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Nous Research ships Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, enabling named AI bots

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Nous Research has released Bot Mode for its open-source Hermes Agent, allowing users to create and manage multiple named AI bots. Each bot functions as a distinct profile with its own chat history, memory, skills, and assigned model. These bots can communicate with each other through a persistent inbox and hand off tasks using @mentions, enhancing collaborative AI workflows. AI

IMPACT Enhances AI agent collaboration by allowing multiple specialized bots to work together on tasks.

RANK_REASON This is a feature release for an existing open-source agent, not a new frontier model release or significant industry event.

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Nous Research ships Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, enabling named AI bots

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. MarkTechPost TIER_1 English(EN) · Michal Sutter ·

    Nous Research Ships Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, Turning Agent Profiles Into a Roster of Named Bots

    <p>Nous Research has shipped Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, its MIT-licensed open source agent. Bot Mode replaces the single-agent session list with a roster of named bots. Each bot is a real Hermes profile, with its own chat, memory, skills, and pinned model. It is now bundled and d…

  2. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Nous Research has launched Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, letting users create multiple named AI bots with individual chat histories, memory, skills and pinned mode

    Nous Research has launched Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, letting users create multiple named AI bots with individual chat histories, memory, skills and pinned models. Bots can message each other and hand off work via @mention. The feature is now bundled in Hermes Agent v0.20.3 and r…

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