Hermes Agent 0.23.0 released
A major release that unifies all Hermes surfaces through a single gateway and adds browser-based desktop access.
What changed in 0.23.0
- Desktop workspace now accessible in any web browser served by your local gateway, with the same chats and plugins across devices.
- All interfaces (CLI, TUI, Desktop, editors, bots, cron) now connect to one gateway per machine, eliminating duplicate messages and session conflicts.
- Terminal displays images inline with support for kitty, Ghostty, iTerm2, WezTerm and Konsole, plus full resolution in VS Code terminal.
- Rewind conversations by pressing Esc twice or typing
/rewindto edit earlier messages or fork a new session from any point. - Desktop connects all your gateways at once for instant switching between machines; Group Chats can mix bots from different hosts.
Check before you update
- Old browser tools removed: switch prompts, skills and toolsets from agent-browser and browser_* tools to browser_exec only.
- Desktop requires macOS 13+ and 64-bit Windows (Electron 44 dropped older versions).
- Command changed from
hermes mcp servetohermes mcp-serve; MCP clients launching Hermes as server must update their configuration.
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 agent from Nous Research, described by its makers as self-improving, that keeps persistent memory, creates and refines skills from experience, runs scheduled automations, and works from a terminal interface … |
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| Latest version | 0.23.1, Nov 10, 2026. This page is about an earlier release. |
| Release pace | 11 stable releases in the last 30 days; 0.23.0 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 Nov 5, 2026) |
| Downloads, last 7 days | 90.3K up 127.9% |
| Gid Score | 65 #10 in General-purpose AI agents |
