Hermes Agent v0.18.0 (2026.7.1) — The Judgment Release
The Judgment Release. Over the last week and a half the team put nearly all of its effort into one goal: resolve every P0 and P1 issue and PR in the entire Hermes Agent repo — and as of this release, 100% of them are…
Hermes Agent v0.18.0 (v2026.7.1)
The Judgment Release. Over the last week and a half the team put nearly all of its effort into one goal: resolve every P0 and P1 issue and PR in the entire Hermes Agent repo — and as of this release, 100% of them are closed. Zero open P0s. Zero open P1s. That's ~700 highest-priority items cleared as part of ~1,950 total issues and PRs closed this window. We intend to keep P0/P1 at zero from here on.
On top of that clean-sweep, v0.18.0 is about how *well* Hermes thinks and how it *knows when its work is actually done*. Mixture-of-Agents became a first-class citizen — named ensembles of models you can pick like any other model, with every reference model's reasoning shown to you and the aggregator's answer streamed live. The agent learned to verify its own work against evidence instead of vibes, `/goal` gained completion contracts, and `/learn` + `/journey` turned self-improvement into something you can see and steer. Underneath, the gateway became genuinely deployable-at-scale (scale-to-zero, drain coordination), the desktop grew first-class coding projects and a playable memory graph, and subagents can now fan out in the background.
🎯 The P0/P1 Clean Sweep — 100% resolved
This is the release headline. For a week and a half the team hammered the priority backlog day and night, and every single P0 and P1 across the whole repo is now closed:
| Priority | Issues closed | PRs merged |
|---|---|---|
| P0 (critical) | 3 | 8 |
| P1 (high) | 493 | 188 |
| Total | 496 | 196 |
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Full release notes: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.7.1