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Hermes Agent 0.19.1 Turns Ten Days of Main-Branch Churn Into a Stable Release
Hermes Agent 0.19.1 packages a large stabilization wave for Telegram, voice, desktop updates, FLUX3 delivery, and a new Buzz/Nostr gateway.
OpenClaw 2026.6.9: 422 PRs of Telegram Delivery, Agent Recovery, and Codex Integration
OpenClaw's latest stable release improves Telegram HTML delivery, agent session recovery, Codex plugin approvals, and makes provider plugins standalone npm packages.
Nous Research Drops Hermes Desktop: A Native App for the Self-Improving AI Agent
The open-source Hermes Agent, already running in terminals, Discord servers, and Telegram chats, now has a polished native desktop client. Public preview is live for macOS, Windows, and Linux with streaming chat, side-by-side previews, voice, and full config portability.
Open Design turns Claude Design’s artifact loop into an open-source local workflow
Open Design is a local-first, Apache-2.0 design studio that uses your existing coding-agent CLI, file-based skills, portable design systems, and a sandboxed artifact preview loop to generate pages, decks, apps, documents, and media.