Hermes Agent 0.22.5 released
A patch release consolidating 81 merged pull requests and 30 closed issues since the previous version.
What changed in 0.22.5
- Nous sign-in reworked: device login is now the standard method, guest accounts transfer to your account, and connectors offer sign-in options.
- Windows launcher no longer remains stuck on the old version after Python updates.
- Usage-window plan support added with plan gauges, limit cards and model-switch recovery.
- Pluggable delegation backends allow routing subagents by model map or profile, switchable per session.
- Plugin slash commands can now ask users to pick from options; Desktop sidebar supports drag-to-pin and one-click plugin installs with tier badges.
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; 0.22.5 came 2 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 |
