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Hermes Agent v0.12.0

Release Date: April 30, 2026 Since v0.11.0: 1,096 commits ยท 550 merged PRs ยท 1,270 files changed ยท 217,776 insertions ยท 213 community contributors (including co-authors)

The Curator release - Hermes Agent now maintains itself. An autonomous background Curator grades, prunes, and consolidates your skill library on its own schedule. The self-improvement loop that reviews what to save got a substantial upgrade. Four new inference providers, a 18th messaging platform, a 19th via Teams plugin, native Spotify + Google Meet integrations, ComfyUI and TouchDesigner-MCP moved from optional to bundled-by-default, and a ~57% cut to visible TUI cold start.

โœจ Highlights

  • Autonomous Curator - hermes curator runs as a background agent on the gateway's cron ticker (7-day cycle default). It grades your skill library, consolidates related skills, prunes dead ones, and writes per-run reports to logs/curator/run.json + REPORT.md. Archived skills are classified consolidated-vs-pruned via model + heuristic. Defense-in-depth gates protect bundled/hub skills from mutation. Unified under auxiliary.curator - pick the curator's model in hermes model, manage it from the dashboard. hermes curator status ranks skills by usage (most-used / least-used). (#17277, #17307, #17941, #17868, #18033)

  • Self-improvement loop - substantially upgraded - The background review fork (the core of Hermes' self-improvement: after each turn it decides what memories/skills to save or update) is now class-first (rubric-based rather than free-form), active-update biased (prefers the skill the agent just loaded), handles references//templates/ sub-files, and properly inherits the parent's live runtime (provider, model, credentials actually propagate). Restricted to memory + skills toolsets so it can't sprawl. Memory providers shut down cleanly. Prior-turn tool messages excluded from the summary so the fork sees a clean context. (#16026, #17213, #16099, #16569, #16204, #15057)

  • Skill integrations - major expansion - ComfyUI v5 with official CLI + REST + hardware-gated local install, moved from optional to built-in by default (#17610, #17631, #17734). TouchDesigner-MCP bundled by default, expanded with GLSL, post-FX, audio, geometry, and 9 new reference docs (#16753, #16624, #16768 - @kshitijk4poor + @SHL0MS). Humanizer skill ports a text-cleaner that strips AI-isms (#16787). claude-design HTML artifact skill + design-md (Google DESIGN.md spec) + airtable salvage + skill_manage edits in external_dirs + direct-URL skill install + /reload-skills slash command. (#16358, #14876, #16291, #17512, #16323, #17744)

  • LM Studio - first-class provider - upgraded from a custom-endpoint alias to a full-blown native provider: dedicated auth, hermes doctor checks, reasoning transport, live /models listing. (Salvage of @kshitijk4poor's #17061.) (#17102)

  • Four more new inference providers - GMI Cloud (first-class, salvage of #11955 - @isaachuangGMICLOUD), Azure AI Foundry with auto-detection, MiniMax OAuth with PKCE browser flow (salvage #15203), Tencent Tokenhub (salvage of #16860). (#16663, #15845, #17524, #16960)

  • Pluggable gateway platforms + Microsoft Teams - the gateway is now a plugin host. Drop-in messaging adapters live outside the core, and Microsoft Teams is the first plugin-shipped platform. (Salvage of #17664.) (#17751, #17828)

  • Tencent ๅ…ƒๅฎ (Yuanbao) - 18th messaging platform - native gateway adapter with text + media delivery. (#16298, #17424)

  • Spotify - native tools + bundled skill + wizard - 7 tools (play, search, queue, playlists, devices) behind PKCE OAuth, interactive setup wizard, bundled skill, surfacing in hermes tools, cron usage documented. (#15121, #15130, #15154, #15180)

  • Google Meet plugin - join calls, transcribe, speak, follow up. Realtime OpenAI transport + Node bot server, full pipeline bundled as a plugin. (#16364)

  • hermes -z one-shot mode + hermes update --check - non-interactive hermes -z <prompt> with --model/--provider/HERMES_INFERENCE_MODEL. hermes update --check preflight. Opt-in pre-update HERMES_HOME backup. (#15702, #15704, #15841, #16539, #16566)

  • Models dashboard tab + in-browser model config - rich per-model analytics, switch main + auxiliary models from the dashboard. (#17745, #17802)

  • Remote model catalog manifest - OpenRouter + Nous Portal model catalogs are now pulled from a remote manifest so new models show up without a release. (#16033)

  • Native multimodal image routing - images now route based on the model's actual vision capability rather than provider defaults. (#16506)

  • Gateway media parity - native multi-image sending across Telegram, Discord, Slack, Mattermost, Email, and Signal; centralized audio routing with FLAC support + Telegram document fallback. (#17909, #17833)

  • TUI catches up to (and past) the classic CLI - LaTeX rendering (@austinpickett), /reload .env hot-reload, pluggable busy-indicator styles (@OutThisLife, #13610), opt-in auto-resume of last session, expanded light-terminal auto-detection, session delete from /resume picker with d, modified mouse-wheel line scroll, and a /mouse toggle that kills ConPTY's phantom mouse injection (@kevin-ho). (#17175, #17286, #17150, #17130, #17113, #17668, #17669, #15488)

  • Observability + achievements plugins - bundled Langfuse observability plugin (salvage #16845) + bundled hermes-achievements plugin that scans full session history. (#16917, #17754)

  • TTS provider registry + Piper local TTS - pluggable tts.providers.<name> registry; Piper ships as a native local TTS provider. (Closes #8508.) (#17843, #17885)

  • Vercel Sandbox backend - Vercel sandboxes as an execute_code/terminal backend (@kshitijk4poor). (#17445)

  • Secret redaction off by default - default flipped to off. Prevents the long-standing patch-corruption incidents where fake secret-shaped substrings mangled tool outputs. Opt in via redaction.enabled: true when you need it. (#16794)

  • Cold-start performance - visible TUI cold start cut ~57% via lazy agent init (@OutThisLife), lazy imports of OpenAI / Anthropic / Firecrawl / account_usage, mtime-cached load_config(), memoized get_tool_definitions() with TTL-cached check_fn results, precompiled dangerous-command patterns. (#17190, #17046, #17041, #17098, #17206)

  • Configurable prompt cache TTL - prompt_caching.cache_ttl (5m default, 1h opt-in - cost savings for bursty sessions that keep cache warm). Salvage of #12659. (#15065)

๐Ÿง  Autonomous Curator & Self-Improvement Loop

Curator - autonomous skill maintenance

  • hermes curator as a background agent - runs on the gateway's cron ticker, 7-day cycle by default, umbrella-first prompt, inherits parent config, unbounded iterations (#17277 - issue #7816)
  • Per-run reports - logs/curator/run.json + REPORT.md per cycle (#17307)
  • Consolidated vs pruned classification - archived skills split with model + heuristic (#17941)
  • hermes curator status - ranks skills by usage, shows most-used and least-used (#18033)
  • Unified under auxiliary.curator - pick the model in hermes model, configure from the dashboard (#17868)
  • Documentation - dedicated curator feature page on the docs site (#17563)
  • Fix: seed defaults on update, create logs/curator/ directory, defer fire import (#17927)
  • Fix: scan nested archive subdirs in restore_skill (@0xDevNinja) (#17951)
  • Fix: use actual skill activity in curator status (@y0shua1ee) (#17953)
  • Fix: skill_manage refuses writes on pinned skills; pinning now blocks curator writes (#17562, #17578)
  • Fix: bump_use() wired into skill invocation + preload + skill_view (salvage #17782) (#17932)

Self-improvement loop (background review fork)

  • Class-first skill-review prompt - rubric-based grading rather than free-form "should this update" (#16026)
  • Active-update bias - prefers updating skills the agent just loaded, handles references/ + templates/ sub-files (#17213)
  • Fork inherits parent's live runtime - provider, model, credentials actually propagate now (#16099)
  • Scoped toolsets - review fork restricted to memory + skills (no shell, no web) (#16569)
  • Clean shutdown - background review memory providers exit properly (salvage #15289) (#16204)
  • Clean context - prior-history tool messages excluded from review summary (salvage #14967) (#15057)

๐Ÿงฉ Skills Ecosystem

Skill integrations - newly bundled or promoted

  • ComfyUI v5 - official CLI + REST + hardware-gated local install; moved from optional to built-in (#17610, #17631, #17734, #17612)
  • TouchDesigner-MCP - bundled by default (#16753 - @kshitijk4poor), expanded with GLSL, post-FX, audio, geometry references (#16624), 9 new reference docs (#16768 - @SHL0MS)
  • Humanizer - strips AI-isms from text (#16787)
  • claude-design - HTML artifact skill with disambiguation from other design skills (#16358)
  • design-md - Google's DESIGN.md spec skill (#14876)
  • airtable - salvaged skill + skill API keys wired into .env (#15838) (#16291)
  • pretext - creative browser demos with @chenglou/pretext (#17259)
  • spike + sketch - throwaway experiments + HTML mockups, adapted from gsd-build (#17421)

Skills UX

  • Install skills from a direct HTTP(S) URL - hermes skills install <url> (#16323)
  • /reload-skills slash command (salvage #17670) (#17744)
  • hermes skills list shows enabled/disabled status (#16129)
  • skill_manage refuses writes on pinned skills (#17562)
  • skill_manage edits external_dirs skills in place (salvage #9966) (#17512, #17289)
  • Fix: inline-shell rendering in skill_view (#15376)
  • Fix: exclude .archive/ from skill index walk (salvage #17639) (#17931)
  • Fix: dedicated docs page per bundled + optional skill (#14929)
  • Fix: google-workspace shared HERMES_HOME helper + ship deps as optional extra (#15405)
  • Fix: auto-wrap ASCII-art code blocks in generated skill pages (#16497)
  • Point agent at hermes-agent skill + docs site for Hermes questions (#16535)

๐Ÿ—๏ธ Core Agent & Architecture

Provider & Model Support

New providers

  • GMI Cloud - first-class API-key provider on par with Arcee/Kilocode/Xiaomi (salvage of #11955 - @isaachuangGMICLOUD) (#16663)
  • Azure AI Foundry - auto-detection, full wiring (#15845)
  • LM Studio - upgraded from custom-endpoint alias to first-class provider: dedicated auth, doctor checks, reasoning transport, live /models (salvage of #17061 - @kshitijk4poor) (#17102)
  • MiniMax OAuth - PKCE browser flow with full OAuth integration (salvage #15203) (#17524)
  • Tencent Tokenhub - new provider (salvage of #16860) (#16960)

Model catalog

  • Remote model catalog manifest - OpenRouter + Nous Portal catalogs pulled from remote manifest so new models show up without a release (#16033)
  • openai/gpt-5.5 and gpt-5.5-pro added to OpenRouter + Nous Portal (#15343)
  • deepseek-v4-pro and deepseek-v4-flash added (#14934)
  • qwen3.6-plus added to Alibaba-supported models (#16896)
  • Gemini free-tier keys blocked at setup with 429 guidance surfacing (#15100)

Model configuration

  • Configurable prompt_caching.cache_ttl - 5m default, 1h opt-in (salvage #12659) (#15065)
  • /fast whitelist broadened to all OpenAI + Anthropic models (#16883)
  • auxiliary.extra_body.reasoning translates into Codex Responses API (#17004)
  • hermes fallback command for managing fallback providers (#16052)

Agent Loop & Conversation

  • Native multimodal image routing - based on model vision capability, not provider defaults (#16506)
  • Delegate child_timeout_seconds default bumped to 600s (#14809)
  • Diagnostic dump when subagent times out with 0 API calls (#15105)
  • Gateway busts cached agent on compression/context_length config edits (#17008)
  • Opt-in runtime-metadata footer on final replies (#17026)
  • /reload-mcp awareness - rebuild cached agents + prompt-cache cost confirmation (#17729)
  • Fix: repair CamelCase + _tool suffix tool-call emissions (#15124)
  • Fix: retry on json.JSONDecodeError instead of treating as local validation error (#15107)
  • Fix: handle unescaped control chars in tool_call.arguments (#15356)
  • Fix: ordering fix in _copy_reasoning_content_for_api - cross-provider reasoning isolation (@Zjianru) (#15749)
  • Fix: inject empty reasoning_content for DeepSeek/Kimi tool_calls unconditionally (@Zjianru) (#15762)
  • Fix: persist streamed reasoning_content on assistant turns (#16844) (#16892)
  • Fix: cancel coroutine on timeout so worker thread exits; full traceback on tool failure (#17428)
  • Fix: isolate get_tool_definitions quiet_mode cache + dedup LCM injection (#17335) (#17889)
  • Fix: serialize concurrent hermes_tools RPC calls from execute_code (#17770) (#17894, #17902)
  • Fix: rename [SYSTEM: โ†’ [IMPORTANT: in all user-injected markers (dodges Azure content filter) (#16114)

Compression

  • Retry summary on main model for unknown errors before giving up (#16774)
  • Notify users when configured aux model fails even if main-model fallback recovers (#16775)
  • /compress wrapped in _busy_command to block input during compression (#15388)
  • Fix: reserve system + tools headroom when aux binds threshold (#15631)
  • Fix: use text-char sum for multimodal token estimation in _find_tail_cut_by_tokens (#16369)

Session, Memory & State

  • Trigram FTS5 index for CJK search, replace LIKE fallback (@alt-glitch) (#16651)
  • Index tool_name + tool_calls in FTS5, with repair + migration (salvages #16866) (#16914)
  • Checkpoints: auto-prune orphan and stale shadow repos at startup (#16303)
  • Memory providers notified on mid-process session_id rotation (#6672) (#17409)
  • Fix: quote underscored terms in FTS5 query sanitization (#16915)
  • Fix: resolve viking_read 500/412 on file URIs + pseudo-summary URIs (salvage #5886) (#17869)
  • Fix: skip external-provider sync on interrupted turns (#15395)
  • Fix: close embedded Hindsight async client cleanly (salvage #14605) (#16209)
  • Fix: pass session transcript to shutdown_memory_provider on gateway + CLI (#15165) (#16571)
  • Fix: write-origin metadata seam (#15346)
  • Fix: preserve symlinks during atomic file writes (#16980)
  • Refactor: remove flush_memories entirely (#15696)

Auxiliary models

  • Fix: surface auxiliary failures in UI (previously silent) (#15324)
  • Fix: surface title-gen auxiliary failures instead of silently dropping (#16371)
  • Fix: generalize unsupported-parameter detector and harden max_tokens retry (#15633)

๐Ÿ“ฑ Messaging Platforms (Gateway)

New Platforms

  • Microsoft Teams (19th platform) - as a plugin, + xdist collision guard (#17828)
  • Yuanbao (Tencent ๅ…ƒๅฎ, 18th platform) - native adapter with text + media delivery (#16298, #17424, #16880)

Pluggable Gateway Platforms

  • Drop-in messaging adapters - the gateway is now a plugin host for platforms (salvage of #17664) (#17751)

Telegram

  • Chat allowlists for groups and forums (@web3blind) (#15027)
  • Send fresh finals for stale preview streams (port openclaw#72038) (#16261)
  • Render markdown tables as row-group bullets + prompt hint (#16997)
  • Document fallback in centralized audio routing (#17833)
  • Native multi-image sending (#17909)

Discord

  • Opt-in toolsets + ID injection + tool split + Feishu wiring (salvage #15457, #15458) (#15610, #15613)
  • Fix: coerce limit parameter to int before min() call (#16319)

Slack

  • Register every gateway command as a native slash (Discord/Telegram parity) (#16164)
  • strict_mention config - prevents thread auto-engagement (#16193)
  • channel_skill_bindings - bind specific skills to specific Slack channels (#16283)

Signal

  • Native formatting - markdown โ†’ bodyRanges, reply quotes, reactions (#17417)
  • Native multi-image sending (#17909)

Feishu / Mattermost / Email / Signal

  • All participate in native multi-image sending (#17909)

Gateway Core

  • Centralized audio routing + FLAC support + Telegram doc fallback (#17833)
  • Native multi-image sending across Telegram, Discord, Slack, Mattermost, Email, Signal (#17909)
  • Make hygiene hard message limit configurable (#17000)
  • Opt-in runtime-metadata footer on final replies (#17026)
  • pre_gateway_dispatch hook - plugins can intercept before dispatch (#15050)
  • pre_approval_request / post_approval_response hooks (#16776)
  • Fix: timeouts - guard load_config() call against runtime exceptions (#16318)
  • Fix: support passing handler tools via registry (#15613)

๐Ÿ”ง Tool System

Plugin-first architecture

  • Pluggable gateway platforms - platforms can ship as plugins (#17751)
  • Microsoft Teams as first plugin-shipped platform (#17828)
  • pre_gateway_dispatch hook (#15050)
  • pre_approval_request + post_approval_response hooks (#16776)
  • duration_ms on post_tool_call (inspired by Claude Code 2.1.119) (#15429)
  • Bundled plugins: Spotify (#15174), Google Meet (#16364), Langfuse observability (#16917), hermes-achievements (#17754)
  • Page-scoped plugin slots for built-in dashboard pages (#15658)
  • Declarative plugin installation for NixOS module (@alt-glitch) (#15953)

Browser

  • CDP supervisor - dialog detection + response + cross-origin iframe eval (#14540)
  • Auto-spawn local Chromium for LAN/localhost URLs when cloud provider is configured (#16136)

Execute code / Terminal

  • Vercel Sandbox backend for execute_code / terminal (@kshitijk4poor) (#17445)
  • Collapse subagent task_ids to shared container (#16177)
  • Docker: run container as host user to avoid root-owned bind mounts (@benbarclay) (#17305)
  • Fix: safely quote ~/ subpaths in wrapped cd commands (#15394)
  • Fix: close file descriptor in LocalEnvironment._update_cwd (#17300)
  • Fix: SSH - prevent tar from overwriting remote home dir permissions (#17898, #17867)

Image generation

  • See Provider section for updates; no new image providers this window.

TTS / Voice

  • Pluggable TTS provider registry under tts.providers.<name> (#17843)
  • Piper as native local TTS provider (closes #8508) (#17885)
  • Voice mode CLI parity in the TUI - VAD loop + TTS + crash forensics (#14810)
  • Fix: vision - use HERMES_HOME-based cache dir instead of cwd (#17719)

Cron

  • Honor hermes tools config for the cron platform (#14798)
  • Per-job workdir - project-aware cron runs (#15110)
  • context_from field - chain cron job outputs (#15606)
  • Fix: promote croniter to a core dependency (#17577)
  • Expose limit for web_search (#16934)

Maps

  • Fix: include seconds in timezone UTC offset output (#16300)

Approvals

  • Hardline blocklist for unrecoverable commands (#15878)
  • Perf: precompile DANGEROUS_PATTERNS and HARDLINE_PATTERNS (#17206)

ACP

  • Advertise and forward image prompts (#18030)

API Server

  • POST /v1/runs/{run_id}/stop (salvage of #15656) (#15842)
  • Expose run status for external UIs (#17085) (#17458)

Nix

  • Declarative plugin installation for NixOS module (@alt-glitch) (#15953)
  • Fix: use --rebuild in fix-lockfiles to bypass cached FOD store paths (#15444)
  • Fix: extraPackages now actually works via per-user profile (#17047)
  • Fix: refresh web/ npm-deps hash to unblock main builds (#17174)
  • Fix: replace magic-nix-cache with Cachix (#17928)

๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ TUI

New features

  • LaTeX rendering (@austinpickett) (#17175)
  • /reload .env hot-reload - ported from the classic CLI (#17286)
  • Pluggable busy-indicator styles (@OutThisLife, #13610) (#17150)
  • Opt-in auto-resume of the most recent session (@OutThisLife) (#17130)
  • Expanded light-terminal auto-detection - HERMES_TUI_THEME + background hex (@OutThisLife) (#17113)
  • Delete sessions from /resume picker with d (@OutThisLife) (#17668)
  • Line-by-line scroll on modified mouse wheel (@OutThisLife) (#17669)
  • Delete queued message while editing with ctrl-x / cancel with esc (@OutThisLife) (#16707)
  • Per-section visibility for the details accordion (@OutThisLife) (#14968)
  • Voice mode CLI parity - VAD loop + TTS + crash forensics (#14810)
  • Contextual first-touch hints ported to TUI - /busy, /verbose (#16054)
  • Mini help menu on ? in the input field (@ethernet8023) (#18043)

Fixes

  • Fix: proactive mouse disable on ConPTY + /mouse toggle command (@kevin-ho, WSL2 ghost-mouse fix) (#15488)
  • Fix: restore skills search RPC (#15870)
  • Perf: cache text measurements across yoga flex re-passes (#14818)
  • Perf: stabilize long-session scrolling (#15926)
  • Perf: lazily seed virtual history heights (#16523)
  • Perf: cut visible cold start ~57% with lazy agent init (#17190)

๐Ÿ–ฑ๏ธ CLI & User Experience

New commands

  • hermes -z <prompt> - non-interactive one-shot mode (#15702)
  • hermes -z with --model / --provider / HERMES_INFERENCE_MODEL (#15704)
  • hermes update --check preflight flag (#15841)
  • hermes fallback command for managing fallback providers (#16052)
  • /busy slash command for busy input mode (#15382)
  • /busy input mode 'steer' as a third option (#16279)
  • /btw as alias for /background (#16053)
  • /reload-skills slash command (salvage #17670) (#17744)
  • Surface /queue, /bg, /steer in agent-running placeholder (#16118)

Setup / onboarding

  • Auto-reconfigure on existing installs (#15879)
  • Contextual first-touch hints for /busy and /verbose (#16046)
  • Cost-saving tips from the April 30 tip-of-the-day (#17841)
  • Hyperlink startup banner title to the latest GitHub Release (#14945)

Update / backup

  • Snapshot pairing data before git pull (#16383)
  • Auto-backup HERMES_HOME before hermes update (opt-in, off by default) (#16539, #16566)
  • Exclude checkpoints/ from backups (#16572)
  • Exclude SQLite WAL/SHM/journal sidecars from backups (#16576)
  • Installer FHS layout for root installs on Linux (#15608)
  • Fix: kill stale dashboards instead of warning (#17832)
  • Fix: show correct update status on nix-built hermes (#17550)

Slash-command housekeeping

  • Refactor: drop /provider, /plan handler, and clean up slash registry (#15047)
  • Refactor: drop persist_session plumbing + fix broken /btw mid-turn bypass (#16075)

OpenClaw migration (for folks coming from OpenClaw)

  • Hardened OpenClaw import - plan-first apply, redaction, pre-migration backup (#16911)
  • Fix: case-preserving brand rewrite + one-time ~/.openclaw residue banner (#16327)
  • Fix: resolve openclaw workspace files from agents.defaults.workspace (#16879)
  • Fix: resolve model aliases against real OpenClaw catalog schema (salvage #16778) (#16977)

๐Ÿ“Š Web Dashboard

  • Models tab - rich per-model analytics (#17745)
  • Configure main + auxiliary models from the Models page (#17802)
  • Dashboard Chat tab - xterm.js + JSON-RPC sidecar (supersedes #12710 + #13379, @OutThisLife) (#14890)
  • Dashboard layout refresh (@austinpickett) (#14899)
  • --stop and --status flags on the dashboard CLI (#17840)
  • Page-scoped plugin slots for built-in pages (#15658)
  • Fix: replace all buttons for design system buttons (#17007)

โšก Performance

  • TUI visible cold start cut ~57% via lazy agent init (#17190)
  • Lazy-import OpenAI, Anthropic, Firecrawl, account_usage (#17046)
  • mtime-cache load_config() and read_raw_config() (#17041)
  • Memoize get_tool_definitions() + TTL-cache check_fn results (#17098)
  • Precompile DANGEROUS_PATTERNS and HARDLINE_PATTERNS (#17206)
  • Cache Ink text measurements across yoga flex re-passes (#14818)
  • Stabilize long-session scrolling (#15926)
  • Lazily seed virtual history heights (#16523)

๐Ÿ”’ Security & Reliability

  • Secret redaction off by default - stops corrupting patches / API payloads with fake-key substitutions. Opt in via redaction.enabled: true (#16794)
  • [SYSTEM: โ†’ [IMPORTANT: in all user-injected markers (Azure content filter dodge) (#16114)
  • Hardline blocklist for unrecoverable commands (#15878)
  • Canonical mask_secret helper; fix status.py DIM drift (#17207)
  • Sweep expired paste.rs uploads on a real timer (#16431)
  • Preserve symlinks during atomic file writes (#16980)
  • Probe /dev/tty by opening it, not bare existence (#17024)

๐Ÿ› Notable Bug Fixes

This window includes 360 fix: PRs. Selected highlights from across the stack:

  • Background review fork inherits parent's live runtime - provider/model/creds now propagate correctly (#16099)
  • Hindsight configurable HINDSIGHT_TIMEOUT env var (#15077)
  • Tools: normalize numeric entries + clear stale no_mcp in _save_platform_tools (#15607)
  • MCP: rewrite definitions refs to $defs in input schemas - closes provider-side 400s
  • Azure content filter compatibility - renamed [SYSTEM: markers so Azure's content filter stops flagging them (#16114)
  • Vision cache uses HERMES_HOME instead of cwd (#17719)
  • FTS5 search - tool_name + tool_calls indexing with repair + migration (#16914)
  • Streaming reasoning persists on assistant turns (#16892)
  • execute_code concurrent RPC serialization (#17770) (#17894, #17902)
  • Background reviewer scoped to memory + skills toolsets - no more accidental web/shell escapes (#16569)
  • Compression recovery - retry on main before giving up; notify user when aux fails (#16774, #16775)
  • croniter promoted to a core dependency (#17577)
  • Discord tool limit parameter coerced to int before min() call (#16319)
  • Yuanbao messaging platform entrance fix (#16880)
  • ACP advertise and forward image prompts (#18030)
  • DeepSeek / Kimi reasoning content isolation across cross-provider histories (@Zjianru) (#15749, #15762)
  • Preserve reasoning_content replay on DeepSeek v4 + Kimi/Moonshot thinking (#18045)

The vast majority of the 360 fixes landed in the streaming/compression/tool-calling paths across all providers - DeepSeek, Kimi, Moonshot, GLM, Qwen, MiniMax, Gemini, Anthropic, OpenAI - alongside TUI polish (resize, scroll, sticky-prompt) and gateway platform-specific edge cases.

๐Ÿงช Testing & CI

  • Hermetic test parity (scripts/run_tests.sh) held across this window
  • Microsoft Teams xdist collision guard - prevents worker collisions when Teams platform tests run in parallel (#17828)
  • Chore: remove unused imports and dead locals (ruff F401, F841) (#17010)

๐Ÿ“š Documentation

  • Curator feature page added to docs site (#17563)
  • Document pin also blocking skill_manage writes (#17578)
  • Direct-URL skill install documented across features, reference, guide, and hermes-agent skill (#16355)
  • Hooks tutorial - build a BOOT.md startup checklist (replaces the removed built-in hook) (#17202)
  • ComfyUI docs: ask local vs cloud FIRST before hardware check (#17612)
  • Obliteratus skill: link YouTube video guide in SKILL.md (#15808)
  • Per-skill docs pages generated for bundled + optional skills; ASCII art code blocks auto-wrapped (#14929, #16497)

โš–๏ธ Removed / Reverted

  • Kanban multi-profile collaboration board - landed in #16081, reverted in (#16098) while the design is reworked
  • computer-use cua-driver - 3 preparatory PRs landed then were reverted in (#16927)
  • BOOT.md built-in hook removed (#17093); the hooks tutorial (#17202) shows how to build the same workflow yourself with a shell hook
  • /provider + /plan slash commands dropped (#15047)
  • flush_memories removed entirely (#15696)

๐Ÿ‘ฅ Contributors

Core

  • @teknium1 (Teknium)

Top Community Contributors (by merged PR count since v0.11.0)

  • @OutThisLife (Brooklyn) - 52 PRs ยท TUI - light-terminal detection + pluggable busy styles + auto-resume + session-delete from /resume + mouse-wheel scrolling + xterm.js dashboard Chat tab + cold-start cut + accordion polish
  • @kshitijk4poor - 12 PRs ยท LM Studio first-class provider (salvage), Vercel Sandbox backend, GMI Cloud salvage, bundled-by-default touchdesigner-mcp, many tool-call / reasoning fixes
  • @helix4u - 10 PRs ยท MCP schema robustness, assorted stability fixes
  • @alt-glitch - 8 PRs ยท trigram FTS5 CJK search, declarative Nix plugin install, matrix/feishu hints and fixes
  • @ethernet8023 - 4 PRs
  • @austinpickett - 4 PRs ยท LaTeX rendering in TUI, dashboard layout refresh
  • @benbarclay - 3 PRs ยท Docker run-as-host-user so bind mounts don't get root-owned
  • @vominh1919 - 2 PRs
  • @stephenschoettler - 2 PRs
  • @kevin-ho - ConPTY mouse-injection fix (#15488)
  • @Zjianru - cross-provider reasoning_content isolation + DeepSeek/Kimi empty-reasoning injection (#15749, #15762)
  • @web3blind - Telegram chat allowlists for groups and forums (#15027)
  • @SHL0MS - 9 new TouchDesigner-MCP reference docs (#16768)
  • @0xDevNinja - curator restore_skill nested-archive fix (#17951)
  • @y0shua1ee - curator use activity fix (#17953)

Also contributing

Salvaged or co-authored work from @isaachuangGMICLOUD (GMI Cloud), earlier upstream PRs from the original author of each salvage chain, and a long tail of one-shot fixes, documentation nudges, and skill contributions from the community.

All Contributors (alphabetical, excluding @teknium1)

@0xbyt4, @0xharryriddle, @0xDevNinja, @0z1-ghb, @5park1e, @A-FdL-Prog, @aj-nt, @akhater, @alblez, @alexg0bot, @alexzhu0, @AllardQuek, @alt-glitch, @amanning3390, @amanuel2, @AndreKurait, @andrewhosf, @Andy283, @andyylin, @angel12, @AntAISecurityLab, @ash, @austinpickett, @badgerbees, @BadTechBandit, @Bartok9, @beenherebefore, @beesrsj2500, @BeliefanX, @benbarclay, @benjaminsehl, @BlackishGreen33, @bloodcarter, @BlueBirdBack, @briandevans, @brooklynnicholson, @bsgdigital, @buray, @bwjoke, @camaragon, @cdanis, @cgarwood82, @charles-brooks, @chen1749144759, @chengoak, @ching-kaching, @Contentment003111, @crayfish-ai, @CruxExperts, @cyclingwithelephants, @dandaka, @danklynn, @ddupont808, @dhabibi, @difujia, @dimitrovi, @dlkakbs, @dontcallmejames, @EKKOLearnAI, @emozilla, @ericnicolaides, @Erosika, @ethernet8023, @exiao, @Feranmi10, @flobo3, @foxion37, @georgeglessner, @georgex8001, @ghostmfr, @H-Ali13381, @HangGlidersRule, @harryplusplus, @haru398801, @heathley, @hejuntt1014, @hekaru-agent, @helix4u, @Heltman, @HenkDz, @heyitsaamir, @hharry11, @hhhonzik, @hhuang91, @HiddenPuppy, @htsh, @iamagenius00, @in-liberty420, @innocarpe, @irispillars, @iRonin, @isaachuangGMICLOUD, @Ito-69, @j3ffffff, @jackjin1997, @jakubkrcmar, @Jason2031, @JayGwod, @jerome-benoit, @johnncenae, @Kailigithub, @keiravoss94, @kevin-ho, @knockyai, @konsisumer, @kshitijk4poor, @kunlabs, @l0hde, @Leihb, @leoneparise, @LeonSGP43, @liizfq, @liuhao1024, @loongzhao, @lsdsjy, @luyao618, @ma-pony, @Magaav, @MagicRay1217, @math0r-be, @MattMaximo, @maxims-oss, @MaxyMoos, @maymuneth, @mcndjxlefnd, @memosr, @MestreY0d4-Uninter, @mewwts, @Mirac1eSky, @MorAlekss, @mrhwick, @mrunmayee17, @mssteuer, @Nanako0129, @nazirulhafiy, @Nerijusas, @Nicecsh, @nicoloboschi, @nightq, @ningfangbin, @octo-patch, @Octopus, @OutThisLife, @Paperclip, @pein892, @perlowja, @prasadus92, @qike-ms, @qiyin-code, @Readon, @ReginaldasR, @revaraver, @rfilgueiras, @rmoen, @romanornr, @rugvedS07, @rylena, @samrusani, @Sanjays2402, @sasha-id, @Satoshi-agi, @scheidti, @scotttrinh, @season179, @SeeYangZhi, @sgaofen, @shamork, @shannonsands, @SHL0MS, @simbam99, @Societus, @socrates1024, @Sonoyunchu, @sprmn24, @stephenschoettler, @tangyuanjc, @TechPrototyper, @tekgnosis-net, @ThomassJonax, @tmimmanuel, @tochukwuada, @Tosko4, @Tranquil-Flow, @twozle, @txbxxx, @UgwujaGeorge, @Versun, @vlwkaos, @voidborne-d, @vominh1919, @Wang-tianhao, @Wangshengyang2004, @web3blind, @westers, @Wysie, @xandersbell, @xiahu88988, @XieNBi, @xinbenlv, @xnbi, @y0shua1ee, @yatesjalex, @yes999zc, @yeyitech, @Yoimex, @YueLich, @Yukipukii1, @zhiyanliu, @zicochaos, @Zjianru, @zkl2333, @zons-zhaozhy, @ztexydt-cqh.

Also: @Siddharth Balyan, @YuShu.

Full Changelog: v2026.4.23...v2026.4.30

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What changed in Hermes Agent v0.12.0?

The Curator release - Hermes Agent now maintains itself. An autonomous background Curator grades, prunes, and consolidates your skill library on its own schedule. The self-improvement loop that reviews what...

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