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Hermes Agent Update v0.8 is HUGE! (Intelligence Release)

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April 9, 2026
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Hermes Agent v0.8, dubbed the 'Intelligence Release', brings significant improvements to workflow automation and production deployments. You now get background task auto-notification with a notify-on-complete flag, letting your agent kick off long-running jobs and move on to other work instead of sitting idle. Live model switching is here too—you can swap providers and models mid-session from CLI, Telegram, or Discord, with smart fallback when your primary model hits rate limits. The standout feature is self-optimized tool calling: Hermes diagnosed its own failure patterns through automated benchmarking and patched five of them, making production pushes far more reliable. On the provider front, Google AI Studio joins as a native provider with automatic context limit detection. You get interactive model pickers on messaging platforms, MiniMax TTS support, and free access to Xiaomi Mimo v2 Pro on NewsPortal for auxiliary tasks. The agent loop intelligence has leveled up with better execution discipline and structured reasoning, resulting in more reliable tool calling on OpenAI models. Messaging platform improvements include Discord slash command registration for skills and approval buttons for dangerous commands—no more typing '/approve' manually. The execute code tool now works on remote backends like Docker, SSH, and Modal, not just locally. Browser management switched from browserbase to browseruse, with Firecrawl available as a cloud provider and JavaScript console evaluation support. Six new skills shipped, with LLM Wiki being the standout—it's essentially an Obsidian-style knowledge base for markdown files, perfect for research workflows where your agent needs to connect information across documents. Memory gets a new 'super memory' provider with multi-container support and per-user scoping. Shared thread sessions are now default for multi-user environments, so multiple people in a Telegram group or Discord server can interact with the same agent without manual setup. Security improvements include OAuth 2.1 PKCE support for MCP and automatic malware scanning. The cron system now uses inactivity-based timeouts instead of wall clock limits, so active jobs never get killed prematurely. Documentation received major attention with 40+ discrepancies fixed and 13 new features documented.

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