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A tiny anti-slop zine for agents, tools, model ops, and actually useful AI weirdness. No X API toll paid.

Editor picks

Thinking, experiments, papers, and opinionated field notes first. Releases are useful, but they live downstairs now.
#01
r/hermesagent · reddit · Jul 23

What's your experience with Honcho as Hermes memory provider.

Editor's read

A Reddit field report/discussion from r/hermesagent. Plain version: I'm considering using Honcho Memory with Hermes and would love to hear from people who have real-world experience with it.

Why you might care

Directly relevant to your agent stack. This can affect Hermes behavior, upgrade timing, plugins, gateway surfaces, or ideas worth stealing for OAC/DestructoR666.

Source excerpt

I'm considering using Honcho Memory with Hermes and would love to hear from people who have real-world experience with it. A few questions: - How well does Honcho Memory work with Hermes in practice? - What kinds of workflows or use cases are you using it for? - How is the retrieval quality and relevance over time? - Have you run into any issues with latenc…

reddithermesagentshermesagent
read78.8hermes, hermes, agents, memory, eval
#02
r/hermesagent · reddit · Jul 22

Cache hit rate is the one number that determines your LLM bill — a small improvement cuts cost in half

Editor's read

A Reddit field report/discussion from r/hermesagent. Plain version: I run 5 AI agents and was burning through API credits.

Why you might care

Directly relevant to your agent stack. This can affect Hermes behavior, upgrade timing, plugins, gateway surfaces, or ideas worth stealing for OAC/DestructoR666.

Source excerpt

I run 5 AI agents and was burning through API credits. The fix wasn't a cheaper model or a different provider. It was cache hit rate. Providers cache your prompt prefix and charge 10-20x less for cached tokens. A small cache improvement cuts your fresh-token spend nearly in half because the per-token discount is so large. Three things that worked: Bifrost g…

reddithermesagentshermesagent
read74.5hermes, hermes, agent, agents, ai agent
#03
r/hermesagent · reddit · Jul 23

Showcase Thursday - Drop your Hermes projects here.

Editor's read

A Reddit field report/discussion from r/hermesagent. Plain version: Showcase Thursday — post your Hermes Agent builds, tools, workflows, and integrations.

Why you might care

Directly relevant to your agent stack. This can affect Hermes behavior, upgrade timing, plugins, gateway surfaces, or ideas worth stealing for OAC/DestructoR666.

Source excerpt

Showcase Thursday — post your Hermes Agent builds, tools, workflows, and integrations. New Post every week 6am EST. Tell us: • What it does • How it's helpful Include a link to code or demo if you have one. Rules: • No marketplace or affiliate links • Any contribution level welcome (Might be flagged by automod but will be approved, be patient) • Thread pinn…

reddithermesagentshermesagent
read67.9hermes, hermes, agents, workflow
#04
Hacker News · hn · Jul 23

Show HN: Hanesu – An experimental workflow layer for AI coding agents

Editor's read

A community-submitted project/thread. A newly surfaced project/tool lead: An experimental workflow layer for AI coding agents Treat it as an early smoke signal, not a verdict. HN: 1 points, 0 comments. Query: AI agents tool use.

Why you might care

HN is noisy, but comments surface implementation pain fast. Good for spotting whether a shiny thing survives contact with engineers.

Source excerpt

HN: 1 points, 0 comments. Query: AI agents tool use.

hnAI agents tool use
read65.7agent, agents, ai agent, coding agent
#05
Hacker News · hn · Jul 22

Show HN: Focus on approving agent actions and managing team MCP access

Editor's read

A community-submitted project/thread. A title-first lead about: Focus on approving agent actions and managing team MCP access. Skim it only if that maps to current agent/tooling work. Treat it as an early smoke signal, not a verdict. HN: 2 points, 0 comments. Query: AI agents tool use.

Why you might care

MCP is becoming the plumbing layer for agent tools. Worth watching because it shapes what Hermes/OAC can connect to without bespoke glue code.

Source excerpt

HN: 2 points, 0 comments. Query: AI agents tool use.

hnAI agents tool use
read65.0agent, agents, ai agent, mcp

Articles / research / opinions

The stuff people are thinking, trying, arguing, and building with the tech. This is the main read pile.
#06
OpenAI News · feed · Jul 22

Introducing OpenAI Presence

Editor's read

A post from OpenAI News. Plain version: Introducing OpenAI Presence, a proven enterprise AI agent platform that helps organizations deploy trusted voice and chat agents for customer and internal workflows.

Why you might care

Kept because it matched the radar’s AI/agent/tooling filters. Skim title + source first; open only if it lines up with current Hermes/OAC work.

Source excerpt

Introducing OpenAI Presence, a proven enterprise AI agent platform that helps organizations deploy trusted voice and chat agents for customer and internal workflows.

openaimodelsagents
read57.8agents, ai agent, workflow
#07
Hacker News · hn · Jul 22

Building an AI-orchestrated publishing workflow for a long-form writing project

Editor's read

A community-submitted project/thread. A practical how-to or field note. The title points at this angle: Building an AI-orchestrated publishing workflow for a long-form writing project. Treat it as an early smoke signal, not a verdict. HN: 2 points, 0 comments. Query: AI agents tool use.

Why you might care

HN is noisy, but comments surface implementation pain fast. Good for spotting whether a shiny thing survives contact with engineers.

Source excerpt

HN: 2 points, 0 comments. Query: AI agents tool use.

hnAI agents tool use
read57.6agent, agents, ai agent, tool use
#08
OpenAI News · feed · Jul 22

Building AI infrastructure with the Effingham County community

Editor's read

A post from OpenAI News. Plain version: OpenAI announces Project Camellia in Effingham County, Georgia, with commitments to responsible energy, community investment, jobs, and access to Codex.

Why you might care

Codex is turning into OpenAI’s agentic workbench. Worth tracking for cloud dev-env patterns, long-running task ergonomics, and places Hermes can stay lighter/local.

Source excerpt

OpenAI announces Project Camellia in Effingham County, Georgia, with commitments to responsible energy, community investment, jobs, and access to Codex.

openaimodelsagents
read51.3agents, codex
#09
OpenAI News · feed · Jul 21

NTT DATA Group cuts incident analysis to 30 minutes with Codex

Editor's read

A post from OpenAI News. Plain version: NTT DATA Group uses ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to help 9,000 employees automate work, cut incident analysis to 30 minutes, and scale secure AI adoption.

Why you might care

Codex is turning into OpenAI’s agentic workbench. Worth tracking for cloud dev-env patterns, long-running task ergonomics, and places Hermes can stay lighter/local.

Source excerpt

NTT DATA Group uses ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to help 9,000 employees automate work, cut incident analysis to 30 minutes, and scale secure AI adoption.

openaimodelsagents
read50.4agents, codex
#10
Latent Space · feed · Jul 23

[AINews] "Laguna S 2.1 Released: Cheaper than Deepseek v4 Flash, Better than V4 Pro"

Editor's read

A post from Latent Space. Plain version: A title-first lead about: [AINews] "Laguna S 2.1 Released: Cheaper than Deepseek v4 Flash, Better than V4 Pro". Skim it only if that maps to current agent/tooling work.

Why you might care

Kept because it matched the radar’s AI/agent/tooling filters. Skim title + source first; open only if it lines up with current Hermes/OAC work.

Source excerpt

a quiet day lets us highlight a new neolab win.

aiindustryagents
read45.6agents
#11
Latent Space · feed · Jul 23

Inside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI

Editor's read

A post from Latent Space. Plain version: Poolside's co-CEO on how his small team of top researchers built a model factory capable of training Laguna S - a 118B MOE beating Thinky's ~1T open weights model...

Why you might care

Kept because it matched the radar’s AI/agent/tooling filters. Skim title + source first; open only if it lines up with current Hermes/OAC work.

Source excerpt

Poolside's co-CEO on how his small team of top researchers built a model factory capable of training Laguna S - a 118B MOE beating Thinky's ~1T open weights model... and this is just the beginning.

aiindustryagents
read45.6agents
#12
Simon Willison · feed · Jul 22

Quoting Seth Larson

Editor's read

A post from Simon Willison. Plain version: The Python Package Index (PyPI) now rejects new files being uploaded to releases that are older than 14 days.

Why you might care

Directly relevant to context bloat and tool-loading discipline. If it is good, it may inform how Hermes/OAC keeps prompts lean.

Source excerpt

The Python Package Index (PyPI) now rejects new files being uploaded to releases that are older than 14 days. This restriction was put in place to prevent old and long-stable releases from being poisoned in case publishing tokens or workflows of PyPI projects were compromised. As far as we are aware this has not yet been abused, but there is no technical re…

llmtoolspractical
read45.5workflow
#13
Hugging Face Blog · feed · Jul 22

Bringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to Diffusers

Editor's read

A post from Hugging Face Blog. Plain version: A title-first lead about: Bringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to Diffusers. Skim it only if that maps to current agent/tooling work.

Why you might care

Potentially useful for keeping your stack cheaper, more private, and less dependent on cloud APIs. Worth a skim if it looks practical.

Source excerpt

No summary from source. Open the link if this smells interesting.

modelsopen-sourceinference
read45.2inference
#14
Simon Willison · feed · Jul 22

Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?

Editor's read

A post from Simon Willison. Plain version: Excellent piece of work by Dylan Castillo, who took a deep-dive into the frequently pondered question of whether the AI labs have been deliberately training models to draw pelicans riding bicycles in response…

Why you might care

Evals are how we avoid vibes-only agent work. Useful if it suggests tests we can adapt for Hermes/OAC reliability.

Source excerpt

Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? Excellent piece of work by Dylan Castillo, who took a deep-dive into the frequently pondered question of whether the AI labs have been deliberately training models to draw pelicans riding bicycles in response to my deeply unscientific benchmark . I've been randomly spot-checking this in the past by testing models against other an…

llmtoolspractical
read45.1benchmark

Releases / software updates

Important for staying current, but intentionally below the longform material. Changelogs are seasoning, not dinner.
#01
GitHub · release · Jul 20

Hermes Agent: Hermes Agent v0.19.0 (2026.7.20) — The Quicksilver Release

Release note

A new release/update from Hermes Agent. Plain version: Hermes is the messenger god, and this window we made him move like it.

Why you might care

Directly relevant to your agent stack. This can affect Hermes behavior, upgrade timing, plugins, gateway surfaces, or ideas worth stealing for OAC/DestructoR666.

Source excerpt

# Hermes Agent v0.19.0 (v2026.7.20) **Release Date:** July 20, 2026 **Since v0.18.0:** ~2,245 commits · ~1,065 merged PRs · ~2,465 files changed · ~300,000 insertions · ~36,000 deletions · **~3,300 issues closed** · **450+ community contributors** > **The Quicksilver Release.** Hermes is the messenger god, and this window we made him move like it. First-tur…

hermesagent-opsNousResearch/hermes-agent
watch release55.2hermes, hermes
#02
GitHub · release · Jul 21

Pydantic AI: v2.14.1 (2026-07-20)

Release note

A new release/update from Pydantic AI. Plain version: Always fetch MCP instructions via a durable step under DBOSDurability by @DouweM in * Temporarily withdraw durable wrapper-agent deprecations by @dsfaccini in Full Changelog:

Why you might care

Competitive intel: how OpenAI thinks agent SDKs should work, where Hermes is ahead/behind, and patterns we might borrow without joining the mothership.

Source excerpt

## What's Changed ### 🐛 Bug Fixes * Always fetch MCP instructions via a durable step under `DBOSDurability` by @DouweM in https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/pull/6624 * Temporarily withdraw durable wrapper-agent deprecations by @dsfaccini in https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/pull/6625 **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/co…

agentspythonpydantic/pydantic-ai
watch release52.0agent, agents, mcp
#03
GitHub · release · Jul 7

Hermes Agent: Hermes Agent v0.18.2 (2026.7.7.2)

Release note

A new release/update from Hermes Agent. Plain version: --- ## What's in this patch - fix(whatsapp): unpin Baileys from git commit, use published 7.0.0-rc13 ([#60643](

Why you might care

Directly relevant to your agent stack. This can affect Hermes behavior, upgrade timing, plugins, gateway surfaces, or ideas worth stealing for OAC/DestructoR666.

Source excerpt

# Hermes Agent v0.18.2 (v2026.7.7.2) **Release Date:** July 7, 2026 > Same-day patch on top of v0.18.1, picking up the WhatsApp Baileys dependency fix needed for tagged-release Docker builds. --- ## What's in this patch - **fix(whatsapp): unpin Baileys from git commit, use published 7.0.0-rc13** ([#60643](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60…

hermesagent-opsNousResearch/hermes-agent
watch release48.0hermes, hermes
#04
GitHub · release · Jul 16

OpenAI Agents Python: v0.18.3

Release note

A new release/update from OpenAI Agents Python. Plain version: feat: make task and turn tracing spans configurable by @seratch in * feat(realtime): track response usage in session context by @seratch in * fix(memory): serialize OpenAI conversation session initialization by @russeell in h…

Why you might care

Competitive intel: how OpenAI thinks agent SDKs should work, where Hermes is ahead/behind, and patterns we might borrow without joining the mothership.

Source excerpt

## What's Changed * feat: make task and turn tracing spans configurable by @seratch in https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/pull/3834 * feat(realtime): track response usage in session context by @seratch in https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/pull/3812 * fix(memory): serialize OpenAI conversation session initialization by @russeell in h…

agentssdkopenai/openai-agents-python
watch release44.6agents, ai agent, memory, openai agents
#05
GitHub · release · Jul 21

MCP TypeScript SDK: @modelcontextprotocol/node@2.0.0-beta.5

Release note

A new release/update from MCP TypeScript SDK. Plain version: Patch Changes - Updated dependencies [1480241, f413763]: - @modelcontextprotocol/server@2.0.0-beta.5

Why you might care

MCP is becoming the plumbing layer for agent tools. Worth watching because it shapes what Hermes/OAC can connect to without bespoke glue code.

Source excerpt

### Patch Changes - Updated dependencies [[`1480241`](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/commit/1480241e2a2a7f0ceee8e7723b2adcf88579bb36), [`f413763`](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/commit/f4137630c05dc9a4fb14d4d3777f5cb167bd6313)]: - @modelcontextprotocol/server@2.0.0-beta.5

mcptoolsmodelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk
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#06
GitHub · release · Jul 21

MCP TypeScript SDK: @modelcontextprotocol/server@2.0.0-beta.5

Release note

A new release/update from MCP TypeScript SDK. Plain version: Minor Changes - #2501 1480241 Thanks @felixweinberger!

Why you might care

MCP is becoming the plumbing layer for agent tools. Worth watching because it shapes what Hermes/OAC can connect to without bespoke glue code.

Source excerpt

### Minor Changes - [#2501](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/pull/2501) [`1480241`](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/commit/1480241e2a2a7f0ceee8e7723b2adcf88579bb36) Thanks [@felixweinberger](https://github.com/felixweinberger)! - Export the `Protocol` base class and `mergeCapabilities` from the `@modelcontextprot…

mcptoolsmodelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk
skim changelog38.6mcp
#07
GitHub · release · Jul 10

OpenAI Agents Python: v0.18.2

Release note

A new release/update from OpenAI Agents Python. Plain version: feat: support GPT-5.6 request controls by @seratch in * feat: add hosted multi-agent beta support by @seratch in * fix(sandbox): own Daytona PTY worker tasks by @seratch in

Why you might care

Competitive intel: how OpenAI thinks agent SDKs should work, where Hermes is ahead/behind, and patterns we might borrow without joining the mothership.

Source excerpt

## What's Changed * feat: support GPT-5.6 request controls by @seratch in https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/pull/3794 * feat: add hosted multi-agent beta support by @seratch in https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/pull/3788 * fix(sandbox): own Daytona PTY worker tasks by @seratch in https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/pull/…

agentssdkopenai/openai-agents-python
skim changelog37.0agents, ai agent, openai agents
#08
GitHub · release · Jul 7

Hermes Agent: Hermes Agent v0.18.1 (2026.7.7)

Release note

A new release/update from Hermes Agent. Plain version: , hardening, and in-progress feature work — into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, hosted deployments, PyPI installs).

Why you might care

Directly relevant to your agent stack. This can affect Hermes behavior, upgrade timing, plugins, gateway surfaces, or ideas worth stealing for OAC/DestructoR666.

Source excerpt

# Hermes Agent v0.18.1 (v2026.7.7) **Release Date:** July 7, 2026 > Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~660 PRs merged since v0.18.0 (July 1) — bug fixes, hardening, and in-progress feature work — into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, hosted deployments, PyPI installs). --- ## About this release This is an infrastructure-dr…

hermesagent-opsNousResearch/hermes-agent
watch release48.0hermes, hermes
#09
GitHub · release · Jul 1

Hermes Agent: Hermes Agent v0.18.0 (2026.7.1) — The Judgment Release

Release note

A new release/update from Hermes Agent. Plain version: Over the last week and a half the team put nearly all of its effort into one goal: resolve *…

Why you might care

Directly relevant to your agent stack. This can affect Hermes behavior, upgrade timing, plugins, gateway surfaces, or ideas worth stealing for OAC/DestructoR666.

Source excerpt

# Hermes Agent v0.18.0 (v2026.7.1) **Release Date:** July 1, 2026 **Since v0.17.0:** ~1,720 commits · 998 merged PRs · 2,215 files changed · ~251,000 insertions · ~41,000 deletions · **949 issues closed** · **370+ community contributors** > **The Judgment Release.** Over the last week and a half the team put nearly all of its effort into one goal: resolve *…

hermesagent-opsNousResearch/hermes-agent
watch release48.0hermes, hermes
#10
GitHub · release · Jun 19

Hermes Agent: Hermes Agent v0.17.0 (v2026.6.19)

Release note

A new release/update from Hermes Agent. Plain version: The Reach Release. v0.16.0 put Hermes on your desktop. v0.17.0 is about how far that reach extends — across new places to…

Why you might care

Directly relevant to your agent stack. This can affect Hermes behavior, upgrade timing, plugins, gateway surfaces, or ideas worth stealing for OAC/DestructoR666.

Source excerpt

# Hermes Agent v0.17.0 (v2026.6.19) **Release Date:** June 19, 2026 **Since v0.16.0:** ~1,475 commits · ~800 merged PRs · 1,693 files changed · 235,390 insertions · 50,730 deletions · 300+ issues closed · 245 community contributors > **The Reach Release.** v0.16.0 put Hermes on your desktop. v0.17.0 is about how far that reach extends — across new places to…

hermesagent-opsNousResearch/hermes-agent
watch release48.0hermes, hermes

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Twitter is a goblin with binoculars, not the editorial board. V0 watches free sources first: RSS, Reddit, GitHub, HN, arXiv. Articles, research, opinionated field notes, and real user pain reports get top billing; releases are parked lower because staying current matters, but changelog spelunking is not a personality.

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