BlogDeep-dives into AI infrastructure, prompt engineering, and the tools we build.
Tool Search hides MCP and plugin tools behind BM25 bridges in Hermes Agent. 226-tool catalog drops from 53,994 to 2,289 tokens - a 95.8% reduction.
Ara launched an IDE powered by Hermes Agent, Desktop v1.0 arrived after 1.8k stars and a month of dogfooding, and the community wants more tutorials.
ComfyUI's Hermes Agent design workflow hits 3.1K impressions. Julian Goldie SEO's Hermes+Obsidian memory stack gains 1.9K impressions. Elkim ships Fluxer Discord-like plugin. Memory architecture dominates conversation.
Tool Search cuts context from 41% to 3%. Skills self-patch on mismatch. Agent capabilities are becoming dynamic and self-maintaining.
16 headless browsers tested against detect-bot's three-phase detection pipeline. CloakBrowser (40) and botasaurus (55) lead the static phase — but behavioral analysis catches nearly everything.
Same concept, 13 diagram-as-code tools, one API. Mermaid, D2, PlantUML, Graphviz, Excalidraw compared side by side through Kroki.
RTX Spark partnership hits 195 likes. Memory architecture deep dives detail Hermes's layered design: two capped files, frozen prompt, compression flush.
Hermes Agent runs fully local on Qwen 3.6 27B. NotebookLM + Hermes content pipeline hits 905 impressions. Raycast QuickLink tip surfaces. SkillOS demonstrates on-chain proof of skill with no private key.
7 anti-detection browsers tested against detect-bot Phase 1-3. Playwright vanilla scored -140/100 on fingerprint signals but 100/100 on behavioral.
Static fingerprints catch Playwright instantly but anti-detection browsers slip through. Behavioral analysis reveals Playwright passes: it moves the mouse.
We tested 6 headless browsers against 18 detection signals. Every single one failed on performance.now() integer-only precision. The best score: 65/100.
Hermes v0.15 shrinks the core from 16K to 3.8K lines, adds multi-agent Kanban swarm, and speeds search 4,500x. Community builds cron workflows on top.
write_file and patch now stream to a temp file, then atomic-rename over the target. A crash mid-write leaves the original intact - no more corrupt files.
Google shipped a read-only MCP server for Ads in early 2026. A fork added write support. Commercial options followed. Here is the landscape.
Context overhead dropped from 41% to 3% with Tool Search bridge tools; MCP startup went from 7.5s to 115ms; file writes are now atomic.
Tool Search is live and driving a 41%→3% context savings. Korean developer ships local dashboard UI. Step 3.7 Flash free for Hermes Agent users. Community builders shipping plugins.
v0.15.0 adds an interactive MCP catalog with one-keystroke install and Skill Bundles loading multiple skills under one slash command. 747 PRs, 321 contributors.
Chamath argues AI makes every moat temporary, collapsing terminal value. The capital doesn't vanish - it flows to startups and assets that don't need moats.
Cron jobs run with no memory, no prior messages, and no ambient context. Here is the exact difference and how to write self-contained prompts.
Hermes Agent can join Discord voice channels for live voice conversations, using Whisper STT and ElevenLabs or local TTS. Setup takes three slash commands.
Hermes Agent hit 90K GitHub stars as v0.15.0 ships 69 plugin manifests. Step 3.7 Flash lands for agentic workflows. Community roundup.
Tokenizer mismatch drops GSM8k from 12.89 to 2.56 during distillation. X-Token fixes it with a projection matrix and two new loss formulations.
Hermes Agent ships a built-in MCP Catalog with curated, pre-vetted server entries. One command installs n8n or Linear with pre-filtered tools and managed OAuth.
Hermes Desktop hits 1.6K stars, RunwayML MCP music video, specialist agents, and Dutch enterprises onboarding Hermes in production.
Hermes Agent ports Anthropic's security-guidance plugin: 25 rules catch unsafe deserialization, command injection, and XSS at write time. Zero LLM tokens.
Every component, plugin, and cron job in a production Hermes Agent setup, mapped and explained for replication from scratch.
Hermes Agent crossed a threshold this week: agents fixing agents, resurrecting decade-old phones, and running production workloads on 1M+ visitor sites.
Community desktop app turns Hermes into a 20-specialist multi-agent system with task decomposition, visual Skill Store, and orchestration.
GBrain's 30-page knowledge graph wired into AxDSan's Mnemosyne: a 113-char digest for ambient awareness, and relevance-gated page injection on first turn. Zero MCP calls.
Bridging OpenRouter's async video generation webhooks to Hermes Agent with a Cloudflare Worker signature translator and localhost tunnel.
GBrain runs at 250ms per CLI-spawned operation. Mnemosyne runs at 2ms in-process. The difference is architecture, not implementation quality.
Mnemosyne's sleep consolidation cycle scored +70.8pp on BEAM multi-hop reasoning with 0.076ms SQLite reads. Zero cloud dependencies, zero cold start.
Prompt caching cuts LLM input costs by up to 90% and TTFT by 80%, but only exact-prefix matches count. How production agents structure prompts for maximum cache hits.
A 3-layer memory stack earned 183 likes and 270 bookmarks. Hermes Desktop open-sourced. OpenClaw users migrating. Roundup of Hermes Agent on X.
Instrumenting the pre_gateway_dispatch hook to log every skill injection decision — score, skip reason, and top-3 matches — so we can tune the threshold with data instead of guessing.
semantic-skills v2 pre-loads skills into user messages via pre_gateway_dispatch hook. System prompt stays at 226 tokens, cache-friendly. No first-turn tool call needed.
A deep dive into the three-tier system prompt architecture inside Hermes Agent — how it works, why it costs 6,000+ tokens per session, and how we cut that by 95%.