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Hermes Agent 0.20.4: glass UI, tabbed sidebar, Bot Mode fixes, NVIDIA SkillEvaluator

Patch release rolling up ~74 merged PRs since v0.20.3. Includes desktop glass/translucency UI (matte glass, frost picker, macOS pre-select), a tabbed SESSIONS|BOTS sidebar with per-bot hide/unhide, Bot Mode group-chat fixes (long-running member turns, Markdown rendering, cross-machine routing), NVIDIA SkillEvaluator Tier 1 advisory scanning on skill installs (license + security checks), cron media-send hardening (configurable timeout, manual-run attachments, missed-fire surfacing), SessionDB event-loop and contention fixes, hermes update parked-branch honesty, and kanban native OS notifications. Full curated release notes deferred to v0.21.0.

PUBLISHED2026-08-18
OBSERVED2026-08-21
AGE8d
SOURCES1
  • Glass/translucency UI: matte glass, frost picker, macOS pre-select support.
  • Tabbed sidebar: SESSIONS|BOTS tabs with per-bot hide/unhide.
  • Bot Mode fixes: long-running member turns, Markdown rendering, cross-machine routing.
  • NVIDIA SkillEvaluator: Tier 1 advisory scanning (license + security checks) on skill installs.
  • Cron media-send hardening: configurable timeout, manual-run attachments, missed-fire surfacing.
  • SessionDB: event-loop-thread and contention fixes.
  • hermes update: parked-branch honesty fix.
  • Kanban: native OS notifications.

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