Hermes Agent Release v0.13.0: Formerly Withdrawn Multi-Agent Dashboard Refactored, Introducing Goal-Locking Task

According to DynaBeat monitoring, Nous Research has released the open-source agent framework Hermes Agent v0.13.0. This version is officially named "Tenacity" and is specifically designed to address the problem of agents abandoning tasks halfway or deviating from the objective.

The most significant change is the reintroduction of the Kanban multi-agent cooperation system, which was previously briefly tested and then withdrawn. The new Kanban board now includes heartbeat monitoring, zombie process recovery, a single-task retry limit, and an "illusion recovery" mechanism, mandating that a claiming agent must complete the task at hand to prevent the entire AI team from idling on the shared board.

Regarding individual agent control, the new version introduces the /goal command, which allows the agent to tightly focus on the current objective without being disrupted by multi-turn conversations. Several security enhancements have been made to the underlying mechanisms: Checkpoints v2 has rewritten the state persistence to automatically clean up obsolete records, and ongoing sessions will automatically resume after a system gateway restart. Additionally, this version has addressed 8 critical P0-level vulnerabilities, enabled data obfuscation by default, and transformed the underlying model integration into a fully pluggable architecture.