# 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.

| | |
|---|---|
| **Tool** | Hermes Agent |
| **Version** | v2026.4.30 |
| **Kind** | release |
| **Published** | 2026-04-30 |
| **Observed** | 2026-08-11 |
| **Significance** | 3/5 |
| **Breaking** | no |
| **Categories** | feature, capability, model-support |

## What changed


- `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


## Sources

- [github_release](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.4.30) — retrieved 2026-08-11

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