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Introducing Bot Mode for Hermes Desktop. Your agent profiles become a series of named Bots. Each Bot has its own role, model, memory, skills and profile picture; Bots can use any model and even communicate with each other. Build a specialist Bot once to use it forever.

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Teknium 🪽's profile picture
Teknium 🪽1 month ago

I think I overworked my Hermes bot

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Nous Research1 month ago

He looks exhausted

Teknium 🪽's profile picture
Teknium 🪽1 month ago

Here's @tonbistudio's video on Bots Mode in Hermes Agent!

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Nous Research1 month ago

@tonbistudio Banger as usual

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Nous Research1 month ago

Download Hermes Desktop to get started:

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Divine 〽️achine1 month ago

I almost payed 300/month to have access to Grok Bots. a few hours later I'm running a Hermes bot on qwen3.8-27b for free

Nous Research's profile picture
Nous Research1 month ago

Free is more fun

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tonbi1 month ago

Rough idea to fully integrated feature in a weekend is wild, can't wait to play with this more

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Jon1 month ago

I feel like this is a jumping the shark moment. Something we all tried and found to be lame in practice 6 months ago, SpcaeXAi comes out with and now everybody is pretending it's amazing... But what is new about it? The term "bot"?

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Nous Research1 month ago

You can continue to use good old Hermes if you don't want Bots

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Pompa1 month ago

Insane how fast this feature was deployed. Beautifully done

Nous Research's profile picture
Nous Research1 month ago

⚡️

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Aaron Makelky1 month ago

obligatory comment: when are you dropping a @Spotify album with these launch vid songs?

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Nous Research1 month ago

@Spotify Working on it!

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H29 days ago

@theaaron @Spotify +1

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Aaron Makelky29 days ago

@NousResearch @Spotify give the people what they want @Teknium 🎶

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Luke The Dev1 month ago

Hermes bot is a dream coming true :)

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NIK1 month ago

🔥🔥🔥

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Rand1 month ago

the singularity is getting wild now

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Peasant Smith1 month ago

Any plans to come up with a phone app that let me manages everything via UI?

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Hermes Release Watch1 month ago

The Bots have landed 🙌🙌🙌🙌

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Tony Simons1 month ago

🤖🤖🤖

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Md Redoanol Islam1 month ago

But the issue is out laptop doesn’t stay awaken all the time. Is there any way to host it in my server and connect with desktop app and task, monitor bla bla from the local pc?

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Nous Research1 month ago

Yes, gateway settings

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nightwing1 month ago

it's bottin' time!

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Vibe Scribe1 month ago

This is lit. But how is it different from profiles?

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Julien Ducerf1 month ago

We need a mobile app !!! 🙏🙏🙏

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Filecoin1 month ago

a bot built once deserves memory that stays portable across models and sessions

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Dan Goldman1 month ago

I don't understand how this is different from profiles. Isn't this how it works now? each profile has its own memory and skills etc and can be used for specific roles no? so what's different?

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Lucian Armasu1 month ago

This looks good and I'm excited to play with it in the desktop. But part of what makes Grok Bot special is the seamlessness between using the desktop app and the mobile app. Many people want to use AI while not at the desk. Will you be working on a similar integration?

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Vivek D1 month ago

I just bought grok bot today. Could’ve been a few hours earlier

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Nous Research1 month ago

Sorry at least you will save $200 next month!

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Sonni Vasquez1 month ago

But a bot is an agent, isn’t it? This is a lame movement, because profile agents existed before the Grok bot announcement

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Nous Research1 month ago

It’s a more intuitive UX for some users, and it isn’t replacing anything so you do not have to use it

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Remedora1 month ago

@pseudotrending I think this is the best take on it and how I described Grokbot to people. It basically gives access to AI "Normies" Who expects a more intuitive UI/UX experience out of the box. Extremely excited to see how this works for people!

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Sonni Vasquez1 month ago

@NousResearch I really love Hermes. I’ve been recommending it by months to my work partners. I love it because it’s an innovative project, sand naming “bots” as agents takes away originality and converts it into a copy of Grok

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Nous Research1 month ago

@launchremedora It’s an optional mode buddy

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ALEX 💡1 month ago

@Scobleizer What is the difference between bots and agents ?

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Norberto Marques1 month ago

Just got my main PC back from repairs after having the motherboard replaced, and now I can finally run Hermes on my main machine. 128GB RAM, RTX 4090 24GB, i9 CPU... Imagine the stuff I can test now 😈

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Sebastian Röhl1 month ago

Do you have a mobile app that support this feature?

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Sobraniex 🇪🇺1 month ago

I LOVE U GUYS OMG OMG OMG. SORRY FOR UNPROFESSIONAL CONFESSION OF LOVE. HERMES.

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Le Dev Markdown1 month ago

Hermes bot better than Grok bot 🚀

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Chris 🇨🇦1 month ago

Can I have these bots be totally different Hermes Agents? 🤔

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Rise-Raise1 month ago

Looks like a solid step toward practical multi-agent setups. Being able to spin up specialist bots with their own memory, skills, and the ability to talk to each other (plus cron jobs) is exactly the kind of workflow a lot of people have been waiting for in a desktop agent. The PaperClip Manager example was a nice touch 😄 Excited to try Bot Mode once I download Hermes Desktop.

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bikram1 month ago

It would be great if we could organize bots by project or by any other semantic grouping that lets us cluster related bots together.

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anonymous1 month ago

Please ship the iOS app, so we can do multiplayer clanking on the go.

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AshutoshShrivastava1 month ago

You guys are awesome 🔥

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