Hermes Agent 0.13.0 adds durable Kanban

This is a meaningful step up from “chatbot with tools” to “persistent agent infrastructure.” The headline feature is not just more automation, but better reliability around task completion, recovery, and cross-session continuity.

• –Durable Kanban adds heartbeats, reclaim, zombie detection, retries, and hallucination recovery, which directly addresses the failure mode that kills most agent demos: drifting or stalling mid-task
• –`/goal` and Checkpoints v2 make Hermes behave more like an always-on worker with state, not a disposable prompt session
• –Security changes matter: default redaction, stricter allowlists, and TOCTOU fixes suggest the project is maturing beyond hobbyist-agent territory
• –Provider plugins and broader platform support make Hermes less tied to a single model or surface, which is important if the team wants adoption beyond Nous fans
• –The release is still ambitious, but the differentiator is now orchestration quality, not raw model capability