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Nous Research Ships Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, Turning Agent Profiles Into a Roster of Named Bots - MarkTechPost
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Nous Research has shipped Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, its MIT-licensed open source agent. Bot Mode replaces the single-agent session list with a roster of named bots. Each bot is a real Hermes profile, with its own chat, memory, skills, and pinned model. Bots message each other through a persistent Agent Inbox and hand work off by @mention. The feature launched as a one-day public beta plugin from co-founder Teknium. It now ships bundled and default-on inside Hermes Desktop, in Hermes Agent v0.20.3.
Is it deployable?
Yes — today, on a desktop, at no license cost. Bot Mode shipped first as a one-day public beta plugin. It is now bundled and default-on inside Hermes Desktop, under Settings → Plugins. Both Hermes Agent and the plugin are MIT licensed.
Which companies: Solo builders, startups, and small-to-mid engineering teams can adopt it immediately. Enterprises should treat it as a workstation tool, not managed infrastructure. There is no admin console, no SSO, no central audit log, and no policy layer. Regulated buyers will need their own controls around it.
Industries: Software engineering, AI research labs, technical media and content operations, developer relations, quantitative research, and IT operations.
Applications: A research bot pinned to a reasoning model beside a writing bot on a cheaper one. Scheduled inbox digests and nightly reports. Per-project agents that never leak context into each other. Handoff chains where a scout, a reviewer, and a publisher pass work by @mention.
How it works under the hood
The interesting point here is that a bot is a Hermes profile. Each one lives under ~/.hermes/profiles/<name>/ with isolated config, memory, skills, credentials, and chat history. The plugin is a user interface over a primitive Hermes already shipped.
That choice keeps the surface area small. Creation and editing ride the profiles.* gateway RPCs: list, create, describe, configure. Avatar generation uses the image.generate RPC over local and remote gateways. Routines are ordinary Hermes cron jobs, namespaced [bot:<name>] <routine>. They still appear in hermes cron list.
Bot-to-bot messaging is the same story. Every bot has a persistent Agent Inbox conversation. Messages between bots are real CLI handoffs: hermes -p <bot> chat -c "Agent Inbox" -q "...". They arrive with attribution, and each bot’s SOUL.md teaches the reply protocol. Typing @researcher have a look at this makes the active bot hand off and report back.
Configuration you actually get per bot
The New Agent dialog asks for name, title, and description. An Advanced disclosure opens the full profile config. You can clone an existing profile, pin a provider and model, write a custom SOUL.md, or skip skills. Right-clicking a bot exposes Edit Profile, which edits the live profile. That covers per-skill and per-toolset enablement, the model pin, and the SOUL.md. Duplicate clones config, skills, SOUL.md, memory, and appearance.
Avatars are geometric faces in seven shapes and ten colors. You can also upload an image, generate a portrait, or attach a pixel pet. The eyes scan while the bot works.
From one-day beta to bundled default
The rollout was fast. Teknium ran a one-day public beta through the standalone plugin and asked for bug reports. He committed to folding it into the main desktop app. That has now happened. Per hermes-agent PR #87886, Bot Mode is bundled and default-on, and the standalone repository is archived. Development continues in-tree at apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/. The bundled plugin and its core teammate protocol landed in Hermes Agent v0.20.3.
The in-tree version added capability the beta did not have. Groups organise the roster into labeled sections that sync across machines. Group chats open a shared room for two to six bots. Your message triggers up to three serial rounds of member turns. Mentioned bots respond, everyone responds when nobody is mentioned, and each bot replies briefly or passes. A multi-source roster pulls bots from every connection under Settings → Connections.
Interactive explainer
Key Takeaways
- Bot Mode turns each Hermes profile into a named bot with its own chat, memory, and model.
- A bot is just a profile at ~/.hermes/profiles/<name>/ — no new storage layer.
- Bots message each other through real CLI handoffs into a persistent Agent Inbox.
- Group chats coordinate two to six bots over a maximum of three serial rounds.
- It shipped from one-day beta to bundled default-on Desktop plugin in Hermes Agent v0.20.3.
Introducing Bot Mode for Hermes Desktop.
Your agent profiles become a series of named Bots. Each Bot has its own role, model, memory, skills and profile picture; Bots can use any model and even communicate with each other.
Build a specialist Bot once to use it forever. pic.twitter.com/AYWD9Ro2I1
— Nous Research (@NousResearch) August 17, 2026
Check out the Hermes-Bot-Mode repository, hermes-agent, Hermes Agent site, Hermes Agent docs, and Teknium’s announcement. Also, feel free to follow us on Twitter and don’t forget to join our 150k+ML SubReddit and Subscribe to our Newsletter. Wait! are you on telegram? now you can join us on telegram as well.
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- Agentic AI
- AI Agents
- Technology
- AI Shorts
- Artificial Intelligence
- Applications
- Language Model
- Large Language Model
- New Releases
- Open Source
- Tech News
Nous Research has shipped Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, its MIT-licensed open source agent. Bot Mode replaces the single-agent session list with a roster of named bots. Each bot is a real Hermes profile, with its own chat, memory, skills, and pinned model. Bots message each other through a persistent Agent Inbox and hand work off by @mention. The feature launched as a one-day public beta plugin from co-founder Teknium. It now ships bundled and default-on inside Hermes Desktop, in Hermes Agent v0.20.3.
Is it deployable?
Yes — today, on a desktop, at no license cost. Bot Mode shipped first as a one-day public beta plugin. It is now bundled and default-on inside Hermes Desktop, under Settings → Plugins. Both Hermes Agent and the plugin are MIT licensed.
Which companies: Solo builders, startups, and small-to-mid engineering teams can adopt it immediately. Enterprises should treat it as a workstation tool, not managed infrastructure. There is no admin console, no SSO, no central audit log, and no policy layer. Regulated buyers will need their own controls around it.
Industries: Software engineering, AI research labs, technical media and content operations, developer relations, quantitative research, and IT operations.
Applications: A research bot pinned to a reasoning model beside a writing bot on a cheaper one. Scheduled inbox digests and nightly reports. Per-project agents that never leak context into each other. Handoff chains where a scout, a reviewer, and a publisher pass work by @mention.
How it works under the hood
The interesting point here is that a bot is a Hermes profile. Each one lives under ~/.hermes/profiles/<name>/ with isolated config, memory, skills, credentials, and chat history. The plugin is a user interface over a primitive Hermes already shipped.
That choice keeps the surface area small. Creation and editing ride the profiles.* gateway RPCs: list, create, describe, configure. Avatar generation uses the image.generate RPC over local and remote gateways. Routines are ordinary Hermes cron jobs, namespaced [bot:<name>] <routine>. They still appear in hermes cron list.
Bot-to-bot messaging is the same story. Every bot has a persistent Agent Inbox conversation. Messages between bots are real CLI handoffs: hermes -p <bot> chat -c "Agent Inbox" -q "...". They arrive with attribution, and each bot’s SOUL.md teaches the reply protocol. Typing @researcher have a look at this makes the active bot hand off and report back.
Configuration you actually get per bot
The New Agent dialog asks for name, title, and description. An Advanced disclosure opens the full profile config. You can clone an existing profile, pin a provider and model, write a custom SOUL.md, or skip skills. Right-clicking a bot exposes Edit Profile, which edits the live profile. That covers per-skill and per-toolset enablement, the model pin, and the SOUL.md. Duplicate clones config, skills, SOUL.md, memory, and appearance.
Avatars are geometric faces in seven shapes and ten colors. You can also upload an image, generate a portrait, or attach a pixel pet. The eyes scan while the bot works.
From one-day beta to bundled default
The rollout was fast. Teknium ran a one-day public beta through the standalone plugin and asked for bug reports. He committed to folding it into the main desktop app. That has now happened. Per hermes-agent PR #87886, Bot Mode is bundled and default-on, and the standalone repository is archived. Development continues in-tree at apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/. The bundled plugin and its core teammate protocol landed in Hermes Agent v0.20.3.
The in-tree version added capability the beta did not have. Groups organise the roster into labeled sections that sync across machines. Group chats open a shared room for two to six bots. Your message triggers up to three serial rounds of member turns. Mentioned bots respond, everyone responds when nobody is mentioned, and each bot replies briefly or passes. A multi-source roster pulls bots from every connection under Settings → Connections.
Interactive explainer
Key Takeaways
- Bot Mode turns each Hermes profile into a named bot with its own chat, memory, and model.
- A bot is just a profile at ~/.hermes/profiles/<name>/ — no new storage layer.
- Bots message each other through real CLI handoffs into a persistent Agent Inbox.
- Group chats coordinate two to six bots over a maximum of three serial rounds.
- It shipped from one-day beta to bundled default-on Desktop plugin in Hermes Agent v0.20.3.
Introducing Bot Mode for Hermes Desktop.
Your agent profiles become a series of named Bots. Each Bot has its own role, model, memory, skills and profile picture; Bots can use any model and even communicate with each other.
Build a specialist Bot once to use it forever. pic.twitter.com/AYWD9Ro2I1
— Nous Research (@NousResearch) August 17, 2026
Check out the Hermes-Bot-Mode repository, hermes-agent, Hermes Agent site, Hermes Agent docs, and Teknium’s announcement. Also, feel free to follow us on Twitter and don’t forget to join our 150k+ML SubReddit and Subscribe to our Newsletter. Wait! are you on telegram? now you can join us on telegram as well.
Need to partner with us for promoting your GitHub Repo OR Hugging Face Page OR Product Release OR Webinar etc.? Connect with us
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Michal Sutter is a data science professional with a Master of Science in Data Science from the University of Padova. With a solid foundation in statistical analysis, machine learning, and data engineering, Michal excels at transforming complex datasets into actionable insights.
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AIHOT 摘要
Nous Research 为开源智能体 Hermes Agent 推出 Bot Mode，将单一智能体会话列表替换为一组命名机器人，每个机器人拥有独立的聊天、记忆、技能和固定模型，并可通过持久化 Agent Inbox 和 @提及 相互通信。
为什么值得关注
它把每个机器人当作一个既有 Hermes profile，没有新增存储层，机器人之间通过真实 CLI 交接和持久 Agent Inbox 协作，使现有配置能直接升级成多机器人工作流。
工程化解读
从 TopoReduce 的工程视角看，这条信息属于“智能体与自动化”主题。它的价值不只在于一个新产品或新观点本身，还在于说明 AI 系统正在如何影响模型接入、智能体协作、研发流程、基础设施和团队决策。实际采用前，应结合原文确认版本、适用范围、价格和运行条件。
- 发布时间：2026-08-18；AIHOT 分类：智能体与自动化。
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- AIHOT 判断：它把每个机器人当作一个既有 Hermes profile，没有新增存储层，机器人之间通过真实 CLI 交接和持久 Agent Inbox 协作，使现有配置能直接升级成多机器人工作流。
- AIHOT 评分：51；评分用于站内排序，不等同于独立评测结论。
TopoReduce 编辑观察
当 AI 动态进入真实生产环境，团队需要同时关注能力边界、数据来源、调用成本、权限控制和可回滚性。把单条新闻放回完整工程链路中阅读，比只看标题更有助于判断它是否适合自己的产品和工作流。