Changelog
Hermes Agent v0.17.0
The "Reach" release — v0.16.0 put Hermes on your desktop; this one is about how far that reach extends. iMessage, the Raft agent network, background subagents and team administration.
Added
- Hermes reaches iMessage — Photon Spectrum, no Mac relay required
- Raft — Hermes joins the Raft agent network as a gateway channel
- A substantially more capable desktop app
- Background / async subagents — delegate work and keep going
- Edit images, not just generate them — image-to-image in image_generate
- Automation Blueprints — schedule things without learning cron
- Cursor's Composer model, through your xAI Grok subscription
- Full profile builder in the dashboard
- Skills Hub browser rehaul
- The memory tool got a major upgrade — atomic batch operations
- Secure dashboard login
- Official WhatsApp Business Cloud API adapter
- Rich text for Telegram — Bot API 10.1 rich messages
- Curator cost optimization — no aux-model spend on routine runs
Before you upgrade
Snapshot the server first — Hermes ships often and not every release is quiet. Then:
hermes update
Re-run hermes doctor afterwards. If the upgrade leaves you with a
broken install, the fixes section covers the failures
that come up most.
Official release notes on GitHub →