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The Curator release. Full changelog at RELEASE_v0.12.0.md.

Stats since v0.11.0: 1,096 commits · 550 merged PRs · 1,270 files changed · 217,776 insertions · 213 community contributors.

Primary themes:

  • Autonomous Curator — background agent grades, prunes, consolidates skills (issue [Feature]: Skill lifecycle management — usage metadata, staleness, archival, and revalidation #7816)
  • Self-improvement loop upgraded — class-first rubric, active-update bias, live runtime inheritance
  • Skill integrations — ComfyUI + TouchDesigner-MCP bundled by default, Humanizer / claude-design / design-md / airtable added, skill_manage pinned-skill guard, direct-URL skill install, /reload-skills
  • LM Studio first-class provider + 4 new providers (GMI Cloud, Azure AI Foundry, MiniMax OAuth, Tencent Tokenhub)
  • Pluggable gateway platforms + Microsoft Teams (19th) + Yuanbao (18th)
  • Native integrations — Spotify tools + skill + wizard; Google Meet plugin
  • hermes -z one-shot mode + hermes update --check + opt-in backup
  • Models dashboard tab + remote model catalog manifest
  • Native multimodal image routing + gateway media parity (multi-image + FLAC)
  • TUI — LaTeX rendering, /reload, pluggable busy styles, auto-resume, session delete, /mouse, ~57% cold-start cut
  • Observability — Langfuse + hermes-achievements bundled plugins
  • TTS provider registry + Piper; Vercel Sandbox backend
  • Secret redaction off by default (fixes patch corruption)

Test plan

  • Contributor audit: 0 unknown emails, 0 missing non-bot contributors
  • Release file lints: 16 sections, 503 lines, CalVer and SemVer consistent across hermes_cli/__init__.py and pyproject.toml

Full changelog: v2026.4.23...v2026.4.30

The Curator release — Hermes Agent now maintains itself. Autonomous
background Curator grades, prunes, and consolidates the skill library;
self-improvement loop substantially upgraded; four new inference
providers; Microsoft Teams (via pluggable platforms) + Yuanbao as 18th
and 19th messaging platforms; Spotify + Google Meet native integrations;
ComfyUI + TouchDesigner-MCP bundled by default; Humanizer skill ported;
~57% cut to visible TUI cold start.

Stats since v0.11.0: 1,096 commits, 550 merged PRs, 1,270 files
changed, 217,776 insertions, 213 community contributors.
@teknium1 teknium1 merged commit 73bf3ab into main Apr 30, 2026
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@teknium1 teknium1 deleted the hermes/hermes-f1a02bac branch April 30, 2026 18:31
@alt-glitch alt-glitch added type/docs Documentation improvements P3 Low — cosmetic, nice to have comp/cli CLI entry point, hermes_cli/, setup wizard labels Apr 30, 2026
nickdlkk pushed a commit to nickdlkk/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request May 11, 2026
The Curator release — Hermes Agent now maintains itself. Autonomous
background Curator grades, prunes, and consolidates the skill library;
self-improvement loop substantially upgraded; four new inference
providers; Microsoft Teams (via pluggable platforms) + Yuanbao as 18th
and 19th messaging platforms; Spotify + Google Meet native integrations;
ComfyUI + TouchDesigner-MCP bundled by default; Humanizer skill ported;
~57% cut to visible TUI cold start.

Stats since v0.11.0: 1,096 commits, 550 merged PRs, 1,270 files
changed, 217,776 insertions, 213 community contributors.
02356abc pushed a commit to 02356abc/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request May 14, 2026
The Curator release — Hermes Agent now maintains itself. Autonomous
background Curator grades, prunes, and consolidates the skill library;
self-improvement loop substantially upgraded; four new inference
providers; Microsoft Teams (via pluggable platforms) + Yuanbao as 18th
and 19th messaging platforms; Spotify + Google Meet native integrations;
ComfyUI + TouchDesigner-MCP bundled by default; Humanizer skill ported;
~57% cut to visible TUI cold start.

Stats since v0.11.0: 1,096 commits, 550 merged PRs, 1,270 files
changed, 217,776 insertions, 213 community contributors.
jsboige pushed a commit to jsboige/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request May 14, 2026
The Curator release — Hermes Agent now maintains itself. Autonomous
background Curator grades, prunes, and consolidates the skill library;
self-improvement loop substantially upgraded; four new inference
providers; Microsoft Teams (via pluggable platforms) + Yuanbao as 18th
and 19th messaging platforms; Spotify + Google Meet native integrations;
ComfyUI + TouchDesigner-MCP bundled by default; Humanizer skill ported;
~57% cut to visible TUI cold start.

Stats since v0.11.0: 1,096 commits, 550 merged PRs, 1,270 files
changed, 217,776 insertions, 213 community contributors.
dannyJ848 pushed a commit to dannyJ848/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request May 17, 2026
The Curator release — Hermes Agent now maintains itself. Autonomous
background Curator grades, prunes, and consolidates the skill library;
self-improvement loop substantially upgraded; four new inference
providers; Microsoft Teams (via pluggable platforms) + Yuanbao as 18th
and 19th messaging platforms; Spotify + Google Meet native integrations;
ComfyUI + TouchDesigner-MCP bundled by default; Humanizer skill ported;
~57% cut to visible TUI cold start.

Stats since v0.11.0: 1,096 commits, 550 merged PRs, 1,270 files
changed, 217,776 insertions, 213 community contributors.
gweeteve pushed a commit to gweeteve/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jun 2, 2026
The Curator release — Hermes Agent now maintains itself. Autonomous
background Curator grades, prunes, and consolidates the skill library;
self-improvement loop substantially upgraded; four new inference
providers; Microsoft Teams (via pluggable platforms) + Yuanbao as 18th
and 19th messaging platforms; Spotify + Google Meet native integrations;
ComfyUI + TouchDesigner-MCP bundled by default; Humanizer skill ported;
~57% cut to visible TUI cold start.

Stats since v0.11.0: 1,096 commits, 550 merged PRs, 1,270 files
changed, 217,776 insertions, 213 community contributors.
Egavasyug pushed a commit to Egavasyug/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jun 10, 2026
The Curator release — Hermes Agent now maintains itself. Autonomous
background Curator grades, prunes, and consolidates the skill library;
self-improvement loop substantially upgraded; four new inference
providers; Microsoft Teams (via pluggable platforms) + Yuanbao as 18th
and 19th messaging platforms; Spotify + Google Meet native integrations;
ComfyUI + TouchDesigner-MCP bundled by default; Humanizer skill ported;
~57% cut to visible TUI cold start.

Stats since v0.11.0: 1,096 commits, 550 merged PRs, 1,270 files
changed, 217,776 insertions, 213 community contributors.
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