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During NousCon 2026 in New York on Oct 30, Nous Research released an official mobile beta of Hermes Agent and put up a sign-up page at hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/mobile: iOS users join the "Hermes Agent - Mobile" beta through TestFlight, and Android users join through Firebase App Distribution. The TestFlight page says the app connects to your own Hermes gateway so you can chat with streaming, approve tool calls, and manage bots and routines from anywhere. Teknium, co-founder and lead engineer of Hermes Agent, confirmed on X that the iPhone and Android betas launched together. Nous has not announced a general release date or any benchmarks.

@DanKornas introduced tenequm/pond, an open-source storage and search layer for AI-agent sessions. It ingests history from clients such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Hermes Agent, stores it locally or in user-owned S3, and exposes BM25 search, read-only SQL, and MCP access for retrieving and restoring prior decisions, fixes, and dead ends. The repository had about 69 GitHub stars at verification and uses Apache-2.0.

Nous Research announced a Plugin Catalog for Hermes Agent, launching with 4 official plugins and 96 community plugins spanning desktop mods, new platforms, browsing, and specialized tools. The team reviews every community plugin and plans to add more regularly.

Nous Research (@NousResearch) reported that on Sep 2 @Teknium asked Hermes Agent to clean ~1.06M lines of Python; 1,393 parallel subagents finished in 19 hours, shrinking the repo to ~698k lines (−34.4%), collapsing 37 god files to 6, at about $19,302 run cost versus nearly $2M estimated eng hours. Details: nousresearch.com/refactoring-hermes-with-1393-agents.

Nous Research (@NousResearch) opened Hermes Agent for business: Hermes Business on Nous Portal lets teams share one balance with per-member spend caps and a shared skills library; Hermes Enterprise brings the same self-improving agent stack on-prem or in your cloud (SSO/SLAs). Start at portal.nousresearch.com/business.

Nous Hermes Agent v0.21.0 ships hermes cron doctor for failed/silent scheduled jobs, puts /plan in the menu with Telegram command search, adds nested todo subtasks, keeps files loaded across stepwise code runs with long outputs saved for reread, and hot-updates settings on long-lived sessions without restart.

Hermes Agent cofounder Teknium confirms hermes --resume @(claude or codex) can pick up an in-progress Claude Code or Codex session inside Hermes, so you keep the same context when switching tools.

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.

Hermes Agent expanded its built-in MCP catalog with 44 one-click connectors spanning Cloudflare, Datadog, and GitLab, introducing an on-demand Tool Search mechanism to conserve prompt context budgets.

Nous Research shipped real-profile browsing for Hermes Agent, allowing users to optionally grant the agent access to a managed copy of their logged-in Chrome profile for authenticated workflow execution.

Mem0 integrated as the dedicated long-term memory layer for Nous Hermes agents, removing the legacy 2,200-character in-prompt memory ceiling with cloud, Docker, and in-process deployment options.