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Nous Research co-founder Teknium releases Hermes Agent v0.18.0 with integrated Mixture of Agents and a learning engine

The major update adds a visualization tool and Gemini Vertex support

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Teknium 🪽@Teknium#331inTech

Hermes Agent v0.18.0 is here. The Judgement Release.

This release includes a lot of powerful new features:

- Mixture of Agents as a first class virtual model, to take you beyond the frontier - /learn to teach your agent anything from open ended sources - Journey to visualize how your agent learned - Gemini Vertex is now a supported provider - Fable 5, Sonnet 5, and Fugu are now available - Projects support in the desktop app to focus in and build

and a ton more, including our team clearing ALL P0 and P1 issues for the first time since our project took off!

Check it out:

Nous Research@NousResearch

Hermes Agent v0.18.0 - The Judgement Release

Changelog below:

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300 contributors helped make this release possible.

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Full release notes:

https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.7.1

Teknium 🪽@Teknium

Hermes Agent v0.18.0 is here. The Judgement Release.

This release includes a lot of powerful new features:

and a ton more, including our team clearing ALL P0 and P1 issues for the first time since our project took off!

Check it out:

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Teknium 🪽@Teknium

Hermes Agent v0.18.0 is here. The Judgement Release.

This release includes a lot of powerful new features:

and a ton more, including our team clearing ALL P0 and P1 issues for the first time since our project took off!

Check it out:

Nous Research@NousResearch

Hermes Agent v0.18.0 - The Judgement Release

Changelog below:

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Brad Mills 🔑⚡️@bradmillscan

@Teknium Looking forward to trying this after the gym.

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Tempo@tempoapes

@Teknium is hermes usable now? last time i tried doing something with it, it kept mixing my sessions

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Ryan Dale@rot13maxi

@Teknium I read the title and assumed it would be a persona that judges me for the dumb shit I ask for. kinda disappointed tbh

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May Contain Nuts@mccannst

@Teknium Meanwhile at OpenClaw

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Christopher@SNARKAMOTO

@Teknium Proud to have contributed to this legend. Huge respect to everyone building, especially the maintainer/s! The rate of activity in this repo is nuclear 😂

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Jarrod Smith@jsmith71_au

@Teknium Does it work with @grok or do you need the Grok APi?

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Jihoon@jihoonhci

@Teknium @grok what is fugu

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Ben Vargas@benvargas

@Teknium You guys have nailed the update process, so smooth...

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Samuel@AccordingToSamu

@Teknium @grok What is considered a P0 / P1 issue for Hermes Agent?

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Tony Simons@tonysimons_

@Teknium Dat changelog though!

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Teknium 🪽@Teknium

@cyburke Just extra usage unfortunately!

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safrano9999@souly9999

@Teknium You know bro what I like, just inject the api_key (can be shadowed via proxy) like XAI_API_KEY . Hermes will check its openai v1 url, and if 400 adds the cataloge thats just awesome logics ❤️

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