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Hermes Agent really did ship v0.22.3, v0.22.4 and v0.22.5 in 41 hours and the ~620 PR figure checks out, but the OpenClaw importer is an old core feature spun out into a plugin and cheap-model subagents shipped by August 2026

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A 30.016 s MP4 (QuickTime/MOV container, 576x1024 portrait, H.264 High profile level 3.1 at a constant 30/1 frame rate, 900 video frames, 221,693 bps video, HE-AACv2 audio at 44,100 Hz stereo and 32,181 bps, 260,471 bps overall, 977,289 bytes on disk, which matches the filesize field in metadata.json exactly), posted at epoch 1792935901, which is 2026-10-25 13:45:01 UTC, by future.with.ai98 under the display name "Future Ai With Julian", carrying the original-sound credit "original sound - Future Ai With Julian" with the same account as the sole listed artist, a 320-character description ending in the hashtags #HermesAgent #NousResearch #AIAgents #OpenSource #AIAutomation, and engagement of 2,624 views, 84 likes, 0 comments and 18 reposts as captured in metadata.json at 2026-10-26 05:06:38 UTC. I read all fifteen extracted frames (frame_001 through frame_015, spaced 2 s apart so frame_NNN sits at roughly (NNN-1)x2 seconds) and then re-extracted the 4 s to 11 s window at 2 fps because the first numbered segment looked like it jumped, reading gap_005 (about 6.0 s), gap_007 (about 7.0 s) and gap_009 (about 8.0 s) from that denser pass. The transcript holds 14 segments and 109 words, of which 84 words across the first 10 segments are genuine. The video is pure motion typography over two screen recordings: frame_001 (0 s) shows "3 UPDATES · 2 DAYS" above the Hermes Agent app icon, a black-haired anime-style avatar; frame_002 (2 s) wipes a large red "V0.22.5" stamp across the screen behind it; frame_003 (4 s) is a browser mock captioned "github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent" in the tab chrome reading "hermes-agent · releases", showing "Hermes Agent v0.22.5" with a green "Latest" pill, "teknium1 released this 2 days ago", tag "v0.22.5", commit "bf0203a", a body line "Release Date: October 22, 2026" and the blockquote "Patch release. This tag rolls up the 81 PRs merged since v0.22.4 into a stable release for the GitHub release (CLI and installers), the Microsoft Store app, Docker and Hermes Cloud. Full curated notes for this window ship with v0.23.0."; the denser pass shows segment one is a word-swap animation under a card reading "1 IMPORT FROM OPENCLAW", where the word "Redo" (gap_005) gets struck through (gap_007, frame_004) and replaced by "Import" (gap_009), all over the subtitle "moving from OpenClaw"; frames 005 through 007 (8 s to 12 s) build the card "RIGHT JOB, RIGHT MODEL" with two stacked chips, "Route sub-agents by model" and "Easy jobs → cheaper models"; frame_008 (14 s) is captioned "3 ONE-CLICK PLUGINS" over a second browser mock of the repo root at "github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent" showing "Public", "Fork 56.2k", "Star 257k", the About blurb "The agent that grows with you", the topic chips ai, ai-agent, ai-agents, anthropic, chatgpt, claude, claude-code, codex, hermes, hermes-agent, llm, nous-research, openai, an MIT license line, a latest commit by teknium1 at 4eab823 "2 hours ago", and directories .github, acp_adapter, agent, apps, assets, contributors, cron, docker and evals; frames 010 and 011 (18 s to 20 s) show a third mock captioned "Cua Spaces plugin" at "github.com/trycua/hermes-cua-spaces" with "Fork 5", "Star 33", "33 stars", "0 watching", "5 forks", "Releases 3" with "v0.4.0 Latest yesterday", a contributor list of "claude Claude", "ddupont808 ddupont" and "f-trycua Francesco Bonacci", and a README heading "Hermes on Cua Spaces" with the line "Run Hermes Agent's terminal, file and code tools inside a Cua Space: an"; frames 012 and 013 (22 s to 24 s) are a count-up card that passes "320 PRs merged into v0.22.3" and settles on "~620 PRs merged into v0.22.3"; frames 014 and 015 (26 s to 28 s) are a "LINK IN MY BIO" call to action with a mock composer reading "Tap my profile" and a card "FREE AI TRAINING / Link in my bio". No terminal, no Hermes CLI session, no desktop app window and no running importer appears in any frame I read: every feature claim is carried by a word-swap animation or a static GitHub page, never by a demonstration. The spoken argument is that Hermes Agent shipped three releases in two days, that the three things worth knowing are an OpenClaw importer, per-model subagent routing and one-click desktop plugin installs, that the week's biggest item is a Cua Spaces plugin giving Hermes "its own computer", and that over 600 pull requests went into one release. Whisper's transcript runs past the end of the audio: audio.mp3 is 30.067 s and the video stream is 30.000 s, but segments 12 through 14 are timestamped 31.96 s to 57.46 s ("3. Your mastering being exponentially 11.", "And the upgrade of key controls is built into the end.", "3. Your start will arrive even in"), which is wholly beyond any audio that exists, so those 25 words are fabricated and I quote none of them; segment 11 ("Yeah." at 30.0 s to 30.88 s) begins 0.067 s before the audio ends and runs past it, which is the borderline case, and I do not rely on it either. Whisper also mangled the product name, rendering "Cua" as "Kua" in segment 8; the burned-in caption in frames 010 and 011 reads "Cua Spaces plugin" and the creator's own description spells it "Cua Spaces", so the spoken-word spelling is the error.

The release cadence is real: three tags in 41 hours, but two of them landed on the same day

At 0.00 s the video says "Hermes agent just shipped three updates in two days." The GitHub releases API for NousResearch/hermes-agent gives exact publication timestamps for the three tags in question: v0.22.3 published 2026-10-21T12:21:11Z, v0.22.4 published 2026-10-21T18:49:24Z, and v0.22.5 published 2026-10-23T05:28:45Z. The elapsed span from the first to the last is 41 hours and 7 minutes, so "two days" is a fair description of the window.

The framing is looser than it sounds, though. Two of the three releases went out on the same calendar day, Oct 21, six and a half hours apart, and v0.22.4 is a small one: its own notes say the window since v0.22.3 contains "14 non-merge commits across 82 changed files (+1,475 / -3,022) and 13 merged PRs". Calling that a third "update" alongside v0.22.3 is technically correct and practically generous.

One date discrepancy is worth flagging because the video puts it on screen. Frame_003 shows the v0.22.5 body line "Release Date: October 22, 2026", while the API records published_at as 2026-10-23T05:28:45Z. The release note's hand-written date and the actual tag publication differ by a day, almost certainly a local-time versus UTC gap on the author's side. The video reproduces the screenshot without noticing. The same frame reads "teknium1 released this 2 days ago", which places the creator's screen capture around Oct 25, consistent with the Oct 25 post.

The "over 600 pull requests" figure is correct, and the video attributes it to the right release

At 22.32 s the video says "Over 600 pull requests went into just one of these releases." This is the claim most likely to be invented, and it is not. The v0.22.3 release body reads: "This tag rolls up the ~620 PRs merged since v0.22.2 into a stable release for the CLI and installer, the Microsoft Store app, Docker and Hermes Cloud." Its "About this release" section is more precise: "Measured at commit 5b147ab036d, the window since v0.22.2 contains 2,911 non-merge commits across 4,206 changed files (+360,278 / -64,308), about 620 merged PRs and 326 closed issues."

The on-screen card is also correctly labelled. Frame_013 reads "620 PRs merged into v0.22.3", which is the exact number and the exact tag from the release notes. Frame_012 showing "320" is the midpoint of a count-up animation, not a second claim.

The one thing a viewer could get wrong is which release they are looking at. The only release page the video shows is v0.22.5 (frame_003), whose own text says it rolls up "~81 PRs merged since v0.22.4", confirmed in the release body as "231 non-merge commits across 804 changed files (+35,212 / -17,885), 81 merged PRs and 30 closed issues". The ~620 figure belongs to v0.22.3 and the screenshot belongs to v0.22.5. The video never puts the two on screen together, so the association is left to the viewer.

Correction: the OpenClaw importer is not new. It was built into Hermes core and moved out into a plugin in this window

At 5.30 s the video says "Moving over from OpenClaw? There's an importer now." The word "now" is the problem. The official plugin catalog entry at plugin-catalog/agent-importers.yaml in the hermes-agent repo states plainly that the OpenClaw path is "core's former hermes claw migrate; the plugin keeps that spelling, hermes claw cleanup and the openclaw-migration skill", and adds in the same entry: "Formerly built into Hermes core". The migration guide at website/docs/guides/migrate-from-openclaw.md says the same thing from the user's side: "The older spelling hermes claw migrate still works once the plugin is installed and runs the same import."

So the change in this window is architectural, not a new capability. OpenClaw migration left core and became an installable plugin. The v0.22.5 release body lists it that way, among the items "undocumented here on purpose": "hermes import-agent, OpenClaw migration, hermes mcp serve and the Singularity backend moving out of core into plugins (setup offers the importer when it finds another agent)."

Two further details the video omits change what a viewer should expect. First, the importer is no longer available by default: the migration guide's quick start opens with hermes plugins install agent-importers, and the catalog entry sets requires_hermes: ">=0.21.6", so it predates this release window entirely. Second, it is not OpenClaw-specific. The catalog description reads: "import an OpenClaw (/.openclaw, or legacy ~/.clawdbot / ~/.moltbot), Claude Code (/.claude), Codex CLI (/.codex) or Cursor (/.cursor) setup into Hermes in one command". The v0.22.4 notes record the Cursor source arriving in that release: "agent-importers (hermes import-agent, now with Cursor)". A viewer told only about OpenClaw would miss three of the four supported sources.

The frames add nothing here beyond the word swap. The denser 2 fps pass over 4 s to 11 s shows only "Redo" struck through and replaced by "Import" under the subtitle "moving from OpenClaw". No command, no preview output, no migration report.

Partial correction: subagents on cheaper models shipped by August 2026. What v0.22.5 adds is per-task routing, and it needs a separate plugin

At 8.70 s the video says "2. Your sub-agents can run on different models", and at 11.64 s "Send the easy jobs to cheaper models." Frames 006 and 007 reinforce this with the chips "Route sub-agents by model" and "Easy jobs → cheaper models". Presented as one of three things that shipped in two days, this is misleading.

The ability to put subagents on a cheaper model is old. I fetched website/docs/user-guide/features/delegation.md at tag v2026.8.31 (the v0.21.0 release, published 2026-08-31) and it already contains a "Model Override" section reading "You can configure a different model for subagents via config.yaml -- useful for delegating simple tasks to cheaper/faster models", with the example key delegation.model commented "Cheaper model for subagents". The same file's commit history goes back to 2026-03-05, and a commit on 2026-03-15 reads "feat: add direct endpoint overrides for auxiliary and delegation". The cheap-worker strategy is documented in the current version under the heading "Cost strategy: frontier planner, inexpensive workers".

What is genuinely new is finer-grained. The v0.22.5 notes list "pluggable delegation backends (route subagents by model map or profile, switchable per session)", and the first commits to agent/delegation_backends.py are dated 2026-10-22, starting with "feat(delegation): a session can switch its delegation backend" at 2026-10-22T15:08:43Z. The current docs explain why that matters: under the default strategy, "the pin is global: with the default strategy delegate_task has no per-task model parameter, so every child in a batch runs on the configured delegation model."

The catch the video does not mention is that this routing is not in Hermes itself. The docs say both strategies "come from the official advanced-delegation plugin", and that plugin's catalog entry states: "Needs Hermes 0.22.5 or newer, the first release with pluggable delegation providers; Hermes 0.22.0 to 0.22.4 refuses to install it". The plugin was added to the catalog on 2026-10-22T22:11:22Z, hours after the backend code landed. A viewer who updates Hermes and looks for per-task model routing in the app will not find it until they also install a plugin.

One-click plugin installs are verifiable down to the pull request, but v0.22.5 does not deliver them to installer-based desktop users

At 13.62 s the video says "3. One-click plugin installs in the desktop app." This one holds up on the code. PR #142708, titled "feat(desktop): install with +, switch once installed; tier badges on the install dialog", was merged at 2026-10-22T15:28:08Z by austinpickett, touching 26 files with 213 additions and 107 deletions. The v0.22.5 release body lists the result among the window's undocumented items: "Desktop drag-to-pin in the sidebar and one-click plugin installs with tier badges."

The qualification is in the same release note, four lines further down. The v0.22.5 "Updating" section reads: "Desktop app installed from the installer (.exe / .dmg): no change in this release; it updates with the next bundled release." The Microsoft Store app updates through the Store, and the CLI, Docker and Hermes Cloud all get the tag, but anyone who installed the desktop app from a .dmg or .exe gets nothing from v0.22.5 and waits for the next bundled release. The video presents the feature as shipped to desktop users in this window. The release it shows on screen says otherwise for the largest group of them.

Frame_008, the frame carrying the "3 ONE-CLICK PLUGINS" caption, shows the GitHub repository file listing, not the desktop app. There is no screenshot of the install dialog, the plus button or the tier badges anywhere in the video.

Correction: the Cua Spaces plugin does not give Hermes its own computer, and it is a third-party plugin from Oct 20, not Nous news from this week

At 16.88 s the video says "And the biggest news this week?" and at 18.68 s "Hermes can get its own computer with the new Kua Spaces plugin." Three separate things need fixing here.

The spelling first. Whisper rendered it "Kua"; the correct name is Cua. The company is Cua AI, Inc., its GitHub organisation is trycua and its site is cua.ai. The video's own burned-in captions in frames 010 and 011 read "Cua Spaces plugin" and "github.com/trycua/hermes-cua-spaces", and the creator's description spells it "Cua Spaces", so only the transcript is wrong.

The capability claim is the real correction. The plugin's README, which the video partially shows in frame_011, says the opposite of "Hermes can get its own computer": "Hermes still runs where it runs today. When it needs to run a command, write a file or execute code, that work happens in the Space instead of on your computer." The catalog entry in the hermes-agent repo describes it as a terminal backend, enabled with hermes config set terminal.backend cua. What moves into the Space is the tool surface, meaning terminal, file reads and writes, code execution, and on Hermes 0.22.3 and later also Bot Desktop, computer_use and the browser. The agent itself does not relocate. The practical consequence the README calls out is sandboxing, not autonomy: "Because the Space is the sandbox, Hermes skips its risky-command prompts for Spaces this plugin creates." A Cua Space is, in Cua's own words on cua.ai/spaces, "a full desktop for your agents: a virtual machine or container they can use and you can watch", running on Apple silicon Macs, Linux containers via Docker or Podman, or Windows in preview.

The "biggest news this week" framing is the third issue. The repository trycua/hermes-cua-spaces was created on 2026-10-20T05:40:42Z. Its three releases are v0.2.0 on 2026-10-20T17:24:38Z, v0.3.0 on 2026-10-21T15:26:31Z and v0.4.0 on 2026-10-21T18:56:16Z, and the repo has not been pushed to since that last release. By the Oct 25 post date, the newest release was four days old. It is also not a Nous Research product. The catalog entry at plugin-catalog/cua-spaces.yaml sets maintainer: trycua and tier: verified, a notch below the tier: official carried by agent-importers and advanced-delegation, and its first catalog commit, "plugin-catalog: add cua-spaces (Cua's terminal backend), verified tier", is dated 2026-10-20T17:08:28Z. The description opens "Cua's own plugin".

The scale shown on screen is small and already stale. Frame_010 reads "Star 33", "5 forks", "0 watching"; when I checked the API the repo had 66 stars and 9 forks, so it roughly doubled between the creator's capture and my check. The contributors panel in frame_011 lists three names, but the GitHub contributors API returns only two accounts with commits, f-trycua (2) and ddupont808 (2). The third name in the panel is "claude", an AI co-author credited on commits, which frame_010 shows directly in the latest-commit byline "ddupont808 and claude". A plugin two humans and a co-authoring model built in two days, sitting at 33 stars, is an interesting release. Calling it the biggest news of the week in a video otherwise about a 257,000-star repository is an editorial choice, not a measurement.

Key Takeaways

  • Verified: Three Hermes Agent releases published inside 41 hours. v0.22.3 at 2026-10-21T12:21:11Z, v0.22.4 at 2026-10-21T18:49:24Z, v0.22.5 at 2026-10-23T05:28:45Z, all tagged on NousResearch/hermes-agent.
  • Verified: The "over 600 pull requests" claim at 22.32 s and the on-screen card "~620 PRs merged into v0.22.3" both match the v0.22.3 release body, which states "about 620 merged PRs" across 2,911 non-merge commits and 4,206 changed files.
  • Verified: One-click plugin installs with tier badges are real and dated. PR #142708 merged at 2026-10-22T15:28:08Z, 26 files changed, and the v0.22.5 notes list the feature.
  • Verified: The repository scale the video shows is accurate. The API returns 257,220 stars and 56,346 forks against the frame's "Star 257k" and "Fork 56.2k".
  • Correction: The video says at 5.30 s "there's an importer now." The importer is not new. The agent-importers catalog entry says the OpenClaw path is "core's former hermes claw migrate" and was "Formerly built into Hermes core"; the plugin requires only Hermes 0.21.6 or newer. What happened in this window is that it moved out of core into an installable plugin.
  • Correction: The video says the importer is for OpenClaw. The catalog entry says it imports OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex CLI and Cursor setups, with Cursor added in v0.22.4.
  • Correction: At 18.68 s the video says Hermes "can get its own computer". The plugin README says "Hermes still runs where it runs today" and only its terminal, file and code tools execute inside the Cua Space. It is a terminal backend, set with hermes config set terminal.backend cua.
  • Correction: Whisper rendered the product as "Kua Spaces". The company is Cua AI, Inc., the GitHub org is trycua, and the video's own burned-in captions read "Cua Spaces plugin".
  • Partial correction: At 11.64 s the video presents "send the easy jobs to cheaper models" as part of this week's shipping. The delegation.model override with the comment "Cheaper model for subagents" is present in the delegation docs at tag v2026.8.31, published 2026-08-31. New in v0.22.5 is per-task routing via model maps and profile routes.
  • Clarification: That per-task routing is not in Hermes core. The docs say it comes from the advanced-delegation plugin, whose catalog entry states "Hermes 0.22.0 to 0.22.4 refuses to install it" and which was added to the catalog at 2026-10-22T22:11:22Z.
  • Clarification: v0.22.5 does not deliver the one-click plugin installs to every desktop user. Its own Updating section reads "Desktop app installed from the installer (.exe / .dmg): no change in this release; it updates with the next bundled release."
  • Clarification: The only release page shown on screen is v0.22.5, whose body says "~81 PRs merged since v0.22.4". The ~620 figure belongs to v0.22.3. The two are never shown together.
  • Context: The Cua Spaces plugin is third-party, created 2026-10-20, with its newest release v0.4.0 dated 2026-10-21T18:56:16Z, four days before the video posted. Its catalog entry sets maintainer: trycua and tier: verified, against tier: official for the two Nous-maintained plugins in the same window. The frame shows 33 stars and 5 forks; the API returned 66 stars and 9 forks at my check, and of the three contributors listed in frame_011 only two are human accounts with commits, the third being the AI co-author "claude".
  • Context: Frame_003 displays "Release Date: October 22, 2026" while the API records publication at 2026-10-23T05:28:45Z. The release note's hand-written date and the tag timestamp disagree by a day.
  • Unverified: The video shows no running software. No terminal, CLI session, desktop app window or importer run appears in any of the fifteen 2 s frames or the three denser 2 fps frames I read. Every feature claim rests on a word-swap animation or a static GitHub page.
  • Context: Whisper's transcript fabricates its tail. audio.mp3 is 30.067 s and the video stream is 30.000 s, but segments 12 through 14 are timestamped 31.96 s to 57.46 s. Those 25 words are invented and quoted nowhere in this document.

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Published October 25, 2026. Writeup generated from a favorited TikTok.