Hermes Agent 0.13.0 ships durable kanban

The interesting part here is not just the feature count; it’s the direction. Hermes is leaning hard into persistence, coordination, and recovery, which are the real failure modes for autonomous agents.

• –Durable Kanban, heartbeat, reclaim, and zombie detection make multi-agent workflows much less fragile
• –`/goal` and Checkpoints v2 improve continuity across turns, which is where most agents fall apart
• –Default redaction plus tighter auth and OAuth handling matter because always-on agents expand the attack surface
• –Google Chat, more providers, and locale support suggest the project is becoming a platform, not just a CLI toy
• –For AI builders, this is a strong open-source counterpoint to proprietary agent stacks with more control and self-hosting