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v2026.8.3

📦 hermes-agentView on GitHub →
✨ 23 features🐛 1 fixes🔧 2 symbols

Summary

The Herald Release introduces significant advancements in voice interaction, agent-to-agent communication, and research integrity. Key features include real-time conversational voice, grounded citations, and a transformed desktop application into a platform.

Migration Steps

  1. Migrate Claude Code or Codex CLI setup to Hermes using `hermes import-agent`.

✨ New Features

  • Real-time conversational voice with streaming TTS, barge-in, and on-device wake words.
  • Agent-to-Agent (A2A) v1.0 protocol for inter-agent communication.
  • Signed outbound webhooks for event notifications to external systems.
  • Grounded research with verifiable citations and fact-checking capabilities.
  • Desktop app transformed into a platform with artifact rendering (live preview), a plugin SDK, quick-entry from anywhere, and multiple windows.
  • CLI enhancements including `!` shell mode, `/init`, `/diff`, `/context`, and `/focus` commands.
  • Smarter and gentler compression algorithms.
  • Tool recovery from failures without requiring model intervention.
  • Voice mode in CLI, desktop, and gateway platforms with clause-by-clause streaming and interruption (barge-in).
  • On-device wake word detection for hands-free control.
  • Multi-profile voice routing based on wake words.
  • Voice note transcription and answering across multiple messaging platforms (WhatsApp, Feishu, DingTalk, LINE, QQ, Photon, Weixin).
  • Configurable Speech-to-Text (STT) with a dedicated `hermes tools` category, GUI toggles, dashboard dropdowns, unified language resolution, and OpenAI's gpt-transcribe support.
  • Unified spoken-text preprocessor for cleaning markdown, code, and URLs from speech.
  • New `grounded-citations` skill for research with verifiable sources and fact-checking.
  • Outbound webhooks for pushing signed lifecycle events (session activity, turn completions, tool events) to registered HTTP endpoints.
  • Desktop app now renders versioned artifacts with sandboxed live preview.
  • Plugin SDK for desktop app, with Kanban as a founding plugin.
  • Global-hotkey quick-entry window for capturing thoughts into any session from anywhere in the OS.
  • Bundled plugin for Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol.
  • CLI command `hermes import-agent` to migrate Claude Code or Codex CLI setups.
  • Ability to correct the agent mid-turn by providing new guidance without restarting the turn.
  • Double-ESC draft discard and composer undo stack for easier prompt editing.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Infrastructure patch tag v0.19.1 incorporated.

Affected Symbols

hermes toolsctx.download