Artificial Intelligence · 18.08.2026, 02:10 UTC
Nous Research Ships Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, Turning Agent Profiles Into a Roster of Named Bots
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| Kategorie | Artificial Intelligence |
| Quelle | MarkTechPost ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 18.08.2026 UTC |
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Nous Research has shipped Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, its MIT-licensed open source agent. Bot Mode replaces the single-agent session list with a roster of named bots. Each bot is a real Hermes profile, with its own chat, memory, skills, and pinned model. Bots message each other through a persistent Agent Inbox and hand work off by @mention. The feature launched as a one-day public beta plugin from co-founder Teknium. It now ships bundled and default-on inside Hermes Desktop, in Hermes Agent v0.20.3.
Is it deployable?
Yes — today, on a desktop, at no license cost. Bot Mode shipped first as a one-day public beta plugin. It is now bundled and default-on inside Hermes Desktop, under Settings → Plugins. Both Hermes Agent and the plugin are MIT licensed.
Which companies: Solo builders, startups, and small-to-mid engineering teams can adopt it immediately. Enterprises should treat it as a workstation tool, not managed infrastructure. There is no admin console, no SSO, no central audit log, and no policy layer. Regulated buyers will need their own controls around it.
Industries: Software engineering, AI research labs, technical media and content operations, developer relations, quantitative research, and IT operations.
Applications: A research bot pinned to a reasoning model beside a writing bot on a cheaper one. Scheduled inbox digests and nightly reports. Per-project agents that never leak context into each other. Handoff chains where a scout, a reviewer, and a publisher pass work by @mention.
How it works under the hood
The interesting point here is that a bot is a Hermes …