Hermes Agent opens Marketplace with $20k plugin hackathon; Vellum makes assistant backups portable
heyneighbor · x · 2026-11-06
Indie/open-source agent updates:
- Vellum: v0.12.7 maintenance release (Nov 3); v0.12.8 (Nov 4) adds export of platform-hosted assistants from the backups card, cleaner imports with credentials stripped, and stream-import during teleport
- NousResearch Hermes Agent: v0.22.6 with "hermes migrate grok-bot" (Nov 2); v0.22.7 and mobile beta filled after NousCon (Nov 3); Hermes Marketplace plus a 7-day Plugin Hackathon with $20k prize (Nov 4); Hy4 80% off on Nous Portal for a week (Nov 5)
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