Nous Research Ships Hermes Agent Profile Builder: Identity, Model, Skills, and MCP Servers in One Dashboard Flow

Nous Research has added a Blank Slate setup mode to its open-source Hermes Agent. It starts an agent with everything off except provider, model, File Operations, and Terminal. You opt in to the rest. The post Nous Research Updates Hermes Agent With a Blank Slate Mode That Pins Toolsets via platform_toolsets.cli and disabled_toolsets appeared first on MarkTechPost.

We look at Hermes Agent's new asynchronous subagents from Nous Research. The delegate tool can now spawn background agents that no longer block the parent chat. We walk through the async_delegation toolset tracked in issue #5586, covering how to spawn, check, steer, and collect tasks. We also cover subagent isolation, the synchronous-versus-asynchronous tradeoffs, and when to reach for ACP instead The post Hermes Agent Adds Asynchronous Subagents, So Delegated Work No Longer Blocks the Parent Chat appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Hermes Desktop is a no-terminal GUI sharing one agent core, skills, and memory with the Hermes Agent CLI. The post Nous Research Releases Hermes Desktop: A Native Cross-Platform Front End for Hermes Agent v0.15.2 with Streaming Tool Output appeared first on MarkTechPost.

The open-source project adds local persistent memory to Hermes Agent through six layers, gated retrieval, and a wiki. The post Meet Memory OS: A 6-Layer Open-Source Memory Stack Built on Top of Hermes Agent appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Nous Research's Hermes Agent adds Tool Search to fix MCP context bloat using BM25 progressive schema disclosure. The post Hermes Agent Ships Tool Search for MCP: Anthropic Evals Show 49% to 74% Accuracy Gain on Opus 4 appeared first on MarkTechPost.

As MCP crosses 97 million monthly SDK downloads and AI agents move into production workflows, authentication has become the most critical infrastructure decision teams face. This guide ranks the eight leading platforms — WorkOS, Stytch, Auth0 by Okta, Composio, Nango, Arcade, TrueFoundry, and Cloudflare — on spec compliance, enterprise identity depth, integration breadth, and real-world fit for 2026 deployments. The post Best Authentication Platforms for AI Agents and MCP Servers in 2026 appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Nous Research releases Contrastive Neuron Attribution (CNA), a method that identifies and ablates sparse MLP neuron circuits to steer LLM behavior — no sparse autoencoder training, no weight modification, and no degradation of general capability benchmarks. The post Nous Research Releases Contrastive Neuron Attribution (CNA): Sparse MLP Circuit Steering Without SAE Training or Weight Modification appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Why MCP servers keep losing to CLIs once the agent gets a terminal The post One Flexible Tool Beats a Hundred Dedicated Ones appeared first on Towards Data Science.