Hermes Agent 0.21.7 released
A patch release bundling 204 merged improvements across desktop, store, and cloud platforms with update channel selection and session resume fixes.
What changed in 0.21.7
- Source installs now update to tagged releases instead of every commit on main; choose your channel (Stable or Every commit) in Settings.
- Reasoning and signed thinking now persist when resuming chat sessions, and Bedrock Converse reasoning models work on resumed sessions.
- Update checks no longer fail behind certain firewalls by using your GitHub token when available and properly reporting rate limits.
Summarised by AgentGid from Nous Research's official release notes on GitHub, as reported there; read the original before relying on it. Price, status and release dates come from our daily data.
Hermes Agent at a glance
| What it is | Open-source self-improving agent from Nous Research that keeps persistent memory, creates and refines skills from experience, runs scheduled automations, and works from a terminal interface or messaging apps such as Tel… |
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| Latest version | 0.22.6, Nov 2, 2026. This page is about an earlier release. |
| Release pace | 9 stable releases in the last 30 days; 0.21.7 came 4 days after the previous one |
| Price | Free (OSS). Free and open source (MIT); users pay their chosen model providers (Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI or custom endpoints). Official pricing ↗ (checked Oct 5, 2026) |
| Downloads, last 7 days | 39.6K — |
| Gid Score | 64 #9 in General-purpose AI agents |
