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Clean, fast, and surprisingly polished for a tool this powerful. The skills ecosystem, toolsets, and desktop experience all fit together really well.

Download link https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/desktop

The team at Nous Research just dropped Hermes Desktop in public preview bringing their powerful open-source Hermes Agent into a polished native GUI app that runs locally on your machine.

Download link

https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/desktop

As shown in the demo, Hermes Agent can automatically join a Google Meet, perform real-time speech-to-text transcription, and save the conversation as Markdown files.

After the meeting ends, it pushes everything to a private GitHub repository and generates two files: a complete transcript and a summary with key discussion points, action items, decisions, and insights.

This turns every meeting into a searchable, version-controlled knowledge base without any manual note-taking.

Still a work in progress. It occasionally fails to join meetings or breaks during longer sessions, so for reliability I'd currently recommend the Google Meet MCP approach.

Been experimenting with a few options from the Hermes Guide coding plans page and was curious what everyone here is actually paying for these days.

For me:

• Nous Portal Plus — $20/month
• OpenCode Go — $10/month

The combo has been surprisingly good.

Nous Portal gives access to a huge catalog of models (300+ models, hosted tools, credits, etc.), while OpenCode Go has been great for coding workflows with models like Qwen, Kimi, GLM, DeepSeek, MiniMax, and MiMo without worrying too much about API costs.

I'm mainly using them with Hermes Agent, so having multiple model options and decent limits matters more to me than using a single provider.

What are you using?

• Nous Portal
• OpenCode Go
• Ollama Cloud
• Minimax
• Kimi
• Claude
• ChatGPT
• Something else?

Also curious about your reasoning:

• Best value?
• Best coding performance?
• Best model variety?
• Best for Hermes Agent?
• Lowest monthly cost?

Would love to hear what setup people have settled on after all the recent aggregator launches.

Liquid AI just released LFM2.5-8B-A1B, an 8B MoE model with only 1.5B active parameters, and the specs look pretty interesting:

128K context window

Trained on 38T tokens + RL

Focus on fast, reliable tool calling

Designed for phones, laptops, PCs, and robotics

Open-weight license

Claims performance comparable to models several times its size

Since Hermes Agent relies heavily on reasoning, tool use, and agent workflows, I'm curious if anyone has already tested this model with it.

A few questions:

How does it perform in real-world agent tasks?

Is the tool calling actually reliable?

How does it compare against Qwen, DeepSeek, or Granite models in Hermes Agent?

Any issues with long-context tasks or multi-step workflows?

Is it worth adding to a local agent setup?

Would love to hear benchmarks, experiences, or even anecdotal feedback from anyone who has tried it. The combination of 1.5B active parameters + agent-focused optimizations sounds promising on paper, but I'm wondering how it performs in practice.

For $1/month (+ processing fees), it includes:

$10 in credits

~15K requests

Access to the taste-1 model

~$40 worth of DeepSeek V4 Pro usage

~$20 worth of Qwen 3.7 Max usage

Up to 99% off MiMo V2.5

Basic analytics and Discord support

On paper, it seems almost too good to be true for the price, especially if you're experimenting with coding agents or AI workflows.

A few questions:

How does the actual usage compare to the advertised limits?

Are the models fast and reliable?

Any hidden restrictions or rate limits?

Would you recommend it over alternatives like OpenRouter or other low-cost AI platforms?

Would love to hear real-world experiences before giving it a try.

New performance tweaks landed in Hermes Agent and it's now outperforming OpenAI's Codex CLI in most multi-turn tasks despite running in Python vs their Rust codebase.

Currently sitting at:
• 12/60 unlocked
• GOLD tier
• Latest unlock: “LET HIM COOK”

My proudest flex is probably PROVIDER POLYGLOT because my workflows are basically held together by 5 different model providers and pure faith

Lowkey one of the coolest agent UIs I’ve seen. The hidden achievements system makes it feel like you’re discovering easter eggs while building workflows instead of just using another AI chat app.

Drop your achievements in the comments

Hey everyone,Big quality-of-life update from Teknium

and the Nous Research team: Skill Bundles are now in Hermes Agent!Instead of manually loading a bunch of skills every time you start a repetitive task, you can now predefine bundles (tiny YAML files) and trigger the whole set with a single slash command like /release-prep or /research-sprint.Examples from the announcement:/release-prep → plan rollout, review changes, write notes, prep FAQ, ship PR

/incident-response → triage fast, write update, prepare rollback

/research-sprint → collect sources, compare claims, write brief

https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/skills#skill-bundles

Drop below what you're building this week.

Could be anything:

- a half-broken prototype

- a stupid idea you can't stop thinking about

- an AI tool

- a side project

- something you shipped at 2am and instantly regretted

No judgment. Just genuinely curious what the vibe coding community is actually working on right now.

I’ve personally been building an AEO checker for AI search visibility: https://aeochecker.xyz/