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v2026.6.5→v2026.6.19Release Notes
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v2026.6.19: Hermes Agent v0.17.0 (v2026.6.19)Compare Source
Hermes Agent v0.17.0 (v2026.6.19)
Release Date: June 19, 2026
Since v0.16.0: ~1,475 commits · ~800 merged PRs · 1,693 files changed · 235,390 insertions · 50,730 deletions · 300+ issues closed · 245 community contributors
✨ Highlights
Hermes reaches iMessage — Photon Spectrum, no Mac relay required — There's now an iMessage platform plugin built on Photon's managed line pool. Run
hermes photon login, authenticate with a device code, and Hermes can send and receive iMessage — no Mac sitting in a closet running a relay, no BlueBubbles bridge to babysit. It's positioned as the successor to BlueBubbles: free to start, nothing to self-host. If your friends and family live in the blue bubbles, Hermes lives there now too. (#32348, #42582, #44713 — @teknium1)Raft — Hermes joins the Raft agent network as a gateway channel — A new bundled Raft platform adapter lets Hermes connect to Raft as an external agent through a wake-channel bridge. Set
RAFT_PROFILE, run the bridge, and Raft can wake Hermes to handle messages — with a privacy-by-contract design where wake payloads carry only metadata (event IDs, timestamps), never message bodies. Another surface where Hermes can show up and do work. (#48210 — @xxchan, @teknium1)A substantially more capable desktop app — v0.16.0 shipped the desktop app; v0.17.0 deepened it across dozens of PRs. Rebindable keyboard shortcuts, native OS notifications with per-type toggles, live subagent watch-windows that stream a delegated agent's activity into its own pane, a composer model selector with per-model presets, automatic RTL/bidi text direction, a resizable VS Code-themed terminal pane, per-thread composer drafts, and the ability to install any VS Code Marketplace theme directly into the app. The desktop is now a serious daily driver, not a preview. (#45866, #40660, #47060, #46959, #43292, #44596 — @OutThisLife, @teknium1)
Background / async subagents — delegate work and keep going —
delegate_task(background=true)now dispatches a subagent that runs in the background and returns a handle immediately. You and the model keep working while it churns, and the full result re-enters the conversation as a new turn the moment it finishes. Kick off a long research dive or a multi-step build, then carry on with something else instead of sitting blocked waiting on it. (#40946, #46968 — @teknium1)Edit images, not just generate them — image-to-image in
image_generate—image_generatecan now edit and transform a source image, not only create one from scratch. Pass an existing image and a prompt and it routes to the backend's edit endpoint (same tool, same pattern asvideo_generate), across every supported image provider. "Make this logo blue," "remove the background," "turn this sketch into a render" — all from the tool you already use. (#48705 — @teknium1)Automation Blueprints — schedule things without learning cron — Pick an automation by name and Hermes asks you for what it needs — no cron syntax, no
slot=valuetyping. One blueprint definition renders natively on every surface: a form in the dashboard, a slash command in the CLI/TUI/messenger, a conversation with the agent, an entry in the docs catalog. "Daily news briefing at 8am" becomes a thing you set up by answering questions, not by memorizing0 8 * * *. (#41309 — @teknium1)Cursor's Composer model, through your xAI Grok subscription —
grok-composer-2.5-fastis now in the xAI OAuth model picker, with its context window reconciled to the full 200k. Composer is the fast coding model behind Cursor — and if you have an xAI Grok subscription, you can now point Hermes at it directly over OAuth, no separate API key. Your Grok plan, Hermes's agent loop, Composer's coding speed. (#47908, #6f89e17 — @teknium1)Full profile builder in the dashboard — Build a complete Hermes profile from the browser — pick its model, choose its skills, attach its MCP servers — without hand-editing
config.yaml. The dashboard also unified multi-profile management into one machine-wide view with a global profile switcher, so you manage every profile from a single place. (#39084, #44007 — @teknium1)Skills Hub browser rehaul — The dashboard's Skills Hub got a ground-up rework: connected hubs, a Featured section, full skill previews before you install, and a security scan on each skill. Browsing and installing skills from the trusted taps (OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, NVIDIA) is now a real browsing experience, not a flat list. (#40384, #43398 — @teknium1)
The
memorytool got a major upgrade — atomic batch operations — Thememorytool gained anoperationsarray that applies a batch of add/replace/remove edits atomically against the final character budget. The model can free up space and add new entries in a single call — even when an add alone would overflow the budget — collapsing what used to be a fragile multi-turn dance into one reliable operation. Memory updates are now faster and far less likely to fail mid-edit. (#48507 — @teknium1)Secure dashboard login — The dashboard's authentication was hardened: every token-required endpoint now correctly returns 401 behind the OAuth gate, websocket auth uses the served dashboard token, and a warning fires when a
public_urloverride is silently rejected. Exposing your dashboard to the network is safer by default. (#42578, #42578 — @benbarclay, @teknium1)Official WhatsApp Business Cloud API adapter — Alongside the existing Baileys bridge, Hermes now speaks the official WhatsApp Business Cloud API — Meta's first-party, hosted, no-bridge-process path. Point it at your Business API credentials and Hermes talks WhatsApp through the supported channel, with no QR-scanning bridge process to keep alive. (#44331, #43921 — @jquesnelle, @teknium1)
Rich text for Telegram — Bot API 10.1 rich messages — Telegram replies now render as proper rich messages via Bot API 10.1: better formatting, cleaner long-message handling, native markup instead of flattened text. It's on by default with an opt-out, so your Telegram conversations look the way they should without any configuration. (#44829, #45584, #45953 — @teknium1)
Curator cost optimization — no aux-model spend on routine runs — The skill curator now prunes stale skills by default but no longer runs its LLM-powered consolidation pass unless you opt in (
curator.consolidate: trueorhermes curator run --consolidate). The deterministic inactivity sweep keeps running for free; the opinionated, aux-model-spending "build umbrella skills" fork is now off by default. Routine background curation costs you zero tokens. (#47840 — @teknium1)🖥️ Hermes Desktop App
New surfaces & UX
hermes modelin the GUI; unify provider list to one source; warn when a main-model switch leaves auxiliary tasks pinned elsewhere (#46959, #40563, #49080, #40286 — @teknium1, @OutThisLife)/browser connecton a local gateway (#41232, #40559, #40355, #41666, #47245 — @teknium1, @OutThisLife)Remote-gateway & multi-profile
file.attach(#41336, #42634 — @teknium1)📊 Web Dashboard
hermes dashboard register; auto-restart gateway after Telegram QR onboarding; file browser; change UI font from the theme picker; reasoning-effort picker in the chat sidebar (#44021, #42455, #43424, #43512, #41145, #49141 — @teknium1)🏗️ Core Agent & Architecture
God-file refactor wave (run_agent.py / cli.py / gateway/run.py)
cli.pymain() 3297 → 954 lines — extracted 28 subcommand parsers intohermes_cli/subcommands/, then promoted 9 closure handlers; 32 slash-command handlers →CLICommandsMixin; 18 model-flow wizard functions →model_setup_flows; agent-construction cluster →CLIAgentSetupMixin(#41798, #41835, #41942, #42174, #42153 — @teknium1)gateway/run.py19157 → 15870 lines — 42 slash-command handlers →GatewaySlashCommandsMixin; authorization cluster →GatewayAuthorizationMixin; kanban watcher loops →GatewayKanbanWatchersMixin(#41886, #42159, #41849 — @teknium1)run_agent.pyturn loop — extracted prologue intoTurnContext, post-loop tail intofinalize_turn, consolidated inner-retry-loop recovery flags intoTurnRetryState(#41778, #42169, #41828 — @teknium1)Agent loop, prompt & tools
memorybatch operations — atomic add/replace/remove array against the final char budget, so a single call can free space and add entries (#48507 — @teknium1)search_fileslossless densification — headroom evaluation report + the one densification improvement worth shipping (fewer tokens per result, same matches) (#47866 — @teknium1)send_messagetool; coding-context posture across CLI/TUI/desktop/ACP;read_fileextracts.ipynb/.docx/.xlsxto text (#47856, #43316, #37082 — @teknium1)Provider & model support
z-ai/glm-5.2(verified 1M context, OpenRouter + Nous),anthropic/claude-fable-5,laguna-m.1+nemotron-3-ultra, xAI Composer 2.5 in the OAuth picker; default xAI togrok-build-0.1(#47391, #45695, #42979, #42629, #47908, #47371 — @teknium1)reasoningfield; routereasoning_effortto verbosity; require confirmation for very expensive selections (#42991, #43012, #43436, #43391 — @teknium1)model.default_headersfor custom OpenAI-compatible providers (#42263, #42316, #46614, #41096 — @teknium1)InvokeModelwhen IAM denies the streaming variant; Ollama defaultmax_tokens=65536; surface model refusals ascontent_filter(#44293, #41694, #46013 — @teknium1)Sessions, state & multi-agent
kanban_create; machine-global singleton lock for the embedded dispatcher; pin assigned profile toolsets for workers; hold reclaim while worker still alive (#48635, #49068, #45590, #49064 — @teknium1)📱 Messaging Platforms (Gateway)
New channels
hermes photon login(device-code OAuth), gRPC-native channel (no webhook), markdown rendering, emoji reactions, outbound media via spectrum-ts (#32348, #42582, #44713, #42397 — @teknium1)Gateway core & rendering
tool_progress_grouping(#41215, #42576, #47253, #47228 — @teknium1)role_authorizedsoDISCORD_ALLOWED_ROLESworks end-to-end; recover from runtime gateway task exits; cancel_bot_taskon connect failure; stop typing after replies (#43327, #44383, #44432, #44836 — @teknium1)reply_in_thread=false; thread approval UX (block-size overflow + typed-prefix); make video attachments available to agents;register_slack_action_handlerplugin API (#41703, #43444, #45512, #44664 — @teknium1)🖥️ CLI, TUI & Setup
/versionslash command;/billinginteractive terminal billing (TUI + CLI); show time since last final agent response on the status bar; persist resolved approval/clarify prompts in scrollback (#40214, #45449, #44265, #44702 — @teknium1)🔧 Tool System, Skills & MCP
image_generateacross all backends; shrink images to provider dimension limit (#48705, #45979 — @teknium1)tools/listso prompt-only servers connect; preserve stdio argv passthrough + Windows env vars (#48397, #49203, #49208, #49221, #46083, #44550, #44324 — @teknium1, @lgalabru)simplify-codeskill (parallel 3-agent code review & cleanup) + risk-tiered application with Chesterton's Fence; find & diff user-modified bundled skills; optional payments skills (Stripe Link, MPP, Projects); CLI-based shop skill; live per-source browse progress (#41691, #49070, #48286, #31343, #47309, #43398 — @teknium1, @colinwren-stripe)hermes plugins install;session:compresslifecycle event +thread_id/chat_typein agent:start/end context (#42963, #33539, #47252, #41672 — @teknium1)write_approvalreplaces the tri-statewrite_mode(#38199, #43354 — @teknium1)🌐 Fleet, Relay & Automation
/etc/hermes(#49098 — @teknium1)🐳 Docker, Nix & Installer
--replace; harden hosted install tree against self-modification (#38749, #42413, #47555, #47490 — @teknium1)importNpmLock; refresh npmDepsHash after Electron 40.10.2 pin (#41867, #48883, #48457 — @teknium1)🔒 Security & Reliability
🪟 Windows
/chattab via ConPTY (win_pty_bridge) + tests; resolve PowerShell host instead of barepowershellfor uv install; resolvepowershell.exeby absolute path so Desktop install doesn't stall (#42251, #48341, #40927 — @teknium1)_bcrypt.pydlock; read HERMES_HOME from the registry when env is stale; quarantine runninghermes.exeduring update repair (#44084, #45120, #46772, #40409 — @teknium1)🐛 Notable Bug Fixes
:in FTS5 queries so colon searches don't silently return empty (#41430, #40653 — @teknium1)providers.custominstead of codex; repair cron ownership on container restart (#43223, #43505, #41976 — @teknium1)↩️ Reverted in this window (not shipping)
html-artifactskill + sketch/architecture-diagram/concept-diagrams fold (#48899) — reverted (#49053); absent on main.👥 Contributors
A huge thank-you to everyone who contributed to this release — 245 contributors across commits, co-author trailers, and salvaged PRs.
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