Nous Research Ships Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, Turning Agent Profiles Into a Roster of Named Bots

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Bot Mode transforms how Hermes Agent organizes AI sessions. Instead of a flat session list, each bot is a full Hermes profile with isolated config, memory, skills, credentials, and chat history stored under ~/.hermes/profiles/<name>/. Bots communicate through a persistent Agent Inbox using real CLI handoffs — hermes -p <bot> chat commands — enabling @mention-based task routing between specialized agents such as a scout, reviewer, and publisher passing work down a chain. The feature launched as a one-day public beta plugin from co-founder Teknium and now ships bundled and default-on in Hermes Desktop v0.20.3, under Settings → Plugins. Both Hermes Agent and the plugin are MIT licensed. The architecture is pragmatic: bots reuse existing profile primitives and cron infrastructure, keeping the new surface area small. Enterprises should note the absence of admin console, SSO, central audit log, and policy layer — limiting immediate suitability for regulated environments without additional controls.