Hermes Agent 0.16 "Surface" release ships native desktop app and remote gateway support
Hermes Agent 0.16, dubbed the "Surface" release, ships a native desktop app for macOS, Linux, and Windows alongside remote gateway support, a revamped web dashboard, fuzzy model search, slash-undo, and security improvements.
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The release transforms Hermes from a primarily terminal-driven tool into a multi-surface platform with a native GUI and remote agent control, removing the barrier that previously required users to read config files and terminal logs to operate it.
- 01Hermes Agent 0.16 is named the 'Surface' release, focused on giving the platform proper user-facing interfaces.
- 02A native desktop app for macOS, Linux, and Windows is now an official part of Hermes, not a separate experiment.
- 03Remote gateway support lets the desktop app connect to Hermes running on a server, homelab, hosted box, or teammate's machine via OAuth or username/password.
Hermes Agent 0.16, called the "Surface" release, is described in the video as a large step rather than a minor patch. The central theme is surfacing Hermes's existing powerful internals through real user-facing interfaces. The headline feature is the Hermes Desktop app — now officially part of the main Hermes story rather than a separate experiment — available natively on macOS, Linux, and Windows. It provides a proper chat window with streaming responses, a searchable and archivable session list, file drag-and-drop, clipboard image paste, a command palette, and a model picker in the status bar. The app makes previously opaque features like sessions, models, skills, profiles, messaging, cron, and sub-agents more visible and accessible.
Remote gateway support is highlighted as one of the most important changes for serious users.
Remote gateway support is highlighted as one of the most important changes for serious users. The desktop app can connect to a remote Hermes gateway via OAuth or username/password, meaning the laptop acts purely as a GUI while the agent, API keys, compute, and long-running tasks run on a dedicated machine that stays online. Multi-profile sessions extend this further, allowing each profile to point to its own remote host and enabling concurrent sessions across profiles in a single window — effectively turning Hermes into a control panel for multiple agent environments.
Additional upgrades include a web dashboard now closer to a full admin panel with controls for MCP, messaging channels, credentials, webhooks, memory, gateways, and system settings; a faster onboarding path through Nous Portal's Quick Setup; an improved model picker with fuzzy search, better provider grouping, and hourly catalog refreshes; a slash-undo command to rewind the last few turns without restarting a session; a trimmed default skill system with a new trusted NVIDIA skills tap; and security and reliability improvements including patched dependencies, stronger SSRF checks, safer subprocess handling, and better file guards.
Key facts
- 01Hermes Agent 0.16 is named the 'Surface' release, focused on giving the platform proper user-facing interfaces.
- 02A native desktop app for macOS, Linux, and Windows is now an official part of Hermes, not a separate experiment.
- 03Remote gateway support lets the desktop app connect to Hermes running on a server, homelab, hosted box, or teammate's machine via OAuth or username/password.
- 04Multi-profile sessions allow concurrent connections to different remote Hermes hosts within a single desktop window.
- 05The web dashboard has been upgraded toward a full admin panel covering MCP, messaging channels, credentials, webhooks, memory, gateways, and system settings.
- 06A new slash-undo command lets users rewind the last few turns to fix mistakes without restarting a session.
- 07Security improvements include patched dependencies, stronger SSRF checks, safer subprocess handling, and better file guards.
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