Nous Research releases Hermes Agent v0.17.0 'The Reach Release' with iMessage, WhatsApp, and async subagent support
Hermes Agent's v0.17.0 release expands from a desktop tool into a multi-channel agent platform (iMessage, WhatsApp, Raft network) with background subagents, representing a meaningful surface-area expansion for an open-source framework that has grown to 180k GitHub stars in four months.
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