# Hermes Agent 3.0 (Crazy Upgrades): HERMES Agent is TOO GOOD NOW!

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** AICodeKing
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XvM-0o3A-4
- **Дата:** 13.05.2026
- **Длительность:** 7:28
- **Просмотры:** 12,043
- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/50661

## Описание

In this video, I'll be telling you about Hermes Agent 0.13 and the new Tenacity release, which focuses on making the agent more reliable with better Kanban workflows, persistent goals, stronger security, improved provider support, and more.

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Key Takeaways:

🚀 Hermes Agent 0.13, the Tenacity release, is all about reliability, recovery, and long-running agent stability.
🗂️ The durable multi-agent Kanban system now includes heartbeats, zombie detection, retry budgets, and automatic blocking.
🎯 Slash goal keeps a persistent objective across turns so agents stay aligned during longer sessions.
💾 Checkpoints v2 improves state persistence with pruning, disk guardrails, and auto-resume after restarts.
🔒 Security gets a major boost with P0 fixes, default secret redaction, better allowlists, and stronger SSRF and log protection.
🧩 Hermes adds more platform and provider plugins, including Google Chat, OpenRouter support, and new model routes.
⚙️ Cron can now run in script-only mode, MCP gets m

## Транскрипт

### Segment 1 (00:00 - 05:00) []

— Hi. Welcome to another video. So, Hermes Agent 0. 13 is out, and this is a pretty important update. In the last Hermes video, I already covered the earlier updates and the Kanban system in detail. So, I'm not going to repeat all of that here. This one is mainly about the Tenacity release, and the main theme is simple, reliability. This update is mostly about making sure agents can keep working without losing state, drifting from the goal, crashing silently, or getting stuck forever. Now, the first big thing is the durable multi-agent Kanban system. I already explained Kanban properly in the previous video, so I will keep this short. There are heartbeats, reclaim logic, zombie detection, retry budgets, and automatic blocking when a worker exits without completing the task. If a worker crashes, disappears, or gets stuck, Hermes can detect that instead of just leaving the task in a weird state. There is also a hallucination gate and recovery UX. This is for cases where an agent says it created or completed a task, but the actual board state does not match that claim. They also added per task max retries. Overall, Kanban is no longer just a visual board. It is becoming a more durable work queue for multiple agent profiles. The next important feature is /goal. This lets Hermes keep a persistent goal across turns. That matters because agents can lose focus pretty easily during longer tasks. /goal is meant to fix that. It gives Hermes a target to keep optimizing for as the session continues. I like this addition a lot because a lot of agents are good at one step, but worse at staying aligned over time. So, this is a good direction. Then there is Checkpoints V2. This rewrites the state persistence layer with pruning and discard rails. The gateway can also auto-resume interrupted sessions after restart. So, if the gateway restarts or a session gets interrupted, Hermes has a better chance of recovering and continuing instead of losing the whole thing. This is especially important if you use Hermes through messaging platforms or as a background agent. Security also got a big update. They closed eight P0 security issues and secret redaction is now on by default. Discord role allow lists are now scoped to the originating guild. WhatsApp rejects strangers by default and avoids responding in self chat. They also improved credential right safety, MCPOAuth handling, browser protection against cloud metadata, SSRF, cron prompt injection scanning, and log redaction for debug sharing. This is not the most exciting part of the change log, but it is one of the most important parts. Now on the platform side, Hermes added Google Chat as another messaging platform. They also added more generic platform plugin hooks, so new adapters can be built without changing the core. As much IRC and Teams were also moved toward this plugin style surface. There are also new platform allow lists across Slack, Telegram, Mattermost, Matrix, and DingTalk, so you can restrict which channels, rooms, or chats are allowed to interact with Hermes. Another important change is provider plugins. Hermes now has a provider profile abstraction and a model providers plugin directory. This should make Hermes easier to extend as new providers and model routes keep showing up. They also added new model entries like DeepSeek V4 Pro, XAI Grok 4. 3, Open Router Owl Alpha, and Tencent HY3 Preview. Open Router Owl Alpha is listed as a free model route, which is nice for testing workflows without immediately spending money. No OAuth also persists across profiles now, so you can sign in once and have profiles inherit the session. There is also Open Router response caching support that can help with cost if the route and model support it. There is also a useful cost-related feature, no agent cron mode. Cron jobs can now run as script-only watchdogs without calling a model. If the script produces no output, Hermes stays silent. If it produces output, Hermes delivers it directly. This is a smart addition because not every automation needs an AI model. The tool system also got better. Hermes now does post-write delta linting after file writes and patches for Python, JSON, YAML, and TOML. So, if the agent writes a broken config file or creates a syntax error, Hermes can surface that immediately. MCP also got several improvements. There is SSE transport support, OAuth forwarding for SSE, stale pipe retries, keep-alive improvements, and better handling for image tool results. In a normal terms, MCP connections should be less fragile and multimodal tool outputs should work better. Hermes also added a video analyze tool for native video understanding on Gemini and compatible multimodal models. There is also XAI custom voices as a text-to-speech provider with voice cloning support. That is interesting for voice workflows, although voice cloning is obviously something people should use carefully. Internationalization also improved. Static gateway and CLI messages now support Chinese, Japanese, German, Spanish, French, Ukrainian, and Turkish. The doc site also gained a Chinese locale, so Hermes is becoming more accessible outside the English only developer bubble. The dashboard and TUI got some nice upgrades, too. The model picker now matches the Hermes model flow better and supports inline off. The startup banner has collapsible sections.

### Segment 2 (05:00 - 07:00) [5:00]

The status bar can show context compression count. The dashboard has a plugins page, a profiles management page, sortable analytics tables, reverse proxy support, and a new default large theme. These are quality of life improvements, but they matter. There are also ACP adapter updates for Zed, VS Code, and JetBrains. /steer and /q are now available there. /steer lets you guide an in-flight agent. /q lets you queue follow-up work. That is useful because you do not always want to interrupt an agent completely. There are also new optional skills, including Shopify, Here Now, a personal shopping assistant, Anthropic financial services skills, a Kanban video orchestrator, and SearXNG search. SearXNG also connects to the web tooling changes, where Hermes can split search, extraction, and browsing across different backends. That is useful if you care about self-hosting, privacy, or different tools for different parts of web research. Curator also got a few smaller upgrades. It now has archive, prune, and list archive subcommands. Manual curator runs are synchronous now, so you can see the result directly. Since I already covered curator before, I will not go deeper than that. So, my overall take is pretty straightforward. This release is about making Hermes less fragile. Kanban workers can be tracked and recorded. Goals can persist across turns. Sessions can resume after restart. Security defaults are stricter. Providers are more pluggable. Cron can run without wasting model calls. MCP is more reliable. And the dashboard, gateway, and IDE integrations are getting more complete. That is a solid update. It is not really a beginner-simple release, though. Hermes is becoming more powerful, but also more complex. If you only want a basic AI coding assistant, a lot of this may be overkill. But, if you want a local agent system with profiles, messaging platforms, scheduled jobs, Kanban workflows, plugins, and long-running tasks, then this is a pretty important step. Overall, I think the Tenacity release is a good name. This is not just about more features. It is about making the agent keep going when real workflows get messy. And that is exactly what agent tools need right now. Overall, it's pretty cool. Anyway, let me know your thoughts in the comments. If you like this video, consider donating through the Super Thanks option, or becoming a member by clicking the join button. Also, give this video a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel. I'll see you in the next one. Until then, bye.