Hermes Agent releases v0.15.0, significantly reducing code and upgrading multi-agent platform According to Beating monitoring, the NousResearch team has officially released the open-source intelligent agent project Hermes Agent v0.15.0 version. The amount of code for running the core run_agent.exe has been significantly reduced by 76% from the original 16083 lines to 3821 lines, and fully refactored into 14 high cohesion modules, eliminating editor loading lag. In terms of cold start and search performance, the development team introduced OpenAI dependency packages and optimized high-frequency function calls by delaying, compressing the cold start time of the Termux terminal to 0.8 seconds and increasing the Hermes version speed by 63% to 258 milliseconds. The restructured session search tool session-search abandons large model calls and uses configuration free local filtering, reducing search time to 20 milliseconds and achieving 4500 times faster and completely zero cost operation. The Kanban tool has been upgraded to a complete multi-agent collaboration platform. Developers only need to input Hermes Kanban Swarm to initialize the Swarm workflow, which includes coordinators, parallel workers, independent verification and synthesis nodes, with one click. It also adds support for single task model coverage and scheduled start. In terms of security defense, the new version introduces active threat defense against Brainworm attacks, implementing traffic filtering and boundary marking at three key checkpoints: tool output, recall memory, and external skill loading, to prevent intelligent agents from being taken control by malicious files or network services. The integration of ecosystems and third parties has also undergone a deep upgrade. The system supports unified hosting of all cloud API keys based on Bitwarden, and has launched a toolkit that can load multiple skills with a single command. It has also added an interactive installation panel for the Nous official MCP service directory. The xAI ecosystem integration has added the xAI Web Search network search plugin, which has integrated Grok exclusive execution guidance into the Hermes proxy proxy. Additionally, the Hermes Doctor diagnostic process can automatically alert existing models and support one click hot migration. In order to fix the obstacle level fault during the initial release of the version, the official urgently released the v0.15.1 patch version within a few hours, completely eliminating the 401 infinite overload loop faced by the panel in loopback mode. At the same time, it fixed defects such as the failure of parsing raw command paths such as npx in Docker containers and the inability of Kanban worker threads to be terminated normally under SIGTERM signals. [Original link]