NousResearch Open Source Projects

[Bug]: HERMES_DESKTOP_IGNORE_EXISTING / --ignore-existing does not prevent a local backend (ACTIVE_HERMES_ROOT resolves first) Open

area/config comp/desktop P2 type/bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117682 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

[Bug]: One-shot `hermes chat` CLI calls don't read provider API keys from config.yaml or .env Open

area/auth area/config bug comp/cli P2 type/bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117667 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

[Bug]: Custom endpoint names containing a colon (e.g. host:port) permanently 404 on Use/Delete Open

area/config area/local-models bug comp/cli comp/dashboard needs-repro P2 sweeper:risk-compatibility type/bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117666 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026

fix(compression): anti-thrash breaker has no frequency dimension — 108 successful compactions trip nothing Open

area/compression comp/agent P2 sweeper:risk-session-state type/bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117574 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

feat(process): notify_on_complete completion wakes have no budget cap Open

comp/gateway P3 tool/terminal type/feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117555 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

[Bug]: /review fails UnscopedSecretError on HERMES_CODEX_BASE_URL when auxiliary.review.provider is openai-codex (multiplexed Desktop serve) Open

area/profiles comp/agent comp/desktop P2 provider/openai sweeper:risk-session-state tool/delegate type/bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117544 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026

review lanes: terminal safety gate refuses heredoc script execution in single-query mode (review-capability limit; evidence should travel as literal outputs) Open

P3 tool/terminal type/docs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117543 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

Feature request: board-level kanban archive Open

comp/cron P3 type/feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117542 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026

[Bug]: Desktop Kanban board has no live updates on auth-required remotes — completion notifications never fire Open

area/auth comp/desktop comp/plugins P3 sweeper:risk-security-boundary type/bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 54/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117541 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026

Feature request: native remote/HTTP transport for MCP delegation (not just stdio) Open

comp/cli duplicate P3 tool/mcp type/feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117532 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

[Feature]: Session Timer should represent/show only the Active Session Time Open

area/sessions comp/desktop P3 type/feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117530 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

[Bug]: Desktop update starts a local Gateway and steals Telegram polling from an SSH/VPS Gateway Open

area/install-update comp/cli comp/desktop needs-repro P2 platform/telegram sweeper:risk-compatibility sweeper:risk-message-delivery type/bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117529 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

[Feature]: Bot Mode — rooms and 1:1 bot chats should feel like a real chat (friend-group vibe) Open

comp/desktop comp/plugins P3 type/feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117520 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2026

[Bug]: DeepSeek picker offers retired ids and shows V4.1 Flash as version-less "Deepseek Flash" Open

comp/agent comp/cli comp/desktop P3 provider/deepseek type/bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117516 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

Google-hosted MCP OAuth (Gmail/Calendar) never requests access_type=offline — no refresh token issued, connection dies after ~1h Open

area/auth comp/cli comp/tools P3 tool/mcp type/bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117510 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

Multiplexed profile whose adapter start fails transiently is never retried Open

area/profiles comp/gateway P2 sweeper:risk-message-delivery type/bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117508 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

cron: _owner_is_live() rejects a live process on an exact start-time compare, marking running executions unknown Open

comp/cron P2 type/bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117505 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

Mid-turn provider fallback continues the tool loop, so side-effecting tools can execute on an unselected route Open

area/config comp/agent needs-decision P3 type/feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117495 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

[Bug]: Hindsight auto-recall and auto-retain run on synthetic runtime turns, not just user input Open

area/memory comp/agent comp/plugins P3 sweeper:risk-session-state tool/memory type/bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117487 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2026

[Bug]: The rate-limit cooldown guesses the wait exponentially while the provider's own reset time is parsed a few lines earlier and dropped Open

area/billing comp/agent P2 type/bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117484 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

[Bug]: `kanban complete` accepts a completion with no evidence at all - the card lands in `done` carrying nothing Open

comp/cron P3 type/bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117483 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

[Bug]: A provider quota outage (429) during credential resolution is reported and counted as an authentication failure Open

area/auth area/billing comp/cli P2 type/bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117482 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2026

Bot Mode group chat: a Stop-hold swallows the message that triggered it, and hold detection cannot be disabled Open

area/sessions comp/desktop P2 sweeper:risk-message-delivery sweeper:risk-session-state type/bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117472 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2026

[Bug]: @folder: listing breaks for folders inside a widened allowed_root but outside cwd Open

comp/agent P3 type/bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117468 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

Nous Portal device-code grant hard-expires 30 days after login on self-hosted gateways — hourly refresh rotation does not slide it (7/7 fleet outages) Open

area/auth comp/cli P2 provider/nous sweeper:risk-security-boundary type/bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117461 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

Kanban: per-board default_skills force-loaded on every dispatched worker (both lanes) Open

comp/cron P3 tool/skills type/feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117459 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026

`hermes update` always exits 1 when a profile's gateway runs from a separate checkout — foreign code_sha classified STALE, fleet_restart_pending never discharges Open

area/install-update comp/cli comp/gateway P2 sweeper:risk-compatibility type/bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117449 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026

Stale update receipt causes endless 'mixed sys.modules' warning after failed update Open

area/install-update comp/cli comp/gateway P2 sweeper:risk-compatibility type/bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117438 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026

kanban edit rejects its documented --title/--body/--priority flags; cron list hides paused jobs Open

comp/cli comp/cron P3 type/bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117434 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

kanban show --json omits max_runtime_seconds, so a runtime cap cannot be verified from the CLI Open

comp/cli comp/cron P3 type/bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117433 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2026

register_system_prompt_section(): registered sections are never rendered — no caller for render_system_prompt_sections Open

comp/agent comp/cli comp/plugins P3 type/bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117432 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2026

Silent smart-approval failure mode: empty-verdict guardian responses log at DEBUG only (or not at all), invisible at default log levels Open

comp/tools P2 type/bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117428 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

Model selector shows wrong model (Grok 4 · Med) when actual provider is xai-oauth grok-4 Open

comp/desktop P3 provider/xai type/bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117415 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

MCP OAuth metadata compatibility shim consumes session-long SSE resource responses and deadlocks tool discovery Open

area/auth P2 tool/mcp type/bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117414 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

Supervised gateway rejects local test workflow: request for supported diagnosis (locally modified installation) Open

comp/cron comp/gateway needs-repro P3 question tool/terminal type/bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117411 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026

Desktop Bot chats: GPT-Live voice sessions should use the Bot’s own profile voice Open

area/profiles comp/desktop P3 provider/openai tool/tts type/bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117401 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026

[Feature]: Skill lifecycle guarantees against error self-bootstrapping (delay, falsifiability, retirement, dependency governance) Open

comp/agent innovation needs-decision P3 tool/skills type/feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117398 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

[Perf]: the per-turn <memory-context> block repeats recalled lines, and every repeat is replayed on every later request Open

area/memory comp/agent P2 sweeper:risk-session-state tool/memory type/perf

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117397 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

Desktop: right-rail preview tabs bleed across agent chats (one global storage key, no scope) Open

area/profiles area/sessions comp/desktop P3 sweeper:risk-session-state type/bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117393 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

/model picker: no way to hide unconfigured models.dev catalog providers (governed deployments show dozens of dead entries) Open

area/config comp/cli comp/tui duplicate P3 type/feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117391 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026

Photon zombie-stream probe can never prove liveness: synthetic probe id is rejected as a non-GUID, so silent-inbound (zombie) detection never fires Open

area/streaming comp/plugins P3 sweeper:risk-message-delivery type/bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117390 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026

[Perf]: profiles.list parses each profile.yaml twice per poll — the ui_meta read repeats the listing's own parse Open

area/profiles comp/tui P2 type/perf

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117383 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

[Perf]: list_profiles re-parses three YAML files per profile on every roster poll, including the 119KB installer template Open

comp/cli P3 type/perf

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117378 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

[Bug]: Hermes Desktop chat composer disappears during transient loading state Open

comp/desktop needs-repro P3 type/bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117375 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026

Boot spawn storm: all profile backends + MCP helpers spawn simultaneously, ignoring pool limits Open

comp/desktop P2 type/bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117373 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026

bug(bot-mode): local Group Chat member fails silently when its backend is not running Open

area/sessions comp/desktop P2 sweeper:risk-session-state type/bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117366 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026

reasoning_effort/reasoning_config never applied on oneshot (-z) calls — hardcoded "medium" sent regardless of config Open

area/config area/sessions comp/cli P2 sweeper:risk-compatibility type/bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117364 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026

[Bug]: kanban block_task() cannot classify an already-blocked untyped circuit-breaker card — the typed block kind is silently dropped Open

comp/cron P3 type/bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117363 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

feat: Improve local model recommendation based on GPU VRAM Open

area/local-models comp/cli comp/desktop P3 type/feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117361 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 20, 2026

kanban attachments readback reports zero rows on cards that have task_attachments rows (observed twice) Open

comp/cron P3 type/bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117360 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

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