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Jun 23, 2026 68 leads scanned 7 sources
A tiny anti-slop zine for agents, tools, model ops, and actually useful AI weirdness. No X API toll paid.

Editor picks

Thinking, experiments, papers, and opinionated field notes first. Releases are useful, but they live downstairs now.
#01
r/hermesagent · reddit · Jun 23

Are you still enjoying hermes?

Editor's read

A Reddit field report/discussion from r/hermesagent. Plain version: I know this is a biased question for this subreddit, but I want to know that, after some months, if Hermes still lives up to the hype.

Why you might care

Directly relevant to your agent stack. This can affect Hermes behavior, upgrade timing, plugins, gateway surfaces, or ideas worth stealing for OAC/DestructoR666.

Source excerpt

I know this is a biased question for this subreddit, but I want to know that, after some months, if Hermes still lives up to the hype. Are you using hermes as a daily driver or, for some activities, do you predere codex/claude code? Amd why? submitted by /u/krysalydun [link] [comments]

reddithermesagentshermesagent
read74.8hermes, hermes, agents, claude code, codex
#02
r/hermesagent · reddit · Jun 23

promptfoo got acquired by OpenAI. Langfuse got acquired by ClickHouse. The LLM eval space is consolidating into giants.

Editor's read

A Reddit field report/discussion from r/hermesagent. A title-first lead about: promptfoo got acquired by OpenAI. Langfuse got acquired by ClickHouse. The LLM eval space is consolidating into giants.. Skim it only if that maps to current agent/tooling work. Treat it as user-signal and pain-report radar, not gospel.

Why you might care

Directly relevant to your agent stack. This can affect Hermes behavior, upgrade timing, plugins, gateway surfaces, or ideas worth stealing for OAC/DestructoR666.

Source excerpt

submitted by /u/outofnades [link] [comments]

reddithermesagentshermesagent
read71.9hermes, hermes, agent, agents, eval
#03
r/hermesagent · reddit · Jun 23

Has anyone created their own gateway?

Editor's read

A Reddit field report/discussion from r/hermesagent. Plain version: I’m seriously considering developing an internal use mobile first web app to communicate with Hermes from my phone.

Why you might care

Directly relevant to your agent stack. This can affect Hermes behavior, upgrade timing, plugins, gateway surfaces, or ideas worth stealing for OAC/DestructoR666.

Source excerpt

I’m seriously considering developing an internal use mobile first web app to communicate with Hermes from my phone. I want something specific to my business’ workflow and operations. If you have, how did you go about connecting it as the gateway via the Hermes setup or config? Any tips? I’d love to see screenshots. submitted by /u/StephenCroft [link] [comme…

reddithermesagentshermesagent
read68.0hermes, hermes, agents, workflow
#04
Hacker News · hn · Jun 22

Super AI Agentic Android App (BYOK)

Editor's read

A community-submitted project/thread. A title-first lead about: Super AI Agentic Android App (BYOK). Skim it only if that maps to current agent/tooling work. Treat it as an early smoke signal, not a verdict. HN: 2 points, 0 comments. Query: AI agents tool use.

Why you might care

HN is noisy, but comments surface implementation pain fast. Good for spotting whether a shiny thing survives contact with engineers.

Source excerpt

HN: 2 points, 0 comments. Query: AI agents tool use.

hnAI agents tool use
read50.5agent, agents, ai agent, tool use
#05
Hacker News · hn · Jun 22

Show HN: Selector Forge – browser extension for AI-generated resilient selectors

Editor's read

A community-submitted project/thread. Plain version: Browser extension to create reliable selectors (CSS and Xpath) using AI - Intuned/selector-forge

Why you might care

HN is noisy, but comments surface implementation pain fast. Good for spotting whether a shiny thing survives contact with engineers.

Source excerpt

Browser extension to create reliable selectors (CSS and Xpath) using AI - Intuned/selector-forge

hnAI agents tool usedeep-summary
read50.3agent, agents, ai agent, tool use

Articles / research / opinions

The stuff people are thinking, trying, arguing, and building with the tech. This is the main read pile.
#06
OpenAI News · feed · Jun 22

How Omio is building the future of conversational travel

Editor's read

A post from OpenAI News. Plain version: Discover how Omio uses OpenAI to power conversational travel experiences, accelerate product development, and transform into an AI-native company.

Why you might care

Kept because it matched the radar’s AI/agent/tooling filters. Skim title + source first; open only if it lines up with current Hermes/OAC work.

Source excerpt

Discover how Omio uses OpenAI to power conversational travel experiences, accelerate product development, and transform into an AI-native company.

openaimodelsagents
read45.0agents
#07
Hacker News · hn · Jun 23

Show HN: Aharness – Enforce coding-agent workflows as state machines on Codex

Editor's read

A community-submitted project/thread. Plain version: The workflow harness for Codex: typed gates, validated evidence, controlled transitions, repair paths, and inspectable logs for any workflow.

Why you might care

Codex is turning into OpenAI’s agentic workbench. Worth tracking for cloud dev-env patterns, long-running task ergonomics, and places Hermes can stay lighter/local.

Source excerpt

The workflow harness for Codex: typed gates, validated evidence, controlled transitions, repair paths, and inspectable logs for any workflow. - Alfredvc/aharness

hnClaude Code agentdeep-summary
read44.9workflow, claude code, codex
#08
arXiv · paper · Jun 22

Randomized YaRN Improves Length Generalization for Long-Context Reasoning

Editor's read

A research paper. In human terms: Large language models (LLMs) are typically pretrained on short sequences and then extended to work on longer sequences with additional training.

Why you might care

Evals are how we avoid vibes-only agent work. Useful if it suggests tests we can adapt for Hermes/OAC reliability.

Source excerpt

Large language models (LLMs) are typically pretrained on short sequences and then extended to work on longer sequences with additional training. However, such LLMs still struggle to further generalize to very long sequences. We propose Randomized YaRN, a training method that improves length generalization by combining YaRN-based positional extrapolation with randomized positional encoding and a length curriculum. Du…

paperLLM evaluation benchmark agentscs.CL
paper shelf38.6agent, agents, eval, benchmark
#09
arXiv · paper · Jun 22

Semantic Browsing: Controllable Diversity for Image Generation

Editor's read

A research paper. In human terms: Modern text-to-image models excel in visual fidelity and prompt adherence.

Why you might care

Evals are how we avoid vibes-only agent work. Useful if it suggests tests we can adapt for Hermes/OAC reliability.

Source excerpt

Modern text-to-image models excel in visual fidelity and prompt adherence. However, this strict adherence comes at the cost of diversity: generated samples tend to collapse into a single visual interpretation. Existing methods to improve diversity produce outputs driven by incidental variations rather than meaningful design choices. This motivates a new variant of the diversity task where structure is enforced on th…

paperLLM evaluation benchmark agentscs.CVcs.AI
paper shelf38.6agent, agents, eval, benchmark
#10
arXiv · paper · Jun 22

AIR: Adaptive Interleaved Reasoning with Code in MLLMs

Editor's read

A research paper. In human terms: Following the paradigm shift initiated by OpenAI o3, interleaved reasoning with code to enhance multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has become a pivotal research frontier.

Why you might care

Evals are how we avoid vibes-only agent work. Useful if it suggests tests we can adapt for Hermes/OAC reliability.

Source excerpt

Following the paradigm shift initiated by OpenAI o3, interleaved reasoning with code to enhance multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has become a pivotal research frontier. The existing literature focuses primarily on tool-use within vision-perception tasks. However, such approaches typically rely on predefined heuristics for visual manipulation and are inherently incapable of addressing numerical computation pr…

paperLLM evaluation benchmark agentscs.CVcs.AI
paper shelf38.6agent, agents, eval, benchmark
#11
Simon Willison · feed · Jun 22

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion

Editor's read

A post from Simon Willison. Plain version: Prompt Injection as Role Confusion First, I absolutely love this: This is a blog-style writeup of the paper.

Why you might care

Kept because it matched the radar’s AI/agent/tooling filters. Skim title + source first; open only if it lines up with current Hermes/OAC work.

Source excerpt

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion First, I absolutely love this: This is a blog-style writeup of the paper. I wish every paper would come with one of these. Academic writing is pretty dry - the impact of a paper can be so much higher if you publish a readable version to accompany the formal one. Charles Ye, Jasmine Cui, and Dylan Hadfield-Menell present so…

llmtoolspractical
skim38.0feed
#12
Google DeepMind Blog · feed · May 18

Fast-tracking genetic leads to reverse cellular aging

Editor's read

A post from Google DeepMind Blog. Plain version: Biologists use Co-Scientist to find novel factors that successfully rejuvenate human cells.

Why you might care

Kept because it matched the radar’s AI/agent/tooling filters. Skim title + source first; open only if it lines up with current Hermes/OAC work.

Source excerpt

Biologists use Co-Scientist to find novel factors that successfully rejuvenate human cells.

researchmodels
maybe18.0feed
#13
Google DeepMind Blog · feed · May 17

Simulate real-world places with Project Genie and Street View

Editor's read

A post from Google DeepMind Blog. Plain version: We’re expanding access to Google AI Ultra subscribers globally and introducing a new capability powered by Street View.

Why you might care

Kept because it matched the radar’s AI/agent/tooling filters. Skim title + source first; open only if it lines up with current Hermes/OAC work.

Source excerpt

We’re expanding access to Google AI Ultra subscribers globally and introducing a new capability powered by Street View.

researchmodels
maybe18.0feed
#14
Google DeepMind Blog · feed · May 17

Introducing Gemini Omni

Editor's read

A post from Google DeepMind Blog. Plain version: Introducing Gemini Omni, which allows you to create anything from any input and edit naturally using conversational language.

Why you might care

Kept because it matched the radar’s AI/agent/tooling filters. Skim title + source first; open only if it lines up with current Hermes/OAC work.

Source excerpt

Introducing Gemini Omni, which allows you to create anything from any input and edit naturally using conversational language.

researchmodelsdeep-summary
maybe18.0feed

Releases / software updates

Important for staying current, but intentionally below the longform material. Changelogs are seasoning, not dinner.
#01
GitHub · release · May 26

OpenAI Agents Python: v0.17.4

Release note

A new release/update from OpenAI Agents Python. Plain version: feat: support Realtime custom voice objects by @lionel-oai in * fix: #3459 add opt-in recovery for missing function tools by @seratch in * fix: apply hardened http client default to MCP SSE transport by @ioleksiuk in

Why you might care

Competitive intel: how OpenAI thinks agent SDKs should work, where Hermes is ahead/behind, and patterns we might borrow without joining the mothership.

Source excerpt

## What's Changed * feat: support Realtime custom voice objects by @lionel-oai in https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/pull/3473 * fix: #3459 add opt-in recovery for missing function tools by @seratch in https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/pull/3461 * fix: apply hardened http client default to MCP SSE transport by @ioleksiuk in https://…

agentssdkopenai/openai-agents-python
watch release58.0agent, agents, ai agent, mcp
#02
GitHub · release · Jun 19

Hermes Agent: Hermes Agent v0.17.0 (v2026.6.19)

Release note

A new release/update from Hermes Agent. Plain version: The Reach Release. v0.16.0 put Hermes on your desktop. v0.17.0 is about how far that reach extends — across new places to…

Why you might care

Directly relevant to your agent stack. This can affect Hermes behavior, upgrade timing, plugins, gateway surfaces, or ideas worth stealing for OAC/DestructoR666.

Source excerpt

# Hermes Agent v0.17.0 (v2026.6.19) **Release Date:** June 19, 2026 **Since v0.16.0:** ~1,475 commits · ~800 merged PRs · 1,693 files changed · 235,390 insertions · 50,730 deletions · 300+ issues closed · 245 community contributors > **The Reach Release.** v0.16.0 put Hermes on your desktop. v0.17.0 is about how far that reach extends — across new places to…

hermesagent-opsNousResearch/hermes-agent
watch release53.3hermes, hermes
#03
GitHub · release · Jun 5

Hermes Agent: Hermes Agent v0.16.0 (2026.6.5) — The Surface Release

Release note

A new release/update from Hermes Agent. Plain version: The Surface Release. Hermes meets you wherever you work. A brand-new na…

Why you might care

Directly relevant to your agent stack. This can affect Hermes behavior, upgrade timing, plugins, gateway surfaces, or ideas worth stealing for OAC/DestructoR666.

Source excerpt

# Hermes Agent v0.16.0 (v2026.6.5) **Release Date:** June 5, 2026 **Since v0.15.2:** 874 commits · 542 merged PRs · 1,962 files changed · 205,216 insertions · 46,217 deletions · 399 issues closed (2 P0, 62 P1, 16 security-tagged) · 170 community contributors (including co-authors) > **The Surface Release.** Hermes meets you wherever you work. A brand-new na…

hermesagent-opsNousResearch/hermes-agent
watch release48.0hermes, hermes
#04
GitHub · release · May 18

OpenAI Agents Python: v0.17.3

Release note

A new release/update from OpenAI Agents Python. Plain version: fix: keep mountpoint credentials out of sandbox commands by @seratch in * fix: unify memory optional dependency import errors by @seratch in * fix: guard None text in text_message_output and add output guardrail count to RunE…

Why you might care

Competitive intel: how OpenAI thinks agent SDKs should work, where Hermes is ahead/behind, and patterns we might borrow without joining the mothership.

Source excerpt

## What's Changed * fix: keep mountpoint credentials out of sandbox commands by @seratch in https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/pull/3429 * fix: unify memory optional dependency import errors by @seratch in https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/pull/3389 * fix: guard None text in text_message_output and add output guardrail count to RunE…

agentssdkopenai/openai-agents-python
watch release44.0agents, ai agent, memory, openai agents
#05
GitHub · release · Apr 1

MCP TypeScript SDK: @modelcontextprotocol/node@2.0.0-alpha.1

Release note

A new release/update from MCP TypeScript SDK. Plain version: Patch Changes - #1504 327243c Thanks @corvid-agent!

Why you might care

MCP is becoming the plumbing layer for agent tools. Worth watching because it shapes what Hermes/OAC can connect to without bespoke glue code.

Source excerpt

### Patch Changes - [#1504](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/pull/1504) [`327243c`](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/commit/327243cebd96e07686c88f7fa9ca22a5a7a7993d) Thanks [@corvid-agent](https://github.com/corvid-agent)! - Add missing `hono` peer dependency to `@modelcontextprotocol/node`. The package already de…

mcptoolsmodelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk
skim changelog37.0agent, mcp
#06
GitHub · release · Jun 18

LangGraph: langgraph==1.2.6

Release note

A new release/update from LangGraph. Plain version: 1.2.5 * release(langgraph): 1.2.6 (#8139) * fix: nested subgraph inherits parent checkpoint_ns (regression in 1.2.3) (#8053) * fix: cancel running subgraphs on v3 stream abort [closes #8029] (#8057) * release(cli): 0.4.30 (#8101)…

Why you might care

Useful as a contrast model for workflow/stateful agents. Even if we do not adopt it, it exposes design patterns and footguns for OAC-style continuity.

Source excerpt

Changes since 1.2.5 * release(langgraph): 1.2.6 (#8139) * fix: nested subgraph inherits parent checkpoint_ns (regression in 1.2.3) (#8053) * fix: cancel running subgraphs on v3 stream abort [closes #8029] (#8057) * release(cli): 0.4.30 (#8101) * docs: standardize package `README.md` structure (#8064) * chore(deps): bump tornado from 6.5.5 to 6.5.6 in /libs/…

agentsworkflowlangchain-ai/langgraph
skim changelog33.6agents, workflow
#07
GitHub · release · Jun 16

MCP Python SDK: v2.0.0a2

Release note

A new release/update from MCP Python SDK. Plain version: Full 2026-07-28 types added…

Why you might care

MCP is becoming the plumbing layer for agent tools. Worth watching because it shapes what Hermes/OAC can connect to without bespoke glue code.

Source excerpt

Second v2 alpha. Pre-releases are opt-in only; `pip install mcp` still resolves to the stable 1.x line. ```bash pip install mcp==2.0.0a2 # or uv add "mcp==2.0.0a2" ``` See the [migration guide](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk/blob/main/docs/migration.md) for the full list of breaking changes. ## Highlights ### Full 2026-07-28 types added…

mcptoolsmodelcontextprotocol/python-sdk
skim changelog30.1mcp
#08
GitHub · release · Jun 16

MCP Python SDK: v1.28.0

Release note

A new release/update from MCP Python SDK. Plain version: Deprecations Two API surfaces now emit DeprecationWarning ahead of their removal in v2.

Why you might care

MCP is becoming the plumbing layer for agent tools. Worth watching because it shapes what Hermes/OAC can connect to without bespoke glue code.

Source excerpt

## Deprecations Two API surfaces now emit `DeprecationWarning` ahead of their removal in v2. Nothing is removed in 1.x, and the warnings fire only when the deprecated API is *called* - importing the modules stays silent. - **WebSocket transport** - `mcp.client.websocket.websocket_client` and `mcp.server.websocket.websocket_server`. WebSocket was never part…

mcptoolsmodelcontextprotocol/python-sdk
skim changelog30.1mcp
#09
GitHub · release · Jun 16

LangGraph: langgraph-cli==0.4.30

Release note

A new release/update from LangGraph. Plain version: cli==0.4.29 * release(cli): 0.4.30 (#8101) * feat(cli): support compatible api version ranges (#8023) * docs: standardize package README.md structure (#8064)

Why you might care

Useful as a contrast model for workflow/stateful agents. Even if we do not adopt it, it exposes design patterns and footguns for OAC-style continuity.

Source excerpt

Changes since cli==0.4.29 * release(cli): 0.4.30 (#8101) * feat(cli): support compatible api version ranges (#8023) * docs: standardize package `README.md` structure (#8064)

agentsworkflowlangchain-ai/langgraph
skim changelog30.0agents, workflow
#10
GitHub · release · Apr 1

MCP TypeScript SDK: @modelcontextprotocol/server@2.0.0-alpha.2

Release note

A new release/update from MCP TypeScript SDK. Plain version: Patch Changes - #1840 424cbae Thanks @KKonstantinov!

Why you might care

MCP is becoming the plumbing layer for agent tools. Worth watching because it shapes what Hermes/OAC can connect to without bespoke glue code.

Source excerpt

### Patch Changes - [#1840](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/pull/1840) [`424cbae`](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/commit/424cbaeee13b7fe18d38048295135395b9ad81bb) Thanks [@KKonstantinov](https://github.com/KKonstantinov)! - tsdown exports resolution fix

mcptoolsmodelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk
skim changelog30.0mcp

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