Hermes Images Are No Longer Blurry: The Full Guide to Automatic Upscaling in image_generate and video_generate
Hermes' image_generate and video_generate now ship with built-in upscaling: sub-2MP FAL image models upscale by default, Krea chains Enhance, and video can opt into SeedVR2 at 2x resolution. Here's how the defaults work, how to use the upscale parameter, and what it costs.
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Monitor Competitors on Autopilot with Hermes: Product Launches, Pricing, Funding — Nothing Slips Through
Hermes now ships a built-in competitor-news-monitor skill that watches newsrooms, pricing pages, filings and status pages, deduplicates by underlying event, scores materiality, and delivers a cited digest on a schedule. Here is how it works and how to set it up from scratch.
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Hermes 'Forgot' 798 Messages After a Crash — the Session Amnesia Bug, Explained and Fixed
Teknium's own Telegram DM time-traveled back 2.7 days after a gateway restart: 798 real messages ended up in an identity-less orphan session. Root cause, the fix, and how to recover your data.
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Hermes Agent Context-File Directory Chain: All AGENTS.md Files from Git Root to CWD, Merged Automatically
Hermes Agent now merges every AGENTS.md from the git repository root down through every intermediate directory to your working directory into the system prompt at session start: repo-wide conventions first, deep-directory specifics last (highest priority), with provenance labels, content dedup and budget caps. How the chain works, the context-file priority system, and how to structure AGENTS.md in a monorepo.
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Hermes Fixed 4 Sneaky Bugs in One Day: Attachments, API Keys, Updates, Search
On 2026-08-09 Hermes Agent fixed four deep, hard-to-notice bugs in one merge day: attachments silently vanishing from queued gateway replies, model switching reading another profile's API key, orphaned backend processes breaking Windows desktop updates, and session search returning empty results for everyday queries with special characters. Each fix explained with a real-world case.
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Hermes Agent MCP Config Context Variables: ${userHome}, ${workspaceFolder} and 3 More Cursor-Style Variables
Hermes Agent MCP server configs now interpolate Cursor-style context variables — ${userHome}, ${workspaceFolder}, ${workspaceFolderBasename}, ${pathSeparator} and ${/}. MCP configs copied from Cursor work unchanged, and you never have to hard-code absolute paths again. Full examples and resolution rules inside.
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Hermes Agent Cron Upgrade: monitor-mode, notepad, and preflight validation
Hermes Agent cron gets three new tools: monitor-mode hash-suppresses unchanged scheduled runs to zero LLM cost; notepad gives every job a durable cross-run KV scratchpad; preflight validates job config before any agent machinery is built — a broken job warns once and never burns tokens. Real CLI examples and config keys included.
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Hermes Can Now Read PDF, Word, Excel, EPUB, and RTF Documents: A Practical Guide
From Jupyter notebooks to Word contracts, Excel reports, EPUB ebooks, and legacy RTF files — Hermes' read_file now converts them all into clean Markdown you can read directly. This post explains the split between the built-in extractors and the optional anydoc extension, the lazy-install mechanism, the OCR path for scanned documents, URL handling, and real-world scenarios for each document type.
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hermes verify: One Command That Answers 'Does This Project Actually Run?'
Hermes Agent's new hermes verify subcommand auto-detects your project type (Node/Python/Go/Rust/Java/Make/docker-compose), runs bootstrap → build → test → start → readiness poll, and returns a structured pass/fail verdict. It can also save the detected recipe to .hermes/environment.json for reproducible checks. Full flags and real usage included.
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