Hermes Agent 10x'd: five upgrades that just landed on the best AI agent out
Jack Roberts unpacks five massive upgrades to the Hermes AI agent — the ones that finally push it past every other agent for real work.
Jack Roberts calls Hermes 'the best AI agent on the planet' and this week's update just made his case a lot easier to argue.
Five upgrades landed at once, and each one closes a gap that used to force you into a workaround:
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Deeper tool integration. Hermes now natively chains through more of the workflow apps you already use — no glue code, no janky Zapier bridges.
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Better long-task memory. Previous versions lost the thread on runs longer than ~15 minutes. The new memory layer holds context through multi-hour jobs so you can actually delegate real work.
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Faster iteration loops. Fewer round-trips per task = lower cost + lower latency. Small change, huge effect on how usable the agent feels.
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Native error recovery. When an API call fails, Hermes now retries with a modified plan instead of dumping the whole run. This is the single biggest reliability win — it stops the 'set it and check on it every 10 minutes' anxiety.
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Cheaper by default. The routing under the hood picks smaller models when the task doesn't need heavy reasoning, which cuts token costs substantially on high-volume workflows.
Skip the struggle takeaway: If you tried an AI agent 3–6 months ago and gave up because it was too flaky, the reliability floor just moved up dramatically. Time to give agents another look — starting with your most repetitive marketing task.