Hermes Agent Desktop Launches Bot Mode for Multi-Agent Collaboration
Nous Research's Teknium announced on August 14 that Hermes Agent Desktop has launched a public beta for Bot Mode via a plugin. This feature upgrades the traditional single-session management to a multi-agent interactive ecosystem, enabling the creation of multiple independent agents that can communicate and collaborate. The official plan is to integrate the feature into the main application after gathering feedback.
Confirmed
- Bot Mode is currently available as a public beta plugin for Hermes Agent Desktop, with a demo video released by Teknium on August 14.
- The interface features a sidebar listing different bots (agent profiles), allowing users to chat directly with any one of them; each Agent has an independent chat box.
- Each agent can be configured with a unique name, avatar, job title/persona, memory, skills, and personality.
- It supports scheduled tasks, allowing Bots to execute automatically based on a plan.
- Different Bots can communicate and collaborate with each other.
- Officially positioned as an alternative to session mode, the goal is to make agents feel more like a team than just a collection of profiles (as per posts by Teknium).
Why it matters
- Hermes Agent is an open-source agent tool, and Bot Mode shifts it from a single-session assistant to a multi-agent ecosystem, aligning with industry trends in multi-agent collaboration.
- The combination of scheduled tasks and autonomous communication between Bots implies that agents can run continuously with less human intervention, marking a step towards automated agent swarms.
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