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Hermes Agent Bot Mode: From Announcement to Open Testing

Nous Research's Teknium announced Bot Mode for the Hermes Agent desktop app on Aug 14, letting users configure multiple bots with distinct identities to collaborate; days later, multi-agent interaction opened for testing as an alternative to conversation mode.

2026-08-14 ~ 2026-08-17 · 2 episodes · 9 posts

Episode 1 · Hermes Agent Desktop Launches Bot Mode for Multi-Agent Collaboration (2026-08-14, 6 posts)

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.

Episode 2 · Hermes Agent Launches Bot Mode for Multi-Agent Interaction (2026-08-16, 3 posts)

NousResearch's Hermes Agent introduced Bot Mode as an alternative to conversation mode, letting users configure multiple bots with distinct identities, descriptions and avatars that can chat and take on tasks together. Available now via quote-tweet trials, it rolls into Hermes Desktop for all users on Monday.