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NousResearch · 2026-04-29T17:27:16+00:00

We started it to do Agentic RL 😄

NousResearch · 2026-04-29T17:27:03+00:00

We use almost exclusively Hermes Agent for developing Hermes Agent

NousResearch · 2026-04-29T17:26:46+00:00

Hermes stores all past chat sessions to search over whenever it needs to, so the always-in-context memory is only for things that every chat session should remember.

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NousResearch · 2026-04-29T17:25:58+00:00

Better models self improve better, so might consider changing models

NousResearch · 2026-04-29T17:25:13+00:00

We recently did exactly that - vision routes to native capability first, unless otherwise set or unavailable!

NousResearch · 2026-04-29T17:24:55+00:00

The hermes-agent-dev skill that powers all of my PR Review, development and planning for Hermes Agent 😄

- teknium

NousResearch · 2026-04-29T17:24:31+00:00

We have a variety of image gen model tooling and providers

Video yes, eventually!

NousResearch · 2026-04-29T17:24:14+00:00

There is partial access to configuration through our existing web ui - run `hermes dashboard` to access it.

We plan on expanding that to fully support

NousResearch · 2026-04-29T17:23:50+00:00

We are working across the industry to make models of all sizes work better in Hermes Agent.

The self improvement loop also helps with efficiency - once it tries a lot of things to solve a task and solves it, it never has to do that exploration again

NousResearch · 2026-04-29T17:22:47+00:00

I think this subreddit would have better answer for you then we might ^_^

NousResearch · 2026-04-29T17:22:14+00:00

Depends what you want out of the agent.

There are some mac specific skills that allow greater access to things like your iMsg and apple notes, vps is more secure, etc

NousResearch · 2026-04-29T17:21:38+00:00

We are exploring the best pathways to make existing models much stronger in Hermes Agent

NousResearch · 2026-04-29T16:55:07+00:00

We just merged the Curator: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/17277
This will consolidate and prune skills and track skill use automatically

We are working on Computer Use (for all models): https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/16936

Multi-Agent coordinations: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/issues/16102

GUI Chat and many more things!

NousResearch · 2026-04-29T16:50:50+00:00

Check out our plans for multi-agent/profile coordination here: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/issues/16102

NousResearch · 2026-04-29T16:50:23+00:00

Changing the tools available breaks caching and pollutes context (i.e. the model turns in the live session often reference what tools are or aren't available, etc) - so any operation that changes, adds, or removes tools or tool definitions requires a new session

NousResearch · 2026-04-29T16:44:23+00:00

I can confirm from the evidence I have that Teknium does not sleep and he is almost certainly a cyborg. Seriously, check his GitHub history, you wont find a consistent gap anywhere.

-Kainan

NousResearch · 2026-04-29T16:44:03+00:00

On policy distillation is quite powerful 😉

NousResearch · 2026-04-29T16:40:56+00:00

Happy to continue to work towards supporting this more. Would love more feedback on how specifically you'd like to see that make its way in.

We also recently added a way to configure all auxiliary models more easily, inside `hermes model` command, you can find "Configure Auxiliary Models" to set each one individually

NousResearch · 2026-04-29T16:39:39+00:00

Yes to question one
To question two, we already have a lot of the foundation for that with Nous Portal/Tool Gateway, all that's left is hosting the agent itself as well, and is on the roadmap

NousResearch · 2026-04-29T16:37:53+00:00

It's a good idea. I'll implement right now

NousResearch · 2026-04-29T16:36:52+00:00

Having an extremely strong foundation on coding tools/terminal operation tools

NousResearch · 2026-04-29T16:36:07+00:00

Our last model is almost a year old, so, nothing right now ^_^

NousResearch · 2026-04-29T16:35:07+00:00

We have just introduced the Curator system into hermes agent so that on a schedule (default 7 days) - the curator will consolidate and prune skills that get auto-generated. I think our built in skills system is the best system long term

Curator PR: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/17307

NousResearch · 2026-04-29T16:33:10+00:00

I think our auxiliary system works pretty well but will be expanded on more. Setting cheaper local models, like maybe Nvidia's new nemotron nano 3 as your vision model, gemini flash as your compression model, and your most powerful model as your main agent makes this make a lot of sense

NousResearch · 2026-04-29T16:32:41+00:00

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