Hermes Agent Ships Tool Search for MCP: Anthropic Evals Show 49% to 74% Accuracy Gain on Opus 4
49% to 74%. That's the accuracy lift Nous Research just shipped with Hermes Agent's Tool Search for MCP—solving the context bloat problem that's been slowing agent deployments.

Why it matters
Nous Research's Hermes Agent launches a production feature (Tool Search via BM25) that directly improves how AI agents discover and use tools in MCP environments. The 49-74% accuracy gain on Opus 4 suggests real architectural progress on a known friction point in agentic workflows.
The key facts
5 to knowNous Research product: Hermes Agent
Feature: Tool Search for MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Implementation: BM25 progressive schema disclosure
Accuracy improvement: 49% to 74% on Claude Opus 4
Problem solved: MCP context bloat in tool selection
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Publisher excerpt: Nous Research's Hermes Agent adds Tool Search to fix MCP context bloat using BM25 progressive schema disclosure.