# Hermes Agent v0.16.0: native desktop app and browser admin panel

> Hermes ships an Electron desktop application for macOS, Linux and Windows with in-app self-update, and the web dashboard becomes a full administration surface for MCP, channels, credentials and auth. The desktop client can also drive a remote Hermes gateway over WebSocket with OAuth or username/password, so the GUI and the agent runtime no longer have to live on the same machine. The bundled skill set was trimmed, with several skills removed outright and others demoted to optional installs.

| | |
|---|---|
| **Tool** | Hermes Agent |
| **Version** | v2026.6.5 |
| **Kind** | release |
| **Published** | 2026-06-06 |
| **Observed** | 2026-08-11 |
| **Significance** | 4/5 |
| **Breaking** | no |
| **Categories** | feature, capability, security, deprecation |

## What changed


- New `apps/desktop/` Electron app: one-click install on macOS/Linux/Windows, in-app self-update, streaming chat window, searchable/archivable session list, drag-and-drop file upload, clipboard image paste, Cmd+K palette, status-bar model picker
- Desktop can connect to a remote Hermes gateway over secure WebSocket, authenticating with OAuth or username/password; per-profile remote hosts, concurrent multi-profile sessions, cross-profile `@session` links
- Web dashboard admin surface: Channels page for gateway messaging platforms (Telegram, Discord, Slack, …), MCP catalog enable/disable, credential management, webhook and hook creation, memory config, gateway controls, System page with check-before-update and one-click Debug Share
- Pluggable OIDC and username-password login for the dashboard
- "Quick Setup via Nous Portal" first-run path
- Full Simplified Chinese translation of the desktop UI on a typed i18n layer; selected via Appearance settings, persisted to `display.language`
- Default skills trimmed: `spotify` (superseded by the native Spotify plugin), `linear` (superseded by `hermes mcp install linear`), `kanban-codex-lane`, `debugging-hermes-tui-commands`, a stale `domain` orphan and empty category markers removed
- Moved from bundled to optional (still available via `hermes skills install`): Baoyu creative set, `dspy`, `subagent-driven-development`, `minecraft-modpack-server`, `pokemon-player`, `hermes-s6-container-supervision`
- New `environments:` relevance gate keeps context-specific skills out of the skills index
- NVIDIA/skills added to the trusted Skills Hub taps
- Fuzzy-searchable model picker across desktop, web, TUI and CLI
- `/undo` reverts the last N turns
- Security round: CVE-2026-48710 Starlette pin, SSRF off-loop hardening, subprocess credential stripping
- Release scale: 874 commits, 542 PRs since v0.15.2; 399 issues closed (2 P0, 62 P1, 16 security-tagged)


## Sources

- [github_release](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.6.5) — retrieved 2026-08-11

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