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Hermes Agent v0.12.0: autonomous skill Curator, LM Studio as first-class provider

A background Curator agent grades, consolidates and prunes your skill library on its own 7-day cycle, and the self-improvement review fork is reworked to be rubric-based and to inherit the parent's live runtime. Four new inference providers land plus LM Studio promoted to a full native provider, and ComfyUI and TouchDesigner-MCP move from optional to bundled by default.

PUBLISHED2026-04-30
OBSERVED2026-08-11
AGE3mo
SOURCES1
  • hermes curator runs on the gateway cron ticker (7-day default): grades skills, consolidates related ones, prunes dead ones, writes logs/curator/run.json + REPORT.md; archived skills classified consolidated-vs-pruned; gates protect bundled/hub skills from mutation; configured under auxiliary.curator; hermes curator status ranks skills by usage
  • Self-improvement review fork: class-first/rubric-based instead of free-form, biased toward the skill just loaded, handles references/ and templates/ sub-files, inherits parent provider/model/credentials, restricted to memory + skills toolsets, prior-turn tool messages excluded from its summary
  • ComfyUI v5 (official CLI + REST, hardware-gated local install) now built in by default; TouchDesigner-MCP bundled by default with GLSL, post-FX, audio, geometry and 9 reference docs
  • Humanizer skill (strips AI-isms), claude-design HTML artifact skill, design-md, airtable salvage, skill_manage edits in external_dirs, direct-URL skill install, /reload-skills
  • LM Studio upgraded from custom-endpoint alias to native provider: dedicated auth, hermes doctor checks, reasoning transport, live /models listing
  • New inference providers: GMI Cloud, Azure AI Foundry (with auto-detection), MiniMax OAuth via PKCE browser flow, Tencent Tokenhub
  • Gateway becomes a plugin host for messaging adapters; Microsoft Teams is the first plugin-shipped platform (19th)
  • Tencent Yuanbao as 18th messaging platform with text + media delivery
  • Spotify: 7 native tools (play, search, queue, playlists, devices) behind PKCE OAuth, setup wizard, bundled skill, cron usage documented
  • Visible TUI cold start cut ~57%
  • 1,096 commits, 550 merged PRs, 1,270 files changed
  • Note: source text truncated mid-sentence in the Spotify item
featurecapabilitymodel-support

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