Hermes Agent 0.23.1 released
A patch release that fixes plugin catalog discovery and raises the catalog size limit from 2 MiB to 16 MiB.
What changed in 0.23.1
- Plugin catalog now uses live updates instead of falling back to shipped version when catalog exceeds size limits.
- Plugin installation finds recently added plugins and installs current versions instead of outdated pins.
- Includes approximately 618 merged changes and 2,578 commits since the previous version.
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 is the latest stable release we track. |
| Release pace | 11 stable releases in the last 30 days; 0.23.1 came 5 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 |
