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

Nous Research's Hermes just went from single-agent to multi-bot — each with its own memory, skills, and pinned model. Bot Mode is now default in Desktop.

Reporting by MarkTechPost 1 min brief
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Open-source agent infrastructure is maturing toward multi-agent workflows. A named-bot roster with persistent memory and skill isolation is a usability pattern that practioners deploying agents will recognize and adopt.

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  1. Nous Research ships Bot Mode for Hermes Agent

  2. Replaces single-agent session list with named-bot roster

  3. Each bot: own chat, memory, skills, pinned model

  4. MIT-licensed open source

  5. Bundled and default-on in Hermes Desktop

  6. Bot profiles are persistent Hermes instances

  7. Nous Research ships Bot Mode for Hermes Agent (MIT-licensed open source)

  8. Replaces single-agent session list with named bot roster

  9. Each bot is a real Hermes profile with own chat, memory, skills, pinned model

  10. Feature published August 17, 2026

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Publisher excerpt: 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 default-on in Hermes…
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