Hermes Desktop replaces agent profiles with reusable Bots
By Steven Van ·
Nous Research's Bot Mode gives each Bot its own model, memory, skills and picture, and lets Bots talk to one another.
Hermes Desktop's Bot Mode replaces single agent profiles with named Bots, each with its own role, model, memory, skills and profile picture. Bots can use different underlying models from each other and can communicate with one another, so a specialist Bot built once can be reused going forward within Hermes Agent.
Nous Research announced the feature in a post on X on 17 August 2026.
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