When we covered Hermes Agent as OpenClaw’s first serious rival, the single-agent limitation was the most consistent criticism. OpenClaw runs multi-agent teams, while Hermes could run just one. For team workflows, that gap was disqualifying.
v0.6.0 closes it.
Profiles let you run multiple isolated Hermes instances from a single installation. Each profile gets its own config, memory, sessions, skills, and gateway service. Token locks prevent credential collisions between profiles.
- Create:
hermes profile create - Switch:
hermes -p <name> - Export/import: for sharing profiles across machines
That is the headline. The rest of the release is substantial on its own.
MCP Server Mode is the second major addition. Running hermes mcp serve exposes Hermes conversations and sessions to any MCP-compatible client — Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, and others. Both stdio and Streamable HTTP transports are supported.
Other additions:
- Official Docker container: CLI and gateway modes with volume-mounted config.
- Fallback provider chain: Automatic failover when your primary inference provider goes down.
- Feishu and WeCom: Two new messaging platforms for Chinese enterprise users.
- Slack multi-workspace: One gateway, multiple Slack workspaces via OAuth token file.
- Telegram webhook mode: Faster production deployments without polling.
- Exa search backend: Alternative to Firecrawl and DuckDuckGo.
The OpenClaw migration guide also got a full expansion covering sessions, cron, and memory.
Hermes is at 18,200 GitHub stars. This release shipped 95 PRs in two days.
Source: GitHub / Nous Research
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