Is Hermes Agent Down?

Quickest ways to check the current status of hermes-agent.nousresearch.com plus recent known issues and working alternatives if it's out.

Last editorial review: 2026-07-05

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Known issues we've tracked

RELEASE (2026-07-01): Hermes Agent v0.18.0 'The Judgment Release' shipped (GitHub tag v2026.7.1 -- the project moved to date-style tags; six minor versions since our last deep review at v0.12.0). Headlines: 100% of P0/P1 issues closed (~692 highest-priority items, zero open); work verification with evidence + completion contracts (the agent must prove tasks finished); Mixture-of-Agents selectable as first-class models; /learn and /journey self-improvement + memory commands; parallel background subagent delegation; desktop coding projects with git integration; scale-to-zero gateway
2026-07-01•GitHub release notes (github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.7.1)
RELEASE (2026-04-30): Hermes Agent v0.12.0 'Curator Release' shipped. Headline: **Autonomous Curator** -- a background agent that grades, consolidates, and prunes skills on a 7-day cycle with detailed reporting. Directly addresses the long-standing skill-pollution complaint. Plus Self-Improvement Loop (rubric-based grading + active-update bias), 5 new inference providers (GMI Cloud, Azure AI Foundry, LM Studio first-class, MiniMax OAuth, Tencent Tokenhub), Microsoft Teams + Tencent Yuanbao plugins (18th platform), ComfyUI v5 + TouchDesigner-MCP bundled by default, Spotify native tools + Google Meet plugin, ~57% reduction in TUI cold-start via lazy initialization, new Models tab dashboard with per-model analytics. **Breaking changes**: /provider and /plan slash commands REMOVED; BOOT.md built-in hook ELIMINATED (docs provide alternatives); secret redaction now requires explicit opt-in (was on by default; off-by-default avoids data corruption). 1,096 commits / 550 PRs / 213 contributors since v0.11.0
2026-04-30•GitHub release notes (github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/blob/main/RELEASE_v0.12.0.md), Nous Research X announcement
Skill pollution -- the auto-skill generator occasionally creates overlapping or contradictory skills that degrade behavior over weeks of use, requires manual pruning. **Note (2026-04-30):** v0.12.0 Curator Release adds the Autonomous Curator background agent that consolidates and prunes skills on a 7-day cycle -- this issue is now substantially mitigated for v0.12.0+ users
2026-03•Hugging Face discuss thread
Gateway process memory usage grows with subagent count -- heavy parallelization on small VPS can OOM without warning
2026-04•GitHub Issues

Issues here are sourced from our editorial sweeps, not real-time telemetry. Newer issues may exist.

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About Hermes Agent

Tier A (8.4/10). Nous Research's self-improving autonomous agent -- persistent memory, auto-generated skills, five sandbox backends. v0.18.0 'Judgment Release' (2026-07-01) adds work verification with evidence contracts, Mixture-of-Agents as selectable models, /learn + /journey self-improvement commands, and parallel background subagents