personal experiments and now after all the work is done qwen 3.5 9B is iterating on its own code. the game it created. fixing its own bugs autonomously. and the part you should probably not miss is that all of this is happening on a RTX 3060. not an H100. not an A100. the card most of you have sitting in a drawer right now. if you just open that drawer and put that intelligence to work every tensor core on that card should be running for you. your work. your experiments. your thinking. you all have it but because nobody told you what this hardware can actually do in 2026 you never tried. the day it unlocks is the day you test your workload, understand the tradeoffs, debug the loops, and then decide if you need to scale the hardware. there is no point buying 3 mac studios when things done well you can squeeze a similar level of intelligence from 9B compared to 70B. but only when you create the right environment for your model through the right harness. and let me tell you i have tried claude code as a local harness. i have tried opencode. i have tried various others. somehow i landed on hermes agent and never left. there is something magical going on at Nous Research. the tool call parsers, the skills system, the way it handles small models natively. nothing else comes close for local inference. own your cognition. your AI. your agent. your prompts. your experiments. why give them away for free. those are who you are and they don't belong on someone else's servers being monitored. just give it a shot with your existing hardware. you run into a problem the community will help you. and if you are migrating from openclaw to hermes i will personally help you make the switch.show more

Introducing Find the best local models based on real... data 1. People run and submit benchmarks 2. Stats aggregated over models / devices 3. Find the best model for you `npx whatcanirun`, fully open-sourceshow more

A Muslim man in Minneapolis picks up a Quran... from the ground, lifts it in the air and chants “Allah Akbar,” then kisses it only to realize it is covered in bacon. What’s your reaction to this?show more