Hermes Agent just shipped v0.16.0 — the Surface Release. 188K stars. Brand new native desktop app for Mac, Linux, and Windows. Full browser-based web dashboard at 127.0.0.1:9119. And Quick Setup via Nous Portal to get from install to first message in seconds. It’s no longer just a terminal tool.
— FREE PDF GUIDE (install + full v0.16.0 walkthrough)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vgM6TmaThxOcOD26ccXsSxwgj1XDXttL/view?usp=drivesdk
— INSTALL HERMES AGENT v0.16.0
macOS / Linux / WSL2 / Termux:
curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash
Windows PowerShell:
iex (irm https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.ps1)
Then Quick Setup via Nous Portal:
hermes setup –portal
Or just start chatting:
hermes
— GITHUB REPO
https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent
188K stars — 32.3K forks — MIT License — Python
Author: Nous Research (teknium1)
Tagline: “The agent that grows with you”
— v0.16.0 SURFACE RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS
1. Hermes Desktop — brand-new native macOS/Linux/Windows Electron app. One-click install, in-app self-update, drag-and-drop files into chat, inline model picker, concurrent multi-profile sessions, full Simplified Chinese translation, remote-gateway OAuth/user-pass login
2. Web Dashboard admin panel — browser UI at 127.0.0.1:9119 (run: hermes dashboard). Pages: Status, Chat, Config, API Keys, Sessions, Logs, Analytics, Cron, Skills, MCP catalog, Webhooks, Memory, Pairing, Channels, System. Pluggable OIDC or username-password login.
3. Quick Setup via Nous Portal — hermes setup –portal gets you from install to first message in seconds: OAuth login, Nous as provider, Tool Gateway enabled (web search, image gen, TTS, cloud browser)
4. Fuzzy-searchable model picker everywhere (desktop, web, TUI, CLI)
5. /undo command — take back the last N turns
6. NVIDIA/skills joined the trusted Skills Hub taps
7. Default skill set trimmed to what you actually need
8. Security: CVE-2026-48710 Starlette pin, SSRF off-loop hardening, subprocess credential stripping
— SINCE v0.15.2
874 commits — 542 merged PRs — 205K insertions — 399 issues closed (2 P0, 62 P1, 16 security) — 170 contributors
— CORE COMMANDS
hermes — interactive CLI
hermes setup –portal — Quick Setup via Nous Portal (new)
hermes dashboard — web admin panel at 127.0.0.1:9119 (new)
hermes desktop — launch native desktop app (new)
hermes model — pick LLM provider/model (fuzzy search)
hermes gateway start — Telegram/Discord/Slack/WhatsApp/Signal bot
/undo — take back last N turns (new)
— DOCS
https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com
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