Your Hermes Agent Now Has a Pet. It Does Nothing—And That’s the Point
Nous Research added animated mascot sprites to the self-improving AI agent—and the only thing they do is look cute while your AI works.
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Nous Research has added a Blank Slate setup mode to its open-source Hermes Agent. It starts an agent with everything off except provider, model, File Operations, and Terminal. You opt in to the rest. The post Nous Research Updates Hermes Agent With a Blank Slate Mode That Pins Toolsets via platform_toolsets.cli and disabled_toolsets appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Read full articleNous Research added animated mascot sprites to the self-improving AI agent—and the only thing they do is look cute while your AI works.
Nous Research has added /learn to the Hermes Agent Skills System. The command authors a standards-compliant SKILL.md from a local directory, a doc URL, a past conversation, or pasted notes. The live agent sources the material with its own tools, then writes the skill — no hand-writing and no separate ingestion engine. Here is how it works, where it fits, and what to review before trusting the output. The post Nous Research Adds /learn to Hermes Agent’s Skills System, Capturing Workflows as Slash Commands Without Hand-Writing SKILL.md appeared first on MarkTechPost.
We look at Hermes Agent's new asynchronous subagents from Nous Research. The delegate tool can now spawn background agents that no longer block the parent chat. We walk through the async_delegation toolset tracked in issue #5586, covering how to spawn, check, steer, and collect tasks. We also cover subagent isolation, the synchronous-versus-asynchronous tradeoffs, and when to reach for ACP instead The post Hermes Agent Adds Asynchronous Subagents, So Delegated Work No Longer Blocks the Parent Chat appeared first on MarkTechPost.
The affordable Aero Hand Open democratizes AI research, enabling broader experimentation and innovation in robotic dexterity studies. The post TetherIA launches $314 open-source Aero Hand Open for AI research appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
The export controls on Anthropic's AI models could hinder U.S. cybersecurity efforts and boost open-source alternatives, impacting industry dynamics. The post Cyber leaders urge US to lift curbs on Anthropic’s security models appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Kimi-K2.7-Code's efficiency and open-source nature could democratize AI-driven coding, reducing costs and enhancing accessibility for developers. The post Kimi AI releases open-source K2.7 Code model with 1 trillion parameters on APIs and Hugging Face appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
The Hermes Agent dashboard now builds complete agent profiles in one flow, replacing multi-step CLI setup for users. The post Nous Research Ships Hermes Agent Profile Builder: Identity, Model, Skills, and MCP Servers in One Dashboard Flow appeared first on MarkTechPost.
June 5, 2026 — Cohere has announced the public release of co/plot, an open-source data visualization tool designed to help researchers iterate on charts and figures more efficiently. Developed and […] The post Cohere Shares Internal Visualization Tool with Open-Source Community appeared first on AIwire.