Nous / Hermes maintainer Teknium announced that Hermes Agent can now use Perplexity as its web search and web scrape tool backend, letting developers switch that retrieval stack inside agent workflows.

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  • ✓Hermes Agent can choose Perplexity as web search backend.
  • ✓Also supports Perplexity as web scrape tool backend.
  • ✓Announced by Hermes maintainer Teknium for agent web-retrieval workflows.
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