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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 · Jul 30

Showcase Thursday - Drop your Hermes projects here.

Editor's read

A Reddit field report/discussion from r/hermesagent. Plain version: Showcase Thursday — post your Hermes Agent builds, tools, workflows, and integrations.

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

Showcase Thursday — post your Hermes Agent builds, tools, workflows, and integrations. New Post every week 6am EST. Tell us: • What it does • How it's helpful Include a link to code or demo if you have one. Rules: • No marketplace or affiliate links • Any contribution level welcome (Might be flagged by automod but will be approved, be patient) • Thread pinn…

reddithermesagentshermesagent
read67.9hermes, hermes, agents, workflow
#02
r/hermesagent · reddit · Jul 30

What provider and model do you actually use with Hermes—and what does it cost you?

Editor's read

A Reddit field report/discussion from r/hermesagent. Plain version: I’m putting together a community-sourced provider and model guide, but I want real usage data instead of another list based on benchmarks and marketing pages.

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 putting together a community-sourced provider and model guide, but I want real usage data instead of another list based on benchmarks and marketing pages. Drop your current setup below—including what works, what doesn’t, and what you’re actually paying. Please use this format so the responses can be compiled into a future megathread: Provider: OpenAI, A…

reddithermesagentshermesagent
read67.7hermes, hermes, agents, benchmark
#03
OpenAI News · feed · Jul 28

How GPT-5.6 fuses frontier intelligence with frontier efficiency

Editor's read

A post from OpenAI News. Plain version: GPT-5.6 improves AI efficiency across models, inference, and agentic workflows, helping deliver more useful intelligence per dollar.

Why you might care

Potentially useful for keeping your stack cheaper, more private, and less dependent on cloud APIs. Worth a skim if it looks practical.

Source excerpt

GPT-5.6 improves AI efficiency across models, inference, and agentic workflows, helping deliver more useful intelligence per dollar.

openaimodelsagents
read64.4agent, agents, workflow, inference
#04
Hacker News · hn · Jul 29

Fund Momentum MCP: Live VC Fund Data for AI Agents

Editor's read

A community-submitted project/thread. A title-first lead about: Fund Momentum MCP: Live VC Fund Data for AI Agents. Skim it only if that maps to current agent/tooling work. Treat it as an early smoke signal, not a verdict. HN: 3 points, 2 comments. Query: AI agents tool use.

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

HN: 3 points, 2 comments. Query: AI agents tool use.

hnAI agents tool use
read64.3agent, agents, ai agent, mcp
#05
r/hermesagent · reddit · Jul 30

How to Use Hermes Agent as a Student (From a bad learner who just passed first semester)

Editor's read

A Reddit field report/discussion from r/hermesagent. Plain version: now i made a video about the topic i posted a few days ago, i hope this helps visualize it better.

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

now i made a video about the topic i posted a few days ago, i hope this helps visualize it better. let me know what you think. I have realised that many of you guys are students, so I figured I would share what has helped me as a student. If you don't know me yet: I am Holme Bengt. I have been obsessed with starting a company for 4 years. Tried a lot of stu…

reddithermesagentshermesagent
read61.0hermes, hermes, agents

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 · Jul 29

How enabling two settings tripled our scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark

Editor's read

A post from OpenAI News. Plain version: How two API settings improved GPT-5.6 performance on ARC-AGI-3, boosting scores and efficiency by retaining reasoning and enabling compaction.

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

How two API settings improved GPT-5.6 performance on ARC-AGI-3, boosting scores and efficiency by retaining reasoning and enabling compaction.

openaimodelsagents
read51.5agents, benchmark
#07
Hacker News · hn · Jul 29

Show HN: Sitrep - AI Copilot For Incidents

Editor's read

A community-submitted project/thread. A newly surfaced project/tool lead: AI Copilot For Incidents Treat it as an early smoke signal, not a verdict. HN: 4 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: 4 points, 0 comments. Query: AI agents tool use.

hnAI agents tool use
read50.6agent, agents, ai agent, tool use
#08
Hacker News · hn · Jul 29

Show HN: Vostorq – I built the anti-Slack after working at a Slack-first company

Editor's read

A community-submitted project/thread. A newly surfaced project/tool lead: I built the anti-Slack after working at a Slack-first company Treat it as an early smoke signal, not a verdict. HN: 2 points, 2 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, 2 comments. Query: AI agents tool use.

hnAI agents tool use
read50.5agent, agents, ai agent, tool use
#09
Simon Willison · feed · Jul 28

Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT

Editor's read

A post from Simon Willison. Plain version: TIL: Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT Connecting a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT's standard chat interfaces is possible, but can take quite a few steps.

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

TIL: Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT Connecting a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT's standard chat interfaces is possible, but can take quite a few steps. Tags: ai , generative-ai , chatgpt , llms , claude , model-context-protocol

llmtoolspractical
read50.4mcp
#10
arXiv · paper · Jul 29

TurboVLA: Real-Time Vision-Language-Action Model at 32 Hz on an RTX 4090 with <1 GB VRAM

Editor's read

A research paper. In human terms: Vision-language-action (VLA) models commonly adopt an LLM-centric $V \to L \to A$ pathway, where visual observations are projected into the representation space of a large language model before being decoded i…

Why you might care

This maps directly onto OAC: what agents remember, what they should forget, and how not to build a cursed context landfill.

Source excerpt

Vision-language-action (VLA) models commonly adopt an LLM-centric $V \to L \to A$ pathway, where visual observations are projected into the representation space of a large language model before being decoded into robot actions. Although effective, this design incurs substantial computation and memory overhead at every policy invocation. In this work, we introduce TurboVLA, a new VLA paradigm that reformulates the co…

paperLLM evaluation benchmark agentscs.CVcs.RO
skim abstract45.7agent, agents, memory, eval
#11
Latent Space · feed · Jul 29

[AINews] AI is eating Finance; AIE NYC now open

Editor's read

A post from Latent Space. Plain version: a quiet day lets us cover how AI is permeating financial services as the next big vertical after coding.

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

a quiet day lets us cover how AI is permeating financial services as the next big vertical after coding.

aiindustryagents
read45.1agents
#12
OpenAI News · feed · Jul 29

Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers

Editor's read

A post from OpenAI News. Plain version: OpenAI is giving 100,000 academic researchers free access to ChatGPT's most advanced AI models to accelerate scientific research, collaboration, and discovery.

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

OpenAI is giving 100,000 academic researchers free access to ChatGPT's most advanced AI models to accelerate scientific research, collaboration, and discovery.

openaimodelsagents
read44.1agents
#13
arXiv · paper · Jul 29

Fault-Tolerant Logical Operations and Efficient State Preparation in Modular Quantum Architectures with Noisy Interfaces

Editor's read

A research paper. In human terms: Modular quantum computing is a leading paradigm for scaling quantum computation beyond the resource limitations of monolithic devices.

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

Modular quantum computing is a leading paradigm for scaling quantum computation beyond the resource limitations of monolithic devices. In this architecture, multiple quantum processing units (QPUs), employing identical or distinct qubit modalities, are interconnected via shared entanglement. Here, we investigate how errors at module interfaces and within individual QPUs affect fault-tolerant computation when qubits…

paperLLM evaluation benchmark agentsquant-ph
paper shelf38.7agent, agents, eval, benchmark
#14
arXiv · paper · Jul 29

Do You Really Need to Pretrain Q-Functions for Online RL Fine-Tuning?

Editor's read

A research paper. In human terms: Pre-training followed by fine-tuning has become the dominant recipe for learning performant policies, and in value-based reinforcement learning (RL) this raises a natural question: given a pretrained policy, s…

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

Pre-training followed by fine-tuning has become the dominant recipe for learning performant policies, and in value-based reinforcement learning (RL) this raises a natural question: given a pretrained policy, should the Q-function be pretrained on offline data too? Conventional wisdom suggests it should, but recent results show that online RL with a randomly-initialized Q-function can result in highly performant and…

paperLLM evaluation benchmark agentscs.LG
paper shelf38.7agent, agents, eval, benchmark

Releases / software updates

Important for staying current, but intentionally below the longform material. Changelogs are seasoning, not dinner.
#01
GitHub · release · Jul 20

Hermes Agent: Hermes Agent v0.19.0 (2026.7.20) — The Quicksilver Release

Release note

A new release/update from Hermes Agent. Plain version: Hermes is the messenger god, and this window we made him move like it.

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 v0.19.0 (v2026.7.20) **Release Date:** July 20, 2026 **Since v0.18.0:** ~2,245 commits · ~1,065 merged PRs · ~2,465 files changed · ~300,000 insertions · ~36,000 deletions · **~3,300 issues closed** · **450+ community contributors** > **The Quicksilver Release.** Hermes is the messenger god, and this window we made him move like it. First-tur…

hermesagent-opsNousResearch/hermes-agent
watch release48.0hermes, hermes
#02
GitHub · release · Jul 7

Hermes Agent: Hermes Agent v0.18.2 (2026.7.7.2)

Release note

A new release/update from Hermes Agent. Plain version: --- ## What's in this patch - fix(whatsapp): unpin Baileys from git commit, use published 7.0.0-rc13 ([#60643](

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 v0.18.2 (v2026.7.7.2) **Release Date:** July 7, 2026 > Same-day patch on top of v0.18.1, picking up the WhatsApp Baileys dependency fix needed for tagged-release Docker builds. --- ## What's in this patch - **fix(whatsapp): unpin Baileys from git commit, use published 7.0.0-rc13** ([#60643](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60…

hermesagent-opsNousResearch/hermes-agent
watch release48.0hermes, hermes
#03
GitHub · release · Jul 29

OpenAI Agents Python: v0.19.1

Release note

A new release/update from OpenAI Agents Python. Plain version: feat(sandbox): support native host paths in path grants by @seratch in * fix: redact Realtime audio format diagnostics by @seratch in * fix: redact Blaxel unmount paths in logging by @seratch 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(sandbox): support native host paths in path grants by @seratch in https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/pull/4009 * fix: redact Realtime audio format diagnostics by @seratch in https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/pull/3992 * fix: redact Blaxel unmount paths in logging by @seratch in https://github.com/openai/open…

agentssdkopenai/openai-agents-python
watch release47.0agents, ai agent, openai agents
#04
GitHub · release · Jul 28

MCP Python SDK: v2.0.0

Release note

A new release/update from MCP Python SDK. Plain version: MCP Python SDK v2 Stable Release This is v2.0.0, the stable v2 release of the MCP Python SDK.

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

# MCP Python SDK v2 Stable Release This is v2.0.0, the stable v2 release of the MCP Python SDK. It supports the 2026-07-28 revision of the Model Context Protocol and serves every earlier revision from the same server. `pip install mcp` now installs 2.x. ```bash pip install "mcp[cli]" # or uv add "mcp[cli]" ``` ### Documentation Rewrite The [documentation](h…

mcptoolsmodelcontextprotocol/python-sdk
watch release45.6mcp, model context protocol
#05
GitHub · release · Jul 16

OpenAI Agents Python: v0.18.3

Release note

A new release/update from OpenAI Agents Python. Plain version: feat: make task and turn tracing spans configurable by @seratch in * feat(realtime): track response usage in session context by @seratch in * fix(memory): serialize OpenAI conversation session initialization by @russeell in h…

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: make task and turn tracing spans configurable by @seratch in https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/pull/3834 * feat(realtime): track response usage in session context by @seratch in https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/pull/3812 * fix(memory): serialize OpenAI conversation session initialization by @russeell in h…

agentssdkopenai/openai-agents-python
watch release44.0agents, ai agent, memory, openai agents
#06
GitHub · release · Jul 28

LangGraph: langgraph==1.2.10

Release note

A new release/update from LangGraph. Plain version: 1.2.9 * release(langgraph): 1.2.10 (#8462) * chore(deps): bump jupyterlab from 4.5.9 to 4.5.10 in /libs/langgraph (#8440) * chore(deps): bump setuptools from 80.9.0 to 83.0.0 in /libs/langgraph (#8435) * feat(langgraph): type v3…

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 1.2.9 * release(langgraph): 1.2.10 (#8462) * chore(deps): bump jupyterlab from 4.5.9 to 4.5.10 in /libs/langgraph (#8440) * chore(deps): bump setuptools from 80.9.0 to 83.0.0 in /libs/langgraph (#8435) * feat(langgraph): type v3 stream_events return and native projections (#8389) * revert(langgraph): delete TracePolicy (#8403) * feat(langgraph…

agentsworkflowlangchain-ai/langgraph
skim changelog39.0agents, workflow
#07
GitHub · release · Jul 28

MCP Python SDK: v1.29.0

Release note

A new release/update from MCP Python SDK. Plain version: [v1.x] Route Context.report_progress() to the originating request stream by @maxisbey in * [v1.x] docs: publish llms.txt and markdown renditions of the docs by @maxisbey in * [v1.x] docs: pin mkdocs<2 by @maxisbey in…

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

## What's Changed * [v1.x] Route Context.report_progress() to the originating request stream by @maxisbey in https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk/pull/2994 * [v1.x] docs: publish llms.txt and markdown renditions of the docs by @maxisbey in https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk/pull/3029 * [v1.x] docs: pin mkdocs<2 by @maxisbey in…

mcptoolsmodelcontextprotocol/python-sdk
skim changelog38.6mcp
#08
GitHub · release · Jul 27

MCP TypeScript SDK: @modelcontextprotocol/server-legacy@2.0.0

Release note

A new release/update from MCP TypeScript SDK. Plain version: Minor Changes - #2477 8e1d2e9 Thanks @felixweinberger!

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

### Minor Changes - [#2477](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/pull/2477) [`8e1d2e9`](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/commit/8e1d2e92b1720d2520122b3a5f20ea084edaf3c4) Thanks [@felixweinberger](https://github.com/felixweinberger)! - Move the schema source modules (spec schemas, OAuth schemas, protocol constants) int…

mcptoolsmodelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk
skim changelog37.6mcp
#09
GitHub · release · Jul 27

MCP TypeScript SDK: @modelcontextprotocol/server@2.0.0

Release note

A new release/update from MCP TypeScript SDK. Plain version: Minor Changes - #2501 1480241 Thanks @felixweinberger!

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

### Minor Changes - [#2501](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/pull/2501) [`1480241`](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/commit/1480241e2a2a7f0ceee8e7723b2adcf88579bb36) Thanks [@felixweinberger](https://github.com/felixweinberger)! - Export the `Protocol` base class and `mergeCapabilities` from the `@modelcontextprot…

mcptoolsmodelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk
skim changelog37.6mcp
#10
GitHub · release · Jul 29

Pydantic AI: v2.21.0 (2026-07-29)

Release note

A new release/update from Pydantic AI. Plain version: Refresh KnownModelName from Gateway probes and stable Google image IDs by @adtyavrdhn in Full Changelog:

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 ### 🚀 Features * feat(usage): add `per_request_input_tokens_limit` to `UsageLimits` by @Oxygen56 in https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/pull/5907 ### 🐛 Bug Fixes * Refresh `KnownModelName` from Gateway probes and stable Google image IDs by @adtyavrdhn in https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/pull/6806 **Full Changelog**: https://gith…

agentspythonpydantic/pydantic-ai
skim changelog34.3agents

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