Hermes Agent v0.12.0 adds Curator

This is a meaningful shift from “agent with tools” to “agent that maintains its own tool library.” The best releases in this category stop adding surface area for its own sake and start reducing operational drag for the person running the agent.

• –The Curator is the real headline: automated skill cleanup and consolidation is the kind of maintenance loop that makes long-running agents more believable in production.
• –Bundling ComfyUI and TouchDesigner-MCP by default lowers setup friction and signals Hermes is trying to own a broader agent runtime, not just a chat wrapper.
• –Microsoft Teams, Spotify, and Google Meet push Hermes deeper into real workflows, which matters more than another model toggle or UI tweak.
• –The cold-start reduction is practical: faster visible startup makes the TUI feel less like infrastructure and more like a product.
• –Four new inference providers keep the project model-agnostic, which is the right posture for an open-source agent that wants to survive provider churn.