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Hermes Agent v0.20.5 (v2026.8.19)

About this release: Since v0.20.4 (v2026.8.18, tagged August 18), this window landed ~746 commits across ~1,250 files (+111,500 / −20,701) — ~323 merged PRs including Bot Mode group-room threads, foldable conversation summaries, blob-face avatars, and PDF/file attachments with drag & drop; the keyless web tier (5-vendor free rotation with ring failover, web search on fresh installs with zero keys); a CLI polish wave (fuzzy /model picker, Ctrl+P command palette, richer /status); execution-discipline and runtime stall guards from the Composio eval findings; hermes update receipts and fleet --plan verification; hermes worktree list/prune; the opencode-free zero-auth provider; multi-question clarify; desktop perf work (paint-first Bot Mode hydration, compositor spinners, React Compiler in both renderers); and cron jobs gaining persistent memory and per-job reasoning effort.

解读本次更新为 Hermes Agent 带来了许多新功能:比如 Bot 模式支持群组房间线程,对话可以按主题分组;对话摘要支持折叠,方便快速浏览;新增 blob 风格头像;支持 PDF 和文件附件,并可直接拖拽发送;无密钥 Web 使用方式(默认集成多家供应商并自动轮换),新用户无需配置 API 密钥即可联网搜索;命令行工具增强,如 /model 模糊选择、Ctrl+P 命令面板、更丰富的 /status;新增多问题澄清能力,指令模糊时能一次提出多个问题让用户确认;定时任务(cron)获得持久记忆,并可为每个任务单独设置推理强度。这些改进让日常使用更顺手,比如直接拖拽 PDF 给助手分析,或者让定时任务记住上下文、回答更连贯。

Hermes Agent v0.20.4 (2026.8.18)

About this release: Since v0.20.3 (v2026.8.16.2, tagged August 17), this window landed ~146 commits across ~265 files (+21,697 / −2,217) — ~74 merged PRs including the desktop glass/translucency surface work (matte glass, frost picker, macOS pre-select), the tabbed SESSIONS|BOTS sidebar with per-bot hide/unhide, Bot Mode group-chat fixes (long-running member turns, Markdown rendering, cross-machine routing), NVIDIA SkillEvaluator Tier 1 advisory scanning on skill installs (license + security checks), cron media-send hardening (configurable timeout, manual-run attachments, missed-fire surfacing), SessionDB event-loop-thread and contention fixes, hermes update parked-branch honesty, and kanban native OS notifications.

解读这是一个包含多项新功能和改进的版本:桌面端新增了玻璃/半透明界面(如磨砂玻璃、取色器、macOS 预选),侧边栏改为标签式 SESSIONS|BOTS 并支持单独隐藏/显示机器人;技能安装时会进行 NVIDIA SkillEvaluator 的许可证与安全扫描;定时任务媒体发送更可靠(可配置超时、手动运行附件、提醒错过的任务);面板(kanban)支持系统原生通知;同时修复了 Bot 模式群聊、数据库竞争等问题。实际使用中,例如你可以在侧边栏隐藏不用的机器人,或安装技能时自动获得安全提醒。

Hermes Agent v0.20.3 (2026.8.16.2)

About this release: Since v0.20.2 (v2026.8.16, tagged earlier today), this window landed ~250 commits across ~461 files (+42,613 / −1,641) — ~125 merged PRs including the MCP 2.x SDK migration and 2026-07-28 stateless protocol support, the bundled Bot Mode (hermes-bots) plugin with the core teammate protocol, the CommandCode provider plugin, subprocess Python runtime ownership hardening (PYTHONHOME/PYTHONPATH isolation), Cua Driver 0.20 runtime contracts for computer use, kanban worktree/dispatch fixes, cron continuity flags, desktop remote-gateway headers and connection self-healing, cron scheduler self-heal (EMFILE recovery, stale-claim reconciliation, wedged-job re-arm), session handoff data-loss fixes, plus a wave of ports from the ecosystem scout slate (plugin install security scanning, /worktree, /rollback hand-edit preservation, UTF-16 file reads, Gemini 3 tool-call ID preservation, and more).

解读这个版本是一次大更新,带来了许多新能力和重要改进。主要包括:升级到 MCP 2.x 并支持 2026-07-28 的 stateless 协议,让智能体之间的通信更标准高效;新增了内置的 Bot Mode(hermes-bots)插件,支持核心的同事协作协议,可以让多个智能体像团队一样协同工作;还新增了 CommandCode 提供者插件,方便在命令行中执行代码。另外,对 Python 子进程的运行环境做了更严格的隔离(PYTHONHOME/PYTHONPATH),避免环境变量干扰;计算机使用(Cua Driver)也有了更稳定的运行时契约。同时修复了看板、定时任务、会话交接中的一些数据丢失问题,并增强了 cron 调度器的自愈能力(比如文件打开失败自动恢复)。还移植了一些生态工具,比如插件安装安全扫描、/worktree 命令、/rollback 保留手动编辑、UTF-16 文件读取、Gemini 3 工具调用 ID 保留等。简单来说,这个版本让 Hermes Agent 更强大、更稳定,适合多智能体协作和日常自动化。

Hermes Agent v0.20.2 (2026.8.16)

About this release: Since v0.20.1 (v2026.8.13, tagged August 13), this window landed ~967 commits across ~1,279 files (+128,522 / −7,622) — ~397 merged PRs of fixes and improvements spanning the desktop app (multi-gateway Connections registry, profile-scoped refreshes, MCP health checks and deep links), the CLI (Windows update probes, Kitty keyboard protocol, chat -c hardening), the gateway (persisted model routes, /loop completion, Telegram DM topics), prompt caching for LiteLLM Claude on the OpenAI wire, cron hardening, auth resolution through profile scopes, and installer robustness on both Linux and Windows.

解读这次更新带来了不少新功能:桌面端现在支持在一个地方管理多个 AI 网关(多网关连接注册表),并且可以按配置范围单独刷新,还增加了 MCP 健康检查,方便你确认各个服务是否正常工作;网关新增了持久化的模型路由(重启后路由配置不会丢),以及 Telegram 私聊主题支持。也优化了 CLI 和安装程序。举个例子,以前你可能只能配置一个 AI 服务,现在可以在应用里同时接入多个网关,统一切换和管理,对日常使用更灵活。

Hermes Agent v0.20.1 (2026.8.13)

no notable user-facing improvements in this release

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Hermes Agent v0.20.0 (2026.8.3)

✨ Highlights: Talk to Hermes — streaming, conversational voice with barge-in — Voice mode used to mean: speak, wait for the whole reply to generate, then listen to one long audio file. Now Hermes speaks clause-by-clause as the response streams, you can interrupt it mid-sentence by just talking (it stops, listens, and the model is told you cut in), and busy-aware silence detection means it doesn't talk over you. This works in CLI voice mode, on the desktop, and through gateway adapters. Talking to Hermes finally feels like a conversation, not a voicemail exchange. ( — @teknium1, @OutThisLife)

解读语音模式升级为流式对话:以前语音要先等整段回复生成完再听,现在可以边生成边听,而且能中途说话打断,Hermes 会停下来听你的新指令。实际体验像打电话,而不是对着答录机说话。

Hermes Agent v0.19.1 (v2026.7.30)

no notable user-facing improvements in this release

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