# What's New in Hermes for Agent Workflows (2026)

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# What's new in Hermes for agent workflows

A running changelog of Hermes releases that actually matter when you run standing AI agents - new features, limits, and file/project handling. Dated, sourced, no rumor filler.

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### September 11, 2026: Hermes Agent v0.21.2: the state.db reliability campaign

Six PRs and 44 closed issues fixing root causes of state.db corruption: hosted rooms moved to shared-state.db, the dashboard opens read-only first, cron’s lifecycle guard uses the tracked connection registry.

**What this means for your agents:** If your agents run on cron all week, this is the release that stops the database from corrupting mid-run.

[Source →](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.9.11)

### September 7, 2026: Hermes Agent v0.21.1

A patch release in the 0.21 series, stabilizing the Pantheon feature set.

**What this means for your agents:** Routine hardening - update before adding new bots to a busy roster.

[Source →](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.9.7)

### August 31, 2026: Hermes Agent v0.21.0 \“Pantheon\”

Bot Mode ships default-on in the desktop app: named agents with faces in a shared roster, Discord-style group chats where bots and you talk in one room, hermes peer for bot-to-bot DMs, cron jobs with memory and continuity between runs, live mid-flight subagent steering, an MCP command center, and the agent can drive the desktop’s own browser.

**What this means for your agents:** This is the multi-agent release: your sourcing bot can hand findings to your outreach bot, and scheduled agents actually remember last week.

[Source →](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.8.31)

## More Hermes agent resources

[AI agent skills for Hermes](/for/hermes/) - the honest setup guide for running our 28 agents on Hermes. Start with the [Sourcing Agent on Hermes](/for/hermes/recruiters/sourcing-agent/) guide if you want a concrete example.

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