Hermes Agent v0.12.0 (v2026.4.30)

Release Date: April 30, 2026
Since v0.11.0: 1,096 commits · 550 merged PRs · 1,270 files changed · 217,776 insertions · 213 community contributors (including co-authors)

The Curator release — Hermes Agent now maintains itself. An autonomous background Curator grades, prunes, and consolidates your skill library on its own schedule. The self-improvement loop that reviews what to save got a substantial upgrade. Four new inference providers, a 18th messaging platform, a 19th via Teams plugin, native Spotify + Google Meet integrations, ComfyUI and TouchDesigner-MCP moved from optional to bundled-by-default, and a ~57% cut to visible TUI cold start.

✨ Highlights

• Autonomous Curator — hermes curator runs as a background agent on the gateway's cron ticker (7-day cycle default). It grades your skill library, consolidates related skills, prunes dead ones, and writes per-run reports to logs/curator/run.json + REPORT.md. Archived skills are classified consolidated-vs-pruned via model + heuristic. Defense-in-depth gates protect bundled/hub skills from mutation. Unified under auxiliary.curator — pick the curator's model in hermes model, manage it from the dashboard. hermes curator status ranks skills by usage (most-used / least-used). (#17277, #17307, #17941, #17868, #18033)

• Self-improvement loop — substantially upgraded — The background review fork (the core of Hermes' self-improvement: after each turn it decides what memories/skills to save or update) is now class-first (rubric-based rather than free-form), active-update biased (prefers the skill the agent just loaded), handles references//templates/ sub-files, and properly inherits the parent's live runtime (provider, model, credentials actually propagate). Restricted to memory + skills toolsets so it can't sprawl. Memory providers shut down cleanly. Prior-turn tool messages excluded from the summary so the fork sees a clean context. (#16026, #17213, #16099, #16569, #16204, #15057)

• Skill integrations — major expansion — ComfyUI v5 with official CLI + REST + hardware-gated local install, moved from optional to built-in by default (#17610, #17631, #17734). TouchDesigner-MCP bundled by default, expanded with GLSL, post-FX, audio, geometry, and 9 new reference docs (#16753, #16624, #16768 — @kshitijk4poor + @SHL0MS). Humanizer skill ports a text-cleaner that strips AI-isms (#16787). claude-design HTML artifact skill + design-md (Google DESIGN.md spec) + airtable salvage + skill_manage edits in external_dirs + direct-URL skill install + /reload-skills slash command. (#16358, #14876, #16291, #17512, #16323, #17744)

• LM Studio — first-class provider — upgraded from a custom-endpoint alias to a full-blown native provider: dedicated auth, hermes doctor checks, reasoning transport, live /models listing. (Salvage of @kshitijk4poor's #17061.) (#17102)

• Four more new inference providers — GMI Cloud (first-class, salvage of #11955 — @isaachuangGMICLOUD), Azure AI Foundry with auto-detection, MiniMax OAuth with PKCE browser flow (salvage #15203), Tencent Tokenhub (salvage of #16860). (#16663, #15845, #17524, #16960)

• Pluggable gateway platforms + Microsoft Teams — the gateway is now a plugin host. Drop-in messaging adapters live outside the core, and Microsoft Teams is the first plugin-shipped platform. (Salvage of #17664.) (#17751, #17828)

• Tencent 元宝 (Yuanbao) — 18th messaging platform — native gateway adapter with text + media delivery. (#16298, #17424)

• Spotify — native tools + bundled skill + wizard — 7 tools (play, search, queue, playlists, devices) behind PKCE OAuth, interactive setup wizard, bundled skill, surfacing in hermes tools, cron usage documented. (#15121, #15130, #15154, #15180)

• Google Meet plugin — join calls, transcribe, speak, follow up. Realtime OpenAI transport + Node bot server, full pipeline bundled as a plugin. (#16364)

• hermes -z one-shot mode + hermes update --check — non-interactive hermes -z <prompt> with --model/--provider/HERMES_INFERENCE_MODEL. hermes update --check preflight. Opt-in pre-update HERMES_HOME backup. (#15702, #15704, #15841, #16539, #16566)

• Models dashboard tab + in-browser model config — rich per-model analytics, switch main + auxiliary models from the dashboard. (#17745, #17802)

• Remote model catalog manifest — OpenRouter + Nous Portal model catalogs are now pulled from a remote manifest so new models show up without a release. (#16033)

• Native multimodal image routing — images now route based on the model's actual vision capability rather than provider defaults. (#16506)

• Gateway media parity — native multi-image sending across Telegram, Discord, Slack, Mattermost, Email, and Signal; centralized audio routing with FLAC support + Telegram document fallback. (#17909, #17833)

• TUI catches up to (and past) the classic CLI — LaTeX rendering (@austinpickett), /reload .env hot-reload, pluggable busy-indicator styles (@OutThisLife, #13610), opt-in auto-resume of last session, expanded light-terminal auto-detection, session delete from /resume picker with d, modified mouse-wheel line scroll, and a /mouse toggle that kills ConPTY's phantom mouse injection (@kevin-ho). (#17175, #17286, #17150, #17130, #17113, #17668, #17669, #15488)

• Observability + achievements plugins — bundled Langfuse observability plugin (salvage #16845) + bundled hermes-achievements plugin that scans full session history. (#16917, #17754)

• TTS provider registry + Piper local TTS — pluggable tts.providers.<name> registry; Piper ships as a native local TTS provider. (Closes #8508.) (#17843, #17885)

• Vercel Sandbox backend — Vercel sandboxes as an execute_code/terminal backend (@kshitijk4poor). (#17445)

• Secret redaction off by default — default flipped to off. Prevents the long-standing patch-corruption incidents where fake secret-shaped substrings mangled tool outputs. Opt in via redaction.enabled: true when you need it. (#16794)

• Cold-start performance — visible TUI cold start cut ~57% via lazy agent init (@OutThisLife), lazy imports of OpenAI / Anthropic / Firecrawl / account_usage, mtime-cached load_config(), memoized get_tool_definitions() with TTL-cached check_fn results, precompiled dangerous-command patterns. (#17190, #17046, #17041, #17098, #17206)

• Configurable prompt cache TTL — prompt_caching.cache_ttl (5m default, 1h opt-in — cost savings for bursty sessions that keep cache warm). Salvage of #12659. (#15065)

🧠 Autonomous Curator & Self-Improvement Loop

Curator — autonomous skill maintenance

• hermes curator as a background agent — runs on the gateway's cron ticker, 7-day cycle by default, umbrella-first prompt, inherits parent config, unbounded iterations (#17277 — issue #7816)
• Per-run reports — logs/curator/run.json + REPORT.md per cycle (#17307)
• Consolidated vs pruned classification — archived skills split with model + heuristic (#17941)
• hermes curator status — ranks skills by usage, shows most-used and least-used (#18033)
• Unified under auxiliary.curator — pick the model in hermes model, configure from the dashboard (#17868)
• Documentation — dedicated curator feature page on the docs site (#17563)
• Fix: seed defaults on update, create logs/curator/ directory, defer fire import (#17927)
• Fix: scan nested archive subdirs in restore_skill (@0xDevNinja) (#17951)
• Fix: use actual skill activity in curator status (@y0shua1ee) (#17953)
• Fix: skill_manage refuses writes on pinned skills; pinning now blocks curator writes (#17562, #17578)
• Fix: bump_use() wired into skill invocation + preload + skill_view (salvage #17782) (#17932)

Self-improvement loop (background review fork)

• Class-first skill-review prompt — rubric-based grading rather than free-form "should this update" (#16026)
• Active-update bias — prefers updating skills the agent just loaded, handles references/ + templates/ sub-files (#17213)
• Fork inherits parent's live runtime — provider, model, credentials actually propagate now (#16099)
• Scoped toolsets — review fork restricted to memory + skills (no shell, no web) (#16569)
• Clean shutdown — background review memory providers exit properly (salvage #15289) (#16204)
• Clean context — prior-history tool messages excluded from review summary (salvage #14967) (#15057)

🧩 Skills Ecosystem

Skill integrations — newly bundled or promoted

• ComfyUI v5 — official CLI + REST + hardware-gated local install; moved from optional to built-in (#17610, #17631, #17734, #17612)
• TouchDesigner-MCP — bundled by default (#16753 — @kshitijk4poor), expanded with GLSL, post-FX, audio, geometry references (#16624), 9 new reference docs (#16768 — @SHL0MS)
• Humanizer — strips AI-isms from text (#16787)
• claude-design — HTML artifact skill with disambiguation from other design skills (#16358)
• design-md — Google's DESIGN.md spec skill (#14876)
• airtable — salvaged skill + skill API keys wired into .env (#15838) (#16291)
• pretext — creative browser demos with @chenglou/pretext (#17259)
• spike + sketch — throwaway experiments + HTML mockups, adapted from gsd-build (#17421)

Skills UX

• Install skills from a direct HTTP(S) URL — hermes skills install <url> (#16323)
• /reload-skills slash command (salvage #17670) (#17744)
• hermes skills list shows enabled/disabled status (#16129)
• skill_manage refuses writes on pinned skills (#17562)
• skill_manage edits external_dirs skills in place (salvage #9966) (#17512, #17289)
• Fix: inline-shell rendering in skill_view (#15376)
• Fix: exclude .archive/ from skill index walk (salvage #17639) (#17931)
• Fix: dedicated docs page per bundled + optional skill (#14929)
• Fix: google-workspace shared HERMES_HOME helper + ship deps as optional extra (#15405)
• Fix: auto-wrap ASCII-art code blocks in generated skill pages (#16497)
• Point agent at hermes-agent skill + docs site for Hermes questions (#16535)

🏗️ Core Agent & Architecture

Provider & Model Support

New providers

• GMI Cloud — first-class API-key provider on par with Arcee/Kilocode/Xiaomi (salvage of #11955 — @isaachuangGMICLOUD) (#16663)
• Azure AI Foundry — auto-detection, full wiring (#15845)
• LM Studio — upgraded from custom-endpoint alias to first-class provider: dedicated auth, doctor checks, reasoning transport, live /models (salvage of #17061 — @kshitijk4poor) (#17102)
• MiniMax OAuth — PKCE browser flow with full OAuth integration (salvage #15203) (#17524)
• Tencent Tokenhub — new provider (salvage of #16860) (#16960)

Model catalog

• Remote model catalog manifest — OpenRouter + Nous Portal catalogs pulled from remote manifest so new models show up without a release (#16033)
• openai/gpt-5.5 and gpt-5.5-pro added to OpenRouter + Nous Portal (#15343)
• deepseek-v4-pro and deepseek-v4-flash added (#14934)
• qwen3.6-plus added to Alibaba-supported models (#16896)
• Gemini free-tier keys blocked at setup with 429 guidance surfacing (#15100)

Model configuration

• Configurable prompt_caching.cache_ttl — 5m default, 1h opt-in (salvage #12659) (#15065)
• /fast whitelist broadened to all OpenAI + Anthropic models (#16883)
• auxiliary.extra_body.reasoning translates into Codex Responses API (#17004)
• hermes fallback command for managing fallback providers (#16052)

Agent Loop & Conversation

• Native multimodal image routing — based on model vision capability, not provider defaults (#16506)
• Delegate child_timeout_seconds default bumped to 600s (#14809)
• Diagnostic dump when subagent times out with 0 API calls (#15105)
• Gateway busts cached agent on compression/context_length config edits (#17008)
• Opt-in runtime-metadata footer on final replies (#17026)
• /reload-mcp awareness — rebuild cached agents + prompt-cache cost confirmation (#17729)
• Fix: repair CamelCase + _tool suffix tool-call emissions (#15124)
• Fix: retry on json.JSONDecodeError instead of treating as local validation error (#15107)
• Fix: handle unescaped control chars in tool_call.arguments (#15356)
• Fix: ordering fix in _copy_reasoning_content_for_api — cross-provider reasoning isolation (@Zjianru) (#15749)
• Fix: inject empty reasoning_content for DeepSeek/Kimi tool_calls unconditionally (@Zjianru) (#15762)
• Fix: persist streamed reasoning_content on assistant turns (#16844) (#16892)
• Fix: cancel coroutine on timeout so worker thread exits; full traceback on tool failure (#17428)
• Fix: isolate get_tool_definitions quiet_mode cache + dedup LCM injection (#17335) (#17889)
• Fix: serialize concurrent hermes_tools RPC calls from execute_code (#17770) (#17894, #17902)
• Fix: rename [SYSTEM: → [IMPORTANT: in all user-injected markers (dodges Azure content filter) (#16114)

Compression

• Retry summary on main model for unknown errors before giving up (#16774)
• Notify users when configured aux model fails even if main-model fallback recovers (#16775)
• /compress wrapped in _busy_command to block input during compression (#15388)
• Fix: reserve system + tools headroom when aux binds threshold (#15631)
• Fix: use text-char sum for multimodal token estimation in _find_tail_cut_by_tokens (#16369)

Session, Memory & State

• Trigram FTS5 index for CJK search, replace LIKE fallback (@alt-glitch) (#16651)
• Index tool_name + tool_calls in FTS5, with repair + migration (salvages #16866) (#16914)
• Checkpoints: auto-prune orphan and stale shadow repos at startup (#16303)
• Memory providers notified on mid-process session_id rotation (#6672) (#17409)
• Fix: quote underscored terms in FTS5 query sanitization (#16915)
• Fix: resolve viking_read 500/412 on file URIs + pseudo-summary URIs (salvage #5886) (#17869)
• Fix: skip external-provider sync on interrupted turns (#15395)
• Fix: close embedded Hindsight async client cleanly (salvage #14605) (#16209)
• Fix: pass session transcript to shutdown_memory_provider on gateway + CLI (#15165) (#16571)
• Fix: write-origin metadata seam (#15346)
• Fix: preserve symlinks during atomic file writes (#16980)
• Refactor: remove flush_memories entirely (#15696)

Auxiliary models

• Fix: surface auxiliary failures in UI (previously silent) (#15324)
• Fix: surface title-gen auxiliary failures instead of silently dropping (#16371)
• Fix: generalize unsupported-parameter detector and harden max_tokens retry (#15633)

📱 Messaging Platforms (Gateway)

New Platforms

• Microsoft Teams (19th platform) — as a plugin, + xdist collision guard (#17828)
• Yuanbao (Tencent 元宝, 18th platform) — native adapter with text + media delivery (#16298, #17424, #16880)

Pluggable Gateway Platforms

• Drop-in messaging adapters — the gateway is now a plugin host for platforms (salvage of #17664) (#17751)

Telegram

• Chat allowlists for groups and forums (@web3blind) (#15027)
• Send fresh finals for stale preview streams (port openclaw#72038) (#16261)
• Render markdown tables as row-group bullets + prompt hint (#16997)
• Document fallback in centralized audio routing (#17833)
• Native multi-image sending (#17909)

Discord

• Opt-in toolsets + ID injection + tool split + Feishu wiring (salvage #15457, #15458) (#15610, #15613)
• Fix: coerce limit parameter to int before min() call (#16319)

Slack

• Register every gateway command as a native slash (Discord/Telegram parity) (#16164)
• strict_mention config — prevents thread auto-engagement (#16193)
• channel_skill_bindings — bind specific skills to specific Slack channels (#16283)

Signal

• Native formatting — markdown → bodyRanges, reply quotes, reactions (#17417)
• Native multi-image sending (#17909)

Feishu / Mattermost / Email / Signal

• All participate in native multi-image sending (#17909)

Gateway Core

• Centralized audio routing + FLAC support + Telegram doc fallback (#17833)
• Native multi-image sending across Telegram, Discord, Slack, Mattermost, Email, Signal (#17909)
• Make hygiene hard message limit configurable (#17000)
• Opt-in runtime-metadata footer on final replies (#17026)
• pre_gateway_dispatch hook — plugins can intercept before dispatch (#15050)
• pre_approval_request / post_approval_response hooks (#16776)
• Fix: timeouts — guard load_config() call against runtime exceptions (#16318)
• Fix: support passing handler tools via registry (#15613)

🔧 Tool System

Plugin-first architecture

• Pluggable gateway platforms — platforms can ship as plugins (#17751)
• Microsoft Teams as first plugin-shipped platform (#17828)
• pre_gateway_dispatch hook (#15050)
• pre_approval_request + post_approval_response hooks (#16776)
• duration_ms on post_tool_call (inspired by Claude Code 2.1.119) (#15429)
• Bundled plugins: Spotify (#15174), Google Meet (#16364), Langfuse observability (#16917), hermes-achievements (#17754)
• Page-scoped plugin slots for built-in dashboard pages (#15658)
• Declarative plugin installation for NixOS module (@alt-glitch) (#15953)

Browser

• CDP supervisor — dialog detection + response + cross-origin iframe eval (#14540)
• Auto-spawn local Chromium for LAN/localhost URLs when cloud provider is configured (#16136)

Execute code / Terminal

• Vercel Sandbox backend for execute_code / terminal (@kshitijk4poor) (#17445)
• Collapse subagent task_ids to shared container (#16177)
• Docker: run container as host user to avoid root-owned bind mounts (@benbarclay) (#17305)
• Fix: safely quote ~/ subpaths in wrapped cd commands (#15394)
• Fix: close file descriptor in LocalEnvironment._update_cwd (#17300)
• Fix: SSH — prevent tar from overwriting remote home dir permissions (#17898, #17867)

Image generation

• See Provider section for updates; no new image providers this window.

TTS / Voice

• Pluggable TTS provider registry under tts.providers.<name> (#17843)
• Piper as native local TTS provider (closes #8508) (#17885)
• Voice mode CLI parity in the TUI — VAD loop + TTS + crash forensics (#14810)
• Fix: vision — use HERMES_HOME-based cache dir instead of cwd (#17719)

Cron

• Honor hermes tools config for the cron platform (#14798)
• Per-job workdir — project-aware cron runs (#15110)
• context_from field — chain cron job outputs (#15606)
• Fix: promote croniter to a core dependency (#17577)

Web search

• Expose limit for web_search (#16934)

Maps

• Fix: include seconds in timezone UTC offset output (#16300)

Approvals

• Hardline blocklist for unrecoverable commands (#15878)
• Perf: precompile DANGEROUS_PATTERNS and HARDLINE_PATTERNS (#17206)

ACP

• Advertise and forward image prompts (#18030)

API Server

• POST /v1/runs/{run_id}/stop (salvage of #15656) (#15842)
• Expose run status for external UIs (#17085) (#17458)

Nix

• Declarative plugin installation for NixOS module (@alt-glitch) (#15953)
• Fix: use --rebuild in fix-lockfiles to bypass cached FOD store paths (#15444)
• Fix: extraPackages now actually works via per-user profile (#17047)
• Fix: refresh web/ npm-deps hash to unblock main builds (#17174)
• Fix: replace magic-nix-cache with Cachix (#17928)

🖥️ TUI

New features

• LaTeX rendering (@austinpickett) (#17175)
• /reload .env hot-reload — ported from the classic CLI (#17286)
• Pluggable busy-indicator styles (@OutThisLife, #13610) (#17150)
• Opt-in auto-resume of the most recent session (@OutThisLife) (#17130)
• Expanded light-terminal auto-detection — HERMES_TUI_THEME + background hex (@OutThisLife) (#17113)
• Delete sessions from /resume picker with d (@OutThisLife) (#17668)
• Line-by-line scroll on modified mouse wheel (@OutThisLife) (#17669)
• Delete queued message while editing with ctrl-x / cancel with esc (@OutThisLife) (#16707)
• Per-section visibility for the details accordion (@OutThisLife) (#14968)
• Voice mode CLI parity — VAD loop + TTS + crash forensics (#14810)
• Contextual first-touch hints ported to TUI — /busy, /verbose (#16054)
• Mini help menu on ? in the input field (@ethernet8023) (#18043)

Fixes

• Fix: proactive mouse disable on ConPTY + /mouse toggle command (@kevin-ho, WSL2 ghost-mouse fix) (#15488)
• Fix: restore skills search RPC (#15870)
• Perf: cache text measurements across yoga flex re-passes (#14818)
• Perf: stabilize long-session scrolling (#15926)
• Perf: lazily seed virtual history heights (#16523)
• Perf: cut visible cold start ~57% with lazy agent init (#17190)

🖱️ CLI & User Experience

New commands

• hermes -z <prompt> — non-interactive one-shot mode (#15702)
• hermes -z with --model / --provider / HERMES_INFERENCE_MODEL (#15704)
• hermes update --check preflight flag (#15841)
• hermes fallback command for managing fallback providers (#16052)
• /busy slash command for busy input mode (#15382)
• /busy input mode 'steer' as a third option (#16279)
• /btw as alias for /background (#16053)
• /reload-skills slash command (salvage #17670) (#17744)
• Surface /queue, /bg, /steer in agent-running placeholder (#16118)

Setup / onboarding

• Auto-reconfigure on existing installs (#15879)
• Contextual first-touch hints for /busy and /verbose (#16046)
• Cost-saving tips from the April 30 tip-of-the-day (#17841)
• Hyperlink startup banner title to the latest GitHub Release (#14945)

Update / backup

• Snapshot pairing data before git pull (#16383)
• Auto-backup HERMES_HOME before hermes update (opt-in, off by default) (#16539, #16566)
• Exclude checkpoints/ from backups (#16572)
• Exclude SQLite WAL/SHM/journal sidecars from backups (#16576)
• Installer FHS layout for root installs on Linux (#15608)
• Fix: kill stale dashboards instead of warning (#17832)
• Fix: show correct update status on nix-built hermes (#17550)

Slash-command housekeeping

• Refactor: drop /provider, /plan handler, and clean up slash registry (#15047)
• Refactor: drop persist_session plumbing + fix broken /btw mid-turn bypass (#16075)

OpenClaw migration (for folks coming from OpenClaw)

• Hardened OpenClaw import — plan-first apply, redaction, pre-migration backup (#16911)
• Fix: case-preserving brand rewrite + one-time ~/.openclaw residue banner (#16327)
• Fix: resolve openclaw workspace files from agents.defaults.workspace (#16879)
• Fix: resolve model aliases against real OpenClaw catalog schema (salvage #16778) (#16977)

📊 Web Dashboard

• Models tab — rich per-model analytics (#17745)
• Configure main + auxiliary models from the Models page (#17802)
• Dashboard Chat tab — xterm.js + JSON-RPC sidecar (supersedes #12710 + #13379, @OutThisLife) (#14890)
• Dashboard layout refresh (@austinpickett) (#14899)
• --stop and --status flags on the dashboard CLI (#17840)
• Page-scoped plugin slots for built-in pages (#15658)
• Fix: replace all buttons for design system buttons (#17007)

⚡ Performance

• TUI visible cold start cut ~57% via lazy agent init (#17190)
• Lazy-import OpenAI, Anthropic, Firecrawl, account_usage (#17046)
• mtime-cache load_config() and read_raw_config() (#17041)
• Memoize get_tool_definitions() + TTL-cache check_fn results (#17098)
• Precompile DANGEROUS_PATTERNS and HARDLINE_PATTERNS (#17206)
• Cache Ink text measurements across yoga flex re-passes (#14818)
• Stabilize long-session scrolling (#15926)
• Lazily seed virtual history heights (#16523)

🔒 Security & Reliability

• Secret redaction off by default — stops corrupting patches / API payloads with fake-key substitutions. Opt in via redaction.enabled: true (#16794)
• [SYSTEM: → [IMPORTANT: in all user-injected markers (Azure content filter dodge) (#16114)
• Hardline blocklist for unrecoverable commands (#15878)
• Canonical mask_secret helper; fix status.py DIM drift (#17207)
• Sweep expired paste.rs uploads on a real timer (#16431)
• Preserve symlinks during atomic file writes (#16980)
• Probe /dev/tty by opening it, not bare existence (#17024)

🐛 Notable Bug Fixes

This window includes 360 fix: PRs. Selected highlights from across the stack:

• Background review fork inherits parent's live runtime — provider/model/creds now propagate correctly (#16099)
• Hindsight configurable HINDSIGHT_TIMEOUT env var (#15077)
• Tools: normalize numeric entries + clear stale no_mcp in _save_platform_tools (#15607)
• MCP: rewrite definitions refs to $defs in input schemas — closes provider-side 400s
• Azure content filter compatibility — renamed [SYSTEM: markers so Azure's content filter stops flagging them (#16114)
• Vision cache uses HERMES_HOME instead of cwd (#17719)
• FTS5 search — tool_name + tool_calls indexing with repair + migration (#16914)
• Streaming reasoning persists on assistant turns (#16892)
• execute_code concurrent RPC serialization (#17770) (#17894, #17902)
• Background reviewer scoped to memory + skills toolsets — no more accidental web/shell escapes (#16569)
• Compression recovery — retry on main before giving up; notify user when aux fails (#16774, #16775)
• croniter promoted to a core dependency (#17577)
• Discord tool limit parameter coerced to int before min() call (#16319)
• Yuanbao messaging platform entrance fix (#16880)
• ACP advertise and forward image prompts (#18030)
• DeepSeek / Kimi reasoning content isolation across cross-provider histories (@Zjianru) (#15749, #15762)
• Preserve reasoning_content replay on DeepSeek v4 + Kimi/Moonshot thinking (#18045)

The vast majority of the 360 fixes landed in the streaming/compression/tool-calling paths across all providers — DeepSeek, Kimi, Moonshot, GLM, Qwen, MiniMax, Gemini, Anthropic, OpenAI — alongside TUI polish (resize, scroll, sticky-prompt) and gateway platform-specific edge cases.

🧪 Testing & CI

• Hermetic test parity (scripts/run_tests.sh) held across this window
• Microsoft Teams xdist collision guard — prevents worker collisions when Teams platform tests run in parallel (#17828)
• Chore: remove unused imports and dead locals (ruff F401, F841) (#17010)

📚 Documentation

• Curator feature page added to docs site (#17563)
• Document pin also blocking skill_manage writes (#17578)
• Direct-URL skill install documented across features, reference, guide, and hermes-agent skill (#16355)
• Hooks tutorial — build a BOOT.md startup checklist (replaces the removed built-in hook) (#17202)
• ComfyUI docs: ask local vs cloud FIRST before hardware check (#17612)
• Obliteratus skill: link YouTube video guide in SKILL.md (#15808)
• Per-skill docs pages generated for bundled + optional skills; ASCII art code blocks auto-wrapped (#14929, #16497)

⚖️ Removed / Reverted

• Kanban multi-profile collaboration board — landed in #16081, reverted in (#16098) while the design is reworked
• computer-use cua-driver — 3 preparatory PRs landed then were reverted in (#16927)
• BOOT.md built-in hook removed (#17093); the hooks tutorial (#17202) shows how to build the same workflow yourself with a shell hook
• /provider + /plan slash commands dropped (#15047)
• flush_memories removed entirely (#15696)

👥 Contributors

Core

• @teknium1 (Teknium)

Top Community Contributors (by merged PR count since v0.11.0)

• @OutThisLife (Brooklyn) — 52 PRs · TUI — light-terminal detection + pluggable busy styles + auto-resume + session-delete from /resume + mouse-wheel scrolling + xterm.js dashboard Chat tab + cold-start cut + accordion polish
• @kshitijk4poor — 12 PRs · LM Studio first-class provider (salvage), Vercel Sandbox backend, GMI Cloud salvage, bundled-by-default touchdesigner-mcp, many tool-call / reasoning fixes
• @helix4u — 10 PRs · MCP schema robustness, assorted stability fixes
• @alt-glitch — 8 PRs · trigram FTS5 CJK search, declarative Nix plugin install, matrix/feishu hints and fixes
• @ethernet8023 — 4 PRs
• @austinpickett — 4 PRs · LaTeX rendering in TUI, dashboard layout refresh
• @benbarclay — 3 PRs · Docker run-as-host-user so bind mounts don't get root-owned
• @vominh1919 — 2 PRs
• @stephenschoettler — 2 PRs
• @kevin-ho — ConPTY mouse-injection fix (#15488)
• @Zjianru — cross-provider reasoning_content isolation + DeepSeek/Kimi empty-reasoning injection (#15749, #15762)
• @web3blind — Telegram chat allowlists for groups and forums (#15027)
• @SHL0MS — 9 new TouchDesigner-MCP reference docs (#16768)
• @0xDevNinja — curator restore_skill nested-archive fix (#17951)
• @y0shua1ee — curator use activity fix (#17953)

Also contributing

Salvaged or co-authored work from @isaachuangGMICLOUD (GMI Cloud), earlier upstream PRs from the original author of each salvage chain, and a long tail of one-shot fixes, documentation nudges, and skill contributions from the community.

All Contributors (alphabetical, excluding @teknium1)

@0xbyt4, @0xharryriddle, @0xDevNinja, @0z1-ghb, @5park1e, @A-FdL-Prog, @aj-nt, @akhater, @alblez, @alexg0bot,
@alexzhu0, @AllardQuek, @alt-glitch, @amanning3390, @amanuel2, @AndreKurait, @andrewhosf, @Andy283, @andyylin,
@angel12, @AntAISecurityLab, @ash, @austinpickett, @badgerbees, @BadTechBandit, @Bartok9, @beenherebefore,
@beesrsj2500, @BeliefanX, @benbarclay, @benjaminsehl, @BlackishGreen33, @bloodcarter, @BlueBirdBack,
@briandevans, @brooklynnicholson, @bsgdigital, @buray, @bwjoke, @camaragon, @cdanis, @cgarwood82,
@charles-brooks, @chen1749144759, @chengoak, @ching-kaching, @Contentment003111, @crayfish-ai, @CruxExperts,
@cyclingwithelephants, @dandaka, @danklynn, @ddupont808, @dhabibi, @difujia, @dimitrovi, @dlkakbs,
@dontcallmejames, @EKKOLearnAI, @emozilla, @ericnicolaides, @Erosika, @ethernet8023, @exiao, @Feranmi10,
@flobo3, @foxion37, @georgeglessner, @georgex8001, @ghostmfr, @H-Ali13381, @HangGlidersRule, @harryplusplus,
@haru398801, @heathley, @hejuntt1014, @hekaru-agent, @helix4u, @Heltman, @HenkDz, @heyitsaamir, @hharry11,
@hhhonzik, @hhuang91, @HiddenPuppy, @htsh, @iamagenius00, @in-liberty420, @innocarpe, @irispillars, @iRonin,
@isaachuangGMICLOUD, @Ito-69, @j3ffffff, @jackjin1997, @jakubkrcmar, @Jason2031, @JayGwod, @jerome-benoit,
@johnncenae, @Kailigithub, @keiravoss94, @kevin-ho, @knockyai, @konsisumer, @kshitijk4poor, @kunlabs, @l0hde,
@Leihb, @leoneparise, @LeonSGP43, @liizfq, @liuhao1024, @loongzhao, @lsdsjy, @luyao618, @ma-pony, @Magaav,
@MagicRay1217, @math0r-be, @MattMaximo, @maxims-oss, @MaxyMoos, @maymuneth, @mcndjxlefnd, @memosr,
@MestreY0d4-Uninter, @mewwts, @Mirac1eSky, @MorAlekss, @mrhwick, @mrunmayee17, @mssteuer, @Nanako0129,
@nazirulhafiy, @Nerijusas, @Nicecsh, @nicoloboschi, @nightq, @ningfangbin, @octo-patch, @Octopus,
@OutThisLife, @Paperclip, @pein892, @perlowja, @prasadus92, @qike-ms, @qiyin-code, @Readon, @ReginaldasR,
@revaraver, @rfilgueiras, @rmoen, @romanornr, @rugvedS07, @rylena, @samrusani, @Sanjays2402, @sasha-id,
@Satoshi-agi, @scheidti, @scotttrinh, @season179, @SeeYangZhi, @sgaofen, @shamork, @shannonsands, @SHL0MS,
@simbam99, @Societus, @socrates1024, @Sonoyunchu, @sprmn24, @stephenschoettler, @tangyuanjc, @TechPrototyper,
@tekgnosis-net, @ThomassJonax, @tmimmanuel, @tochukwuada, @Tosko4, @Tranquil-Flow, @twozle, @txbxxx,
@UgwujaGeorge, @Versun, @vlwkaos, @voidborne-d, @vominh1919, @Wang-tianhao, @Wangshengyang2004, @web3blind,
@westers, @Wysie, @xandersbell, @xiahu88988, @XieNBi, @xinbenlv, @xnbi, @y0shua1ee, @yatesjalex, @yes999zc,
@yeyitech, @Yoimex, @YueLich, @Yukipukii1, @zhiyanliu, @zicochaos, @Zjianru, @zkl2333, @zons-zhaozhy,
@ztexydt-cqh.

Also: @Siddharth Balyan, @YuShu.

Full Changelog: v2026.4.23...v2026.4.30