Hermes Agent v0.20.6 (v2026.8.27)
- Consent-gated real-profile browsing using your default Chromium profile for local browsing with Windows close-with-approval flow
- Desktop Browser with its own OS window and managed SSH remote-update engine
- Fleet profile rail for desktop Browser
- Remote MCP catalog expansion with 50+ live-verified vendor-hosted servers including Cloudflare, Grafana Cloud, Better Stack, and Railway
- TTL result caching for web_search and web_extract tools
- Multi-query tool_search with stemming
- Opt-in OS-keychain encryption for stored secrets
- Pluggable terminal environment backends
- New models across the pickers including GLM-5.3-Flash, MiniMax M3 free, and MiniMax H3 Max video
- Lean-tail compression set as the default
- Updaters now pause gateways over the control socket instead of tree-killing them
- Slack link-unfurl controls enhanced
- Shared Docker container identities implemented
- Cron durable-incident acknowledgments and clearer code-skew failure reporting
- Image and package-managed installs now refuse unsafe in-place updates
- Per-launch macOS Keychain prompts eliminated with opt-in OS-keychain encryption
From hermes-agent
Release Date: August 27, 2026
Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~525 PRs merged since v0.20.5 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, hosted deployments, fresh installs).
About this release
Since v0.20.5 (v2026.8.19, tagged August 21), this window landed ~1,313 commits across ~1,557 files (+177,113 / −21,682) — ~525 merged PRs including consent-gated real-profile browsing (use your default Chromium profile for local browsing, with Windows close-with-approval flow); the desktop Browser getting its own OS window plus a managed SSH remote-update engine and fleet profile rail; a large remote MCP catalog expansion (50+ live-verified vendor-hosted servers incl. Cloudflare, Grafana Cloud, Better Stack, Railway); TTL result caching for web_search/web_extract; lean-tail compression as the default; multi-query tool_search with stemming; opt-in OS-keychain encryption for stored secrets (no more per-launch macOS Keychain prompts); updaters pausing gateways over the control socket instead of tree-killing them; image/package-managed installs refusing unsafe in-place updates (#91277 Phase 3); cron durable-incident acks and clearer code-skew failures; Slack link-unfurl controls; shared Docker container identities; pluggable terminal environment backends; and new models across the pickers (GLM-5.3-Flash, MiniMax M3 free, MiniMax H3 Max video).
Full curated release notes for this window will ship with v0.21.0, which will document everything from v0.20.0 onward — highlights, feature areas, and complete contributor credits. Nothing in this window is skipped.
Updating
hermes updatefrom an existing install- Fresh install:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
Full Changelog: v2026.8.19...v2026.8.27