Hermes Agent v0.14.0 (v2026.5.16)

Release Date: May 16, 2026
Since v0.13.0: 808 commits · 633 merged PRs · 1393 files changed · 165,061 insertions · 545 issues closed (12 P0, 50 P1) · 215 community contributors (including co-authors)

The Foundation Release — Hermes Agent installs and runs anywhere now. Native Windows ships in early beta with a full PowerShell installer story, a pip install hermes-agent wheel lands on PyPI, lazy-deps reshape what pip install hermes-agent actually pulls down, the supply-chain checker scans every install/upgrade for unsafe versions, and a new OpenAI-compatible local proxy lets Codex / Aider / Cline talk to OAuth-only providers (Claude Pro, ChatGPT Pro, SuperGrok). The cold-start wave shaves ~19 seconds off hermes launch, browser-tool CDP calls run 180x faster, and hermes tools All-Platforms drops from 14s to under 1.5s. Two new messaging platforms (LINE and SimpleX Chat) and a Microsoft Graph foundation (Teams pipeline + webhook adapter) land alongside /handoff that finally transfers sessions live, vision_analyze passing pixels through to vision-capable models, x_search as a first-class tool, LSP semantic diagnostics on every write_file / patch, a unified pluggable video_generate, a computer_use cua-driver backend, cross-session 1-hour Claude prompt caching, a per-turn file-mutation verifier, plus 9 new optional skills. 50+ P1 closures, 12 P0 closures.

✨ Highlights

• Native Windows support (early beta) — full PowerShell installer, native subprocess/PTY paths, taskkill-based process management, MinGit auto-install, Microsoft Store python stub detection, foreground Ctrl+C preservation, taskkill+ps2 fallback, npm prefix handling, and ~40 follow-up Windows-only fixes across CLI / gateway / TUI / curator / tools. Hermes finally runs natively on cmd.exe and PowerShell, no WSL required. (#21561, #22130, #22752, #26618, and many more)

• pip install hermes-agent && hermes — Hermes Agent is now a real PyPI package. One command, no clone, no git, no shell installer. Wheel includes the Ink TUI bundle and shell launcher. (salvage of #26350) (#26593)

• Cold-start performance wave — ~19s off hermes launch — skills cache, lazy Feishu import, no Nous HTTP at startup, plus PEP-562 lazy adapter imports (QQ, Yuanbao, Teams, Google Chat), deferred fal_client / google-cloud / httpx loads, models.dev disk-cache-first lookup, parallel doctor API checks, eager-skip plugin discovery on built-in subcommands, hermes tools All-Platforms drops from 14s to <1.5s, welcome banner skipped on chat -q. (#22138, #22120, #22681, #22790, #22808, #22831, #22859, #22904, #22766, #25341)

• 180x faster browser_console evaluations — routed through the supervisor's persistent CDP WebSocket instead of spawning a fresh DevTools session per call. Real-world page interactions feel instant. (#23226)

• Supply-chain advisory checker + lazy-deps framework + tiered install fallback — every pip install / hermes update scans dependencies against an advisory list, lazy-deps replace heavy import-time loads with first-use installs, and the installer falls back through extras tiers when a wheel rejects on the target platform. (#24220)

• OpenAI-compatible local proxy — hermes proxy exposes any OAuth-authed provider (Claude Pro, ChatGPT Pro, SuperGrok) as an OpenAI-compatible endpoint that Codex / Aider / Cline / VS Code Continue can hit. Your subscription, your tools. (#25969)

• Cross-session 1-hour Claude prompt cache — Anthropic / OpenRouter / Nous Portal now share a 1h prefix cache across sessions for Claude models. Fast resume, fast /new, lower cost on repeat work. (#23828)

• Two new messaging platforms — LINE + SimpleX Chat — LINE Messaging API lands as a first-class platform, SimpleX Chat salvages #2558 onto the modern adapter spec. Hermes is now on 22 platforms. (#23197, #26232)

• Microsoft Graph foundation — Teams pipeline + webhook adapter — msgraph auth/client foundation, webhook listener platform, Teams pipeline plugin runtime, and Teams outbound delivery via the existing adapter — Hermes can now read and post to Teams. (salvages of #21408–#21411) (#21922, #21969, #22007, #22024)

• /handoff actually transfers the session live — the agent's active session moves to a different model / persona / profile mid-conversation, with messages, tool history, and context preserved. (#23395)

• x_search — first-class X (Twitter) search tool — gated tool with OAuth-or-API-key auth, no skill needed to query the timeline. (#26763)

• vision_analyze returns pixels to vision-capable models — when the active model can see, vision_analyze now hands the image straight through instead of falling back to a text description. (#22955)

• LSP semantic diagnostics on every write — write_file and patch now run real language-server diagnostics on the post-edit file (delta-only) and surface real errors before they ship downstream. (#24168, #25978)

• Per-turn file-mutation verifier footer — after every turn that wrote files, the agent gets a verifier footer summarizing what actually changed on disk — catches silent overwrites and "wrote it but it didn't land" bugs. (#24498)

• Unified video_generate with pluggable provider backends — single tool, any backend. Drop in a new video provider as a plugin, no core changes. (#25126)

• computer_use cua-driver backend — proper focus-safe ops, non-Anthropic provider support, refresh on hermes update. Computer-use is no longer locked to a single SDK. (re-salvage of #16936) (#21967, #24063)

• xAI Grok OAuth provider — SuperGrok via subscription — sign in with your xAI account, talk to Grok models from Hermes. (#26534)

• Clarify with buttons — native inline keyboards on Telegram + Discord — the clarify tool renders multi-choice prompts as platform-native buttons instead of typed responses. (#24199, #25485)

• Discord channel history backfill (default on) — Hermes reads recent channel history when joining a thread so it actually knows what's been said. (#25984)

• Watchers skill — RSS / HTTP JSON / GitHub polling via cron no_agent mode — skill recipes that wire change-detection sources directly into cron's script-only watchdog mode. (#21881)

• Zed ACP Registry integration + uvx distribution — Hermes is in the Zed registry, installable via uvx (no npm). Plus hermes acp --setup-browser bootstraps browser tools for registry installs. (salvage of #25908) (#26079, #26120, #26234)

• OpenRouter Pareto Code router — wire a new OpenRouter router with min_coding_score knob. Pick the cheapest model that meets your quality bar. (#22838)

• Optional codex app-server runtime for OpenAI/Codex models — drives the OpenAI Codex CLI under the hood for OpenAI/Codex paths, with session reuse, wedge retirement, and OAuth refresh classification. (#24182, #25769)

• hermes-skills/huggingface as a trusted default tap — community skills index from huggingface.co/skills is available by default in the Skills Hub. (#26219)

• 9 new optional skills — Hyperliquid (perp/spot trading via SDK + REST) (@kshitijk4poor & Hermes), Yahoo Finance market data, api-testing (REST/GraphQL debug), unified EVM multi-chain skill (folds #25291 + #2010 + base/), darwinian-evolver, osint-investigation (closes #355), pinggy-tunnel, watchers (RSS/HTTP/GitHub via cron), Notion overhaul for the Developer Platform (May 2026). (#23582, #23583, #23590, #25299, #26760, #26729, #26765, #21881, #26612)

• API server exposes run approval events — long-running runs surface approval requests over the API stream, no more silent stalls. (salvage of #20311) (#21899)

• /subgoal — user-added criteria appended to active /goal — layer extra success criteria onto a running goal loop. The judge sees them in the prompt, no behavior change when subgoals are empty. (#25449)

• Plugins can run any LLM call via ctx.llm — plugins get a first-class hook to make their own LLM requests through the active provider/credentials, no manual wiring. Plus tool_override flag for replacing built-in tools. (#23194, #26759)

• Brave Search (free tier) + DuckDuckGo (DDGS) as web-search providers — two new free search backends alongside Tavily / SearXNG / Exa. (#21337)

• Sudo brute-force block + sudo-stdin/askpass DANGEROUS classification — closes the sudo -S brute-force avenue; approval gates classify stdin-fed and askpass-stripped sudo invocations as dangerous. (salvages of #22194 + #21128) (#23736)

• Provider rename — Alibaba Cloud → Qwen Cloud, picker reorder — matches what the world calls it. Existing config keys still work. (#24835)

🪟 Windows — Native Support (Early Beta)

Bootstrap & installer

• Native Windows support (early beta) — first-class native Windows path across CLI / gateway / TUI / tools (#21561)
• PyPI wheel packaging — pip install hermes-agent && hermes (salvage of #26350) (#26593)
• Recognise Shift+Enter as a newline key + Windows docs (salvage #21545) (#22130)
• Preserve Ctrl+C for Windows foreground runs (@helix4u) (#22752)
• Stop spamming cwd-missing + tirith-spawn warnings on every terminal call (#26618)
• Use --extra all not --all-extras; drop lazy-covered extras from [all] (#24515)

Windows-specific fixes (40+ across cli / tools / gateway / curator / TUI)

A long tail of native-Windows fixes shipped alongside the beta — taskkill-based subprocess management, MinGit auto-install, Microsoft Store python stub detection, npm prefix handling, native PTY paths, signal handling differences, foreground process management, ANSI sequence handling, path normalization, file-locking semantics, and many more. Full list in commit log under fix(windows) / feat(windows) / windows.

🚀 Performance Wave

Cold start

• Cut ~19s from hermes cold start — skills cache + lazy Feishu + no Nous HTTP at startup (#22138)
• Skip eager plugin discovery on known built-in subcommands (#22120)
• Cache Nous auth + .env loads — hermes tools All Platforms from 14s to <1.5s (#25341)
• Skip welcome banner on chat -q single-query mode (#22904)
• Defer heavy google-cloud imports in google_chat to first adapter use (#22681)
• Defer QQAdapter and YuanbaoAdapter imports via PEP 562 (#22790)
• Defer httpx import in teams to first webhook call (#22831)
• Defer fal_client import to first generation request (#22859)
• models.dev cache-first lookup, skip network when disk cache is fresh (#22808)
• Parallelize API connectivity checks in hermes doctor and disable IMDS (#22766)

Runtime

• 180x faster browser_console evaluations — route through supervisor's persistent CDP WebSocket (#23226)
• Tune Telegram cadence + adaptive fast-path for short replies (salvage of #10388) (#23587)
• Accumulate length-continuation prefix via list+join (#26237)

Prompt caching

• Cross-session 1h prefix cache for Claude on Anthropic / OpenRouter / Nous Portal (#23828)
• Hit prefix cache in background review fork (salvage #17276 + #25427) (#25434)

📦 Installation & Distribution

PyPI + supply-chain

• PyPI wheel packaging — pip install hermes-agent && hermes (salvage of #26350) (#26593)
• Supply-chain advisory checker + lazy-install framework + tiered install fallback (#24220)
• Use --extra all not --all-extras; drop lazy-covered extras from [all] (#24515)
• Skip browser download when system chromium exists (@helix4u) (#25317)

Nix

• extraDependencyGroups for sealed venv extras (@alt-glitch) (#21817)
• Refresh npm lockfile hashes — keeps Nix flake builds reproducible

Docker

• Bootstrap auth.json from env on first boot (#21880)
• Drop manual @hermes/ink build, rely on esbuild bundle — slimmer image

ACP / Zed

• Zed ACP Registry integration (salvage of #25908) (#26079)
• Switch to uvx distribution, drop npm launcher (#26120)
• hermes acp --setup-browser bootstraps browser tools for registry installs (#26234)

🏗️ Core Agent & Architecture

Sessions & handoff

• /handoff actually transfers the session live (#23395)
• Expose HERMES_SESSION_ID env var to agent tools (@alt-glitch) (#23847)

Goals (Ralph loop)

• /subgoal — user-added criteria appended to active /goal (#25449)
• /goal checklist + /subgoal user controls (#23456) — rolled back in window (#23813); /subgoal returned in simpler form via #25449

Compression

• Make protect_first_n configurable (#25447)

Verification

• Per-turn file-mutation verifier footer (#24498)

Stream retry

• Log inner cause, upstream headers, bytes/elapsed on every drop (#23005)

🤖 Models & Providers

New providers

• xAI Grok OAuth (SuperGrok Subscription) provider (#26534)
• NovitaAI provider (salvage #7219) (@kshitijk4poor) (#25507)
• NVIDIA NIM billing origin header (salvage #25211) (#26585)

Provider work

• OpenRouter Pareto Code router with min_coding_score knob (#22838)
• Optional codex app-server runtime for OpenAI/Codex models (#24182)
• Codex-runtime: retire wedged sessions + post-tool watchdog + OAuth refresh classify (#25769)
• Codex-runtime: skip unavailable plugins during migration (#25437)
• Codex-runtime: de-dup [plugins.X] tables and stop leaking HERMES_HOME into config.toml (#26250) (@kshitijk4poor) (#26260)
• Pass reasoning.effort to xAI Responses API (#22807)
• Custom provider: prompt and persist explicit api_mode (#25068)
• Rename Alibaba Cloud → Qwen Cloud, reorder picker (#24835)
• Restore gpt-5.3-codex-spark for ChatGPT Pro (salvage #18286 + #19530, fixes #16172) (@kshitijk4poor) (#22991)
• Inject tool-use enforcement for GLM models (#24715)
• Use Nous Portal as model metadata authority (@rob-maron) (#24502)
• Unified client=hermes-client-v<version> tag on every Portal request (#24779)
• Prevent stale Ollama credentials after provider switch (@kshitijk4poor) (#21703)
• Auxiliary client: rotate pooled auth after quota failures (salvage #22779) (#22792)
• Auxiliary client: skip providers without credentials immediately (#25395) (#25487)
• Auth: send Nous refresh token via header (@shannonsands) (#21578)
• MiniMax: harden OAuth dashboard and runtime (#24165)

OpenAI-compatible proxy

• Local OpenAI-compatible proxy for OAuth providers — Codex / Aider / Cline can hit Claude Pro, ChatGPT Pro, SuperGrok (#25969)

📱 Messaging Platforms (Gateway)

New platforms

• LINE Messaging API platform plugin (#23197)
• SimpleX Chat platform plugin (salvages #2558) (#26232)

Microsoft Graph foundation

• msgraph: add auth and client foundation (salvage of #21408) (#21922)
• msgraph: add webhook listener platform (salvage of #21409) (#21969)
• teams-pipeline: add plugin runtime and operator cli (salvage of #21410) (#22007)
• teams: add pipeline outbound delivery via existing adapter (salvage of #21411) (#22024)

Cross-platform

• Per-platform admin/user split for slash commands (salvage of #4443) (#23373)
• Forensics on signal handling — non-blocking diag, per-phase timing, stale-unit warning (#23285)
• Keep gateway running when platforms fail; add per-platform circuit breaker + /platform (#26600)
• Wire clarify tool with inline keyboard buttons on Telegram (#24199)
• Add chat_id to hook_ctx for message source tracking (#24710)

Telegram

• Native draft streaming via sendMessageDraft (Bot API 9.5+) (salvage of #3412) (#23512)
• Stream Telegram edits safely — salvage of #22264 (@kshitijk4poor) (#22518)
• Telegram notification mode (salvage #22772) (#22793)
• Telegram guest mention mode (@kshitijk4poor) (#22759)
• Split-and-deliver oversized edits instead of silent truncation (salvage of #19537) (#23576)
• Preserve DM topic routing via reply fallback (salvage #22053) (@kshitijk4poor) (#22410)
• Pass source.thread_id explicitly on auto-reset notice (carve-out of #7404) (#23440)

Discord

• Render clarify choices as buttons (#25485)
• Channel history backfill — default on, broadened scope (#25984)
• thread_require_mention for multi-bot threads (salvage #25313) (#25445)

Slack

• Support !cmd as alternate prefix for slash commands in threads (#25355)

WhatsApp

• Surface quoted reply metadata from Baileys (#25398) (#25489)

Feishu / Google Chat / others

• Feishu: native update prompt cards (@kshitijk4poor) (#22448)
• Google Chat: repair setup prompt imports (@helix4u) (#22038)
• Google Chat: honor relay-declared sender_type (salvage of #22107) (@kshitijk4poor) (#22432)
• LINE: use build_source instead of nonexistent create_source (#24717)
• Add weixin, and more to gateway docs (salvage of #21063 by @wuwuzhijing)

🖥️ CLI & TUI

CLI

• Show YOLO mode warning in banner and status bar (#26238)
• Confirm prompt for destructive slash commands (#4069) (#22687)
• docker_extra_args + display.timestamps (#23599)
• Delegate tool: show user's actual concurrency / spawn-depth limits in description (#22694)

TUI

• /sessions slash command for browsing and resuming previous sessions (@austinpickett) (#20805)
• Segment turns with rule above non-first user msgs; trim ticker dead space (@OutThisLife) (#21846)
• Support attaching to an existing gateway (@OutThisLife) (#21978)
• Resolve markdown links to readable page titles (@OutThisLife) (#24013)
• Width-aware markdown table rendering with vertical fallback (@alt-glitch) (#26195)
• Keep Ink displayCursor in sync with fast-echo writes so cursor stops drifting (@OutThisLife) (#26717)
• Allow transcript scroll + Esc during approval/clarify/confirm prompts (@OutThisLife) (#26414)
• Preserve session when switching personality (@austinpickett) (#20942)
• Skip native safety net on OSC52-capable terminals (@benbarclay) (#20954)

Dashboard / GUI

• Route embedded TUI through dashboard gateway (@OutThisLife) (#21979)
• Hide token/cost analytics behind config flag (default off) (#25438)
• Fix Langfuse observability — trace I/O, tool outputs, placeholder credentials (closes #22342, #22763) (@kshitijk4poor) (#26320)
• MiniMax 'Login' button launched Claude OAuth (salvage #22849) (#24058)
• Update cron modals (@austinpickett) (#25985)
• Analytics: prevent silent token loss and add Claude 4.5–4.7 pricing (@austinpickett) (#21455)

🔧 Tools & Capabilities

Vision & video

• vision_analyze returns pixels to vision-capable models (#22955)
• Unified video_generate with pluggable provider backends (#25126)
• image_gen: actionable setup message when no FAL backend is reachable (#26222)

Computer use

• computer_use cua-driver backend + focus-safe ops + non-Anthropic provider fix (re-salvage #16936) (#21967)
• Refresh cua-driver on hermes update + add install --upgrade (#24063)

LSP & write-time diagnostics

• Semantic diagnostics from real language servers in write_file/patch (#24168)
• Shift baseline diagnostics into post-edit coordinates (#25978)

Search & web

• Brave Search (free tier) and DDGS search providers (#21337)
• Bearer auth header for Tavily /crawl endpoint (#24658)

X (Twitter)

• Gated x_search tool with OAuth-or-API-key auth (#26763)

Browser

• Route browser_console eval through supervisor's persistent CDP WS (180x faster) (#23226)
• Support externally managed Camofox sessions (#24499)

MCP

• supports_parallel_tool_calls for MCP servers (salvage of #9944) (#26825)
• Codex preset for Codex CLI MCP server (salvage #22663) (#22679)
• Stop retrying initial MCP auth failures (#25624) (#25776)

Google Workspace

• Drive write ops + Docs/Sheets create/append (#21895)

Per-turn verifier

• Per-turn file-mutation verifier footer (#24498)

🧩 Kanban (Multi-Agent)

• specify — auxiliary LLM fleshes out triage tasks (#21435)
• Orchestrator board tools — kanban_list + kanban_unblock (carve-out of #20568) (#23012)
• stranded_in_ready diagnostic for unclaimed tasks (#23578)
• Dashboard batch QOL upgrade (salvage of #23240) (#23550)
• Tooltips and docs link across dashboard (#21541)
• Dedupe notifier delivery via atomic claim + rewind on failure (salvage #22558) (#23401)
• Keep notifier subscriptions alive across retry cycles (salvage #21398) (#23423)
• Drop caller-controlled author override in kanban_comment (salvage of #22109) (@kshitijk4poor) (#22435)
• Sanitize comment author rendering in build_worker_context (#22769)

🧠 Plugins & Extension

Plugin surface

• Run any LLM call from inside a plugin via ctx.llm (#23194)
• tool_override flag for replacing built-in tools (closes #11049) (#26759)
• standalone_sender_fn for out-of-process cron delivery (@kshitijk4poor) (#22461)
• HERMES_PLUGINS_DEBUG=1 surfaces plugin discovery logs (#22684)
• Hindsight-client as optional dependency (@alt-glitch) (#21818)

Profile & distribution

• Shareable profile distributions via git (#20831)

⏰ Cron

• Routing intent — deliver=all fans out to every connected channel (#21495)
• Support name-based lookup for job operations (#26231)
• Blank Cron dashboard tab + partial-record crashes (salvage #21042 + #22330) (@kshitijk4poor) (#22389)
• Do not seed HERMES_SESSION_* contextvars from cron origin (salvage of #22356) (@kshitijk4poor) (#22382)
• Scan assembled prompt including skill content for prompt injection (#3968)

🧩 Skills Ecosystem

Skills Hub

• hermes-skills/huggingface as a trusted default tap (closes #2549) (#26219)
• Show per-skill pages in the left sidebar (#26646)
• Richer info panels on the Skills Hub (#22905)
• Refuse skill_view name collisions instead of guessing (closes #6136 @polkn)

Curator

• Show rename map in user-visible summary (#22910)
• Hint at hermes curator pin in the rename block (#23212)

New optional skills

• Hyperliquid — perp/spot trading via SDK + REST (salvage of #1952) (#23583)
• Yahoo Finance market data (#23590)
• api-testing (REST/GraphQL debug, salvages #1800) (#23582)
• Unified EVM multi-chain skill (salvages #25291 + #2010 + folds in base/) (#25299)
• darwinian-evolver (#26760)
• osint-investigation (closes #355) (#26729)
• pinggy-tunnel (#26765)
• watchers — RSS / HTTP JSON / GitHub polling via cron no-agent (#21881)
• Notion overhaul for the Developer Platform (May 2026) (#26612)

🔒 Security & Reliability

Security hardening

• Sudo brute-force block + sudo-stdin/askpass DANGEROUS (salvage of #22194 + #21128) (@kshitijk4poor) (#23736)
• Drop caller-controlled author override in kanban_comment (salvage of #22109) (@kshitijk4poor) (#22435)
• Cover remaining SSRF fetch paths in skills-hub (salvage #22804) (#22843)
• Use credential_pool for custom endpoint model listing probes (salvage #22810) (#22842)
• Require dashboard auth for plugin API routes (salvage #19541) (#23220)
• Sanitize env and redact output in quick commands + remove write-only _pending_messages (#23584)
• Reduce unnecessary shell=True in subprocess calls (#25149)
• Sanitize Google Chat sender_type from relay (salvage of #22107) (@kshitijk4poor) (#22432)
• Supply-chain advisory checker (#24220)
• Rewrite security policy around OS-level isolation as the boundary (@jquesnelle) (#20317)
• Remove public security advisory page (#24253)

Reliability — notable bug closures

• SQLite: fall back to journal_mode=DELETE on NFS/SMB/FUSE (fixes /resume on network mounts) (@kshitijk4poor) (#22043)
• Codex-runtime: retire wedged sessions + post-tool watchdog + OAuth refresh classify (#25769)
• Codex-runtime: de-dup [plugins.X] tables and stop leaking HERMES_HOME (#26250) (@kshitijk4poor) (#26260)
• Daytona: migrate legacy-sandbox lookup to cursor-based list() (#24587)
• MCP: stop retrying initial MCP auth failures (#25624) (#25776)
• Gateway: enable text-intercept for multi-choice clarify fallback (#25587) (#25778)
• Gateway: keep running when platforms fail; per-platform circuit breaker + /platform (#26600)
• Delegate: salvage #21933 JSON-string batch + diagnostic logging (@kshitijk4poor) (#22436)
• Profiles+banner: exclude infrastructure from --clone-all + fix stale update-check repo resolution (@kshitijk4poor) (#22475)
• ACP: inline file attachment resources (salvage #21400 + image support) (#21407)
• CI: unblock shared PR checks (@stephenschoettler) (#21012, #25957)

Notable reverts in window

• /goal checklist + /subgoal feature stack — rolled back (#23813); /subgoal returned in simpler form via #25449
• Scrollback box width clamp (#25975) rolled back to restore full-width borders (#26163)
• fix(cli): tolerate unreadable dirs when building systemd PATH rolled back

🌍 i18n

• Localize all gateway commands + web dashboard, add 8 new locales (16 total) (#22914)

📚 Documentation

• Repair Voice & TTS provider table (@nightcityblade, fixes #24101) (#24138)
• Show per-skill pages in the left sidebar (#26646)
• Mention Weixin in gateway help and docstrings (salvage of #21063 by @wuwuzhijing)
• Richer info panels on the Skills Hub (#22905)
• Many more doc updates across providers, platforms, skills, Windows install paths, and dashboard.

🧪 Testing & CI

• Unblock shared PR checks (@stephenschoettler) (#21012)
• Stabilize shared test state after 21012 (@stephenschoettler) (#25957)
• A long tail of test additions for platforms, providers, plugins, and edge cases — 8 explicit test: PRs plus ~250 fix PRs that also added regression coverage.

👥 Contributors

Core

• @teknium1 — release lead, architecture, ~406 PRs merged in window

Top community contributors

• @kshitijk4poor — 38 PRs · Telegram cadence/streaming/topic routing, security hardening (sudo, SSRF, kanban_comment, dashboard auth), codex-runtime hygiene, NovitaAI provider, profile/banner fixes, Feishu update cards, gateway QOL across the board
• @alt-glitch — 13 PRs · Markdown-table TUI rendering, HERMES_SESSION_ID env var, hindsight-client optional dep, Nix extraDependencyGroups
• @OutThisLife (Brooklyn Nicholson) — 12 PRs · TUI turn segmentation, attach-to-gateway, markdown link titles, embedded TUI via dashboard gateway, Ink cursor sync, scroll/Esc during prompts
• @austinpickett — 8 PRs · /sessions slash command, personality switching preserves session, cron modals, dashboard analytics
• @helix4u — 5 PRs · Google Chat setup, browser install skip on system chromium, Windows Ctrl+C preservation
• @rob-maron — 4 PRs · Nous Portal as model metadata authority, provider polish
• @stephenschoettler — 3 PRs · CI stabilization
• @ethernet8023 — 3 PRs · platform/gateway work

All contributors (alphabetical)

@02356abc, @0xbyt4, @0xharryriddle, @1000Delta, @1RB, @29206394, @A-kamal, @aashizpoudel, @Abd0r,
@adybag14-cyber, @AgentArcLab, @ahmedbadr3, @AhmetArif0, @alblez, @Alex-yang00, @ALIYILD, @AllynSheep,
@alt-glitch, @am423, @amathxbt, @amethystani, @ArecaNon, @Arkmusn, @askclaw-vesper, @AsoTora, @austinpickett,
@aydnOktay, @ayushere, @baocin, @Bartok9, @benbarclay, @BennetYrWang, @Bihruze, @binhnt92, @briandevans,
@brooklynnicholson, @btorresgil, @buntingszn, @CalmProton, @chrisworksai, @CoinTheHat, @dandacompany, @Dangooy,
@DanielLSM, @David-0x221Eight, @ddupont808, @dhruv-saxena, @diablozzc, @dlkakbs, @dmahan93, @dmnkhorvath,
@domtriola, @donrhmexe, @Dusk1e, @eloklam, @emozilla, @ephron-ren, @erenkarakus, @EthanGuo-coder,
@ethernet8023, @evgyur, @explainanalyze, @fahdad, @fr33d3m0n, @Freeman-Consulting, @freqyfreqy, @Frowtek,
@fu576, @github-actions[bot], @gnanirahulnutakki, @GodsBoy, @guglielmofonda, @Gutslabs, @hanzckernel,
@heathley, @hekaru-agent, @helix4u, @HenkDz, @HiddenPuppy, @hllqkb, @hrygo, @HuangYuChuh, @Hugo-SEQUIER, @HxT9,
@iacker, @InB4DevOps, @isaachuangGMICLOUD, @iuyup, @Jaaneek, @jackey8616, @jackjin1997, @Jaggia, @jak983464779,
@jelrod27, @jethac, @JithendraNara, @johnisag, @Julientalbot, @Jwd-gity, @kallidean, @keyuyuan, @kfa-ai,
@kidonng, @KiraKatana, @kjames2001, @konsisumer, @Korkyzer, @kshitijk4poor, @KvnGz, @lars-hagen, @leehack,
@leepoweii, @LeonSGP43, @li0near, @libo1106, @liquidchen, @littlewwwhite, @liuhao1024, @liyoungc, @luandiasrj,
@luoyuctl, @luyao618, @magic524, @mbac, @McClean, @memosr, @Mibayy, @ming1523, @mizgyo, @mrshu, @ms-alan,
@MustafaKara7, @nederev, @nicoechaniz, @nidhi-singh02, @nightcityblade, @nik1t7n, @Ninso112, @NivOO5,
@novax635, @nv-kasikritc, @oferlaor, @oswaldb22, @outdoorsea, @oxngon, @PaTTeeL, @pearjelly, @pefontana,
@perng, @PhilipAD, @phuongvm, @polkn, @Prasanna28Devadiga, @princepal9120, @pty819, @purzbeats, @Quarkex,
@quocanh261997, @qWaitCrypto, @Qwinty, @rahimsais, @raymaylee, @ReqX, @rewbs, @RhombusMaximus, @rob-maron,
@Ruzzgar, @ryptotalent, @Sanjays2402, @shannonsands, @shaun0927, @SiliconID, @silv-mt-holdings, @simpolism,
@smwbev, @soichiyo, @sprmn24, @steezkelly, @stephenschoettler, @Sylw3ster, @szymonclawd, @teyrebaz33,
@Tianyu199509, @Tranquil-Flow, @TreyDong, @TurgutKural, @tw2818, @tymrtn, @uzunkuyruk, @v1b3coder,
@vanthinh6886, @VinceZcrikl, @vKongv, @vominh1919, @voteblake, @VTRiot, @wali-reheman, @wesleysimplicio,
@wilsen0, @WorldWriter, @worlldz, @wuli666, @wuwuzhijing, @Wysie, @XiaoXiao0221, @xieNniu, @xxxigm, @yehuosi,
@ygd58, @yifengingit, @yuga-hashimoto, @zccyman, @ZeterMordio, @Zhekinmaksim, @zhengyn0001

Also: @Nagatha (Claude Opus 4.7).

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