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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
Simon Willison · feed · Sep 5

Using Blender with coding agents on macOS

Editor's read

A post from Simon Willison. Plain version: TIL: Using Blender with coding agents on macOS I've been having fun with Blender in ChatGPT Codex on my Mac recently.

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

TIL: Using Blender with coding agents on macOS I've been having fun with Blender in ChatGPT Codex on my Mac recently. Getting it to work with coding agents is really easy: install the full Mac application from blender.org and run a prompt like this: Use the already install /Applications/Blender to render a scene of a pelican riding a bicycle In this case I…

llmtoolspractical
read65.6agent, agents, coding agent, codex
#02
Latent Space · feed · Sep 5

OpenClaw Power, MacBook Simplicity: Five Days With Grok Bot

Editor's read

A post from Latent Space. Plain version: SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot has the same level of programming power as OpenClaw, but it’s programmable at a different level of abstraction.

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

SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot has the same level of programming power as OpenClaw, but it’s programmable at a different level of abstraction.

aiindustryagents
read51.5openclaw, agents
#03
r/hermesagent · reddit · undated

anyone building serious stuff with hermes agent?

Editor's read

A Reddit field report/discussion from r/hermesagent. Plain version: June 21, 2026 - I previously used Deepseek V4 flash/pro but found it hallucinates more than I'd like so now I'm mainly on MIMO v2.5/pro + GLM 5.2.

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

Search-indexed Reddit result. June 21, 2026 - I previously used Deepseek V4 flash/pro but found it hallucinates more than I'd like so now I'm mainly on MIMO v2.5/pro + GLM 5.2. For big projects with somewhat higher stakes or things that any of the agents somehow get stuck on, I just get claude to audit. ... I’ve been meaning to…

reddithermesagentssearch-fallback
read49.0hermes, hermes, agents
#04
r/hermesagent · reddit · undated

What do you personally use Hermes for? Is it more than just hype?

Editor's read

A Reddit field report/discussion from r/hermesagent. Plain version: 2 weeks ago - Next step for me is netflow tooling and openNMS tooling I already added VMware, kunernetes, and F5 tooling so the agent can understand the health of the application stack ...

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

Search-indexed Reddit result. 2 weeks ago - Next step for me is netflow tooling and openNMS tooling I already added VMware, kunernetes, and F5 tooling so the agent can understand the health of the application stack ... This is what mine does, plus coding and more. Very useful. ... The 24x7, the telegram access, the self-improve…

reddithermesagentssearch-fallback
read49.0hermes, hermes, agents
#05
r/hermesagent · reddit · undated

The Hermes Agent desktop app looks fantastic.

Editor's read

A Reddit field report/discussion from r/hermesagent. Plain version: June 2, 2026 - How it works The packaged app ships only the Electron shell.

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

Search-indexed Reddit result. June 2, 2026 - How it works The packaged app ships only the Electron shell. On first launch it installs the Hermes Agent runtime into HERMES_HOME (~/.hermes, or %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes on Windows) — the same layout a CLI install uses, which is why the two are interchangeable.

reddithermesagentssearch-fallback
read49.0hermes, hermes, agents

Articles / research / opinions

The stuff people are thinking, trying, arguing, and building with the tech. This is the main read pile.
#06
Hacker News · hn · Sep 4

Show HN: Votito helps you decide what to build next with confidence

Editor's read

A community-submitted project/thread. A practical how-to or field note. The title points at this angle: Votito helps you decide what to build next with confidence. 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
read48.6agent, agents, ai agent, tool use
#07
Hacker News · hn · Sep 3

Show HN: Mu – an agent with actual command line experience

Editor's read

A community-submitted project/thread. A newly surfaced project/tool lead: an agent with actual command line experience Treat it as an early smoke signal, not a verdict. HN: 1 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: 1 points, 0 comments. Query: AI agents tool use.

hnAI agents tool use
read46.9agent, agents, ai agent, tool use
#08
Hacker News · hn · Sep 3

Show HN: Openvurp – A wallet of AI agents that use tools and consult each other

Editor's read

A community-submitted project/thread. A newly surfaced project/tool lead: A wallet of AI agents that use tools and consult each other Treat it as an early smoke signal, not a verdict. HN: 3 points, 1 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: 3 points, 1 comments. Query: AI agents tool use.

hnAI agents tool use
read46.8agent, agents, ai agent, tool use
#09
Simon Willison · feed · Sep 6

Quoting Zach Kehs

Editor's read

A post from Simon Willison. Plain version: If you continue to add floors and rooms to a building forever, it will collapse.

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

If you continue to add floors and rooms to a building forever, it will collapse. Software faces no such constraint. The code can always get worse. There can always be a new layer of indirection or a reduction in performance. — Zach Kehs , There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get Tags: technical-debt

llmtoolspractical
skim38.8feed
#10
Simon Willison · feed · Sep 5

Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers

Editor's read

A post from Simon Willison. Plain version: Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers Blink and you'll miss it, but there's a familiar creature at 1m59s : Across the board, Astra has more attention to detail, better understanding of the user's prompt, and…

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 GPT-6 Astra for developers Blink and you'll miss it, but there's a familiar creature at 1m59s : Across the board, Astra has more attention to detail, better understanding of the user's prompt, and can build more sophisticated outputs. In particular, it excels at building 3D models. I've seen it make incredible renderings of gardens, shipyards, a…

llmtoolspractical
skim38.1feed
#11
OpenAI News · feed · Sep 1

Healthcare organizations can now connect EHR and additional industry data to ChatGPT

Editor's read

A post from OpenAI News. Plain version: ChatGPT can now connect to trusted healthcare data, helping clinicians securely access patient context, medical research, and more.

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

ChatGPT can now connect to trusted healthcare data, helping clinicians securely access patient context, medical research, and more.

openaimodelsagents
skim37.1agents
#12
arXiv · paper · Sep 3

Clean Engineering, Unstable Measurement: A Preregistered Reliability Failure of Black-Box LLM Observers on Shared Endpoints

Editor's read

A research paper. In human terms: Language-model judges now gate training data, score generations, and drive leaderboards.

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

Language-model judges now gate training data, score generations, and drive leaderboards. The judge is then a measurement instrument, resting on one rarely stated assumption: the same request, sent to the same model name, reads the same tomorrow. We audited that assumption in two preregistered campaigns with every threshold fixed in advance; neither got past validating its instrument. Across 52,988 audited request at…

paperLLM evaluation benchmark agentscs.AIcs.LG
paper shelf35.1agent, agents, eval, benchmark
#13
arXiv · paper · Sep 3

ESPO: Error-Structured Prompt Optimization via Diagnose, Diversify, and Stabilize

Editor's read

A research paper. In human terms: Evolutionary prompt optimizers such as GEPA suffer from prompt bloat: each iteration appends rules and caveats, producing prompts up to 3$\times$ longer yet no more accurate.

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

Evolutionary prompt optimizers such as GEPA suffer from prompt bloat: each iteration appends rules and caveats, producing prompts up to 3$\times$ longer yet no more accurate. We trace this to three deficiencies - incomplete error observation, limited search diversity, and unreliable selection - and propose ESPO (Error-Structured Prompt Optimization), which decomposes prompt optimization into three phases: Diagnose c…

paperLLM evaluation benchmark agentscs.CLcs.AI
paper shelf35.1agent, agents, eval, benchmark
#14
arXiv · paper · Sep 3

Legibility is Not Interpretability: Comparing Judged and Actual Importance in Chain-Of-Thought Reasoning

Editor's read

A research paper. In human terms: Reasoning traces from chain-of-thought models appear to offer a legible window into how a model arrives at its answer.

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

Reasoning traces from chain-of-thought models appear to offer a legible window into how a model arrives at its answer. A growing body of work treats them as such, using LLM judges to diagnose errors, evaluate faithfulness, and provide step-level supervision via process reward models and generative critics. These practices rely on the text of a reasoning step carrying information about its functional role. But does t…

paperLLM evaluation benchmark agentscs.CLcs.LG
paper shelf35.1agent, agents, eval, benchmark

Releases / software updates

Important for staying current, but intentionally below the longform material. Changelogs are seasoning, not dinner.
#01
GitHub · release · Aug 10

OpenAI Agents Python: v0.20.0

Release note

A new release/update from OpenAI Agents Python. Plain version: The default model is now gpt-5.6-lun…

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

## Key Changes Version 0.20.0 is a minor release because it changes the implicit default model and includes a potentially breaking MCP dependency migration for applications with customized local HTTP transports. MCP v1 remains supported, and affected applications can migrate to `httpx2` or pin `mcp<2`. ### Highlights: - The default model is now `gpt-5.6-lun…

agentssdkopenai/openai-agents-python
watch release58.0agent, agents, ai agent, mcp
#02
GitHub · release · Aug 31

Hermes Agent: Hermes Agent v0.21.0 (v2026.8.31)

Release note

A new release/update from Hermes Agent. Plain version: The Pantheon Release. v0.20.0 made Hermes the herald — he spoke, and he carried word to other agents. In v0.21.0 the…

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 v0.21.0 (v2026.8.31) **Release Date:** August 31, 2026 **Since v0.20.0:** ~5,800 commits · ~2,475 merged PRs · ~5,680 files changed · ~869,000 insertions · ~135,000 deletions · **~2,100 issues closed** · 760+ contributors > **The Pantheon Release.** v0.20.0 made Hermes the herald — he spoke, and he carried word to other agents. In v0.21.0 the…

hermesagent-opsNousResearch/hermes-agent
watch release56.8hermes, hermes, agents
#03
GitHub · release · Aug 27

Hermes Agent: Hermes Agent v0.20.6 (v2026.8.27)

Release note

A new release/update from Hermes Agent. Plain version: A broad changelog-style release with lots of merged work. Skim it if you are deciding whether to upgrade or want to spot changed surfaces.

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 v0.20.6 (v2026.8.27) **Release Date:** August 27, 2026 > Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~525 PRs merged since v0.20.5 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, hosted deployments, fresh installs). --- ## About this release Since v0.20.5 (v2026.8.19, tagged August 21), this window landed **~1,313 commits** acr…

hermesagent-opsNousResearch/hermes-agent
watch release48.0hermes, hermes
#04
GitHub · release · Aug 28

Pydantic AI: v2.36.0 (2026-08-28)

Release note

A new release/update from Pydantic AI. Plain version: ⚠️ Compatibility Notes * Add --mcp-config support and tool-call streaming to clai by @Kludex in ### 🚀 Features * Add @durable_operation for capabilities and a public backend API for third-party durable execution engines by @Douwe…

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 ### ⚠️ Compatibility Notes * Add `--mcp-config` support and tool-call streaming to `clai` by @Kludex in https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/pull/1374 ### 🚀 Features * Add `@durable_operation` for capabilities and a public backend API for third-party durable execution engines by @DouweM in https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/pull/66…

agentspythonpydantic/pydantic-ai
watch release44.0agent, agents, mcp
#05
GitHub · release · Aug 19

OpenAI Agents Python: v0.22.0

Release note

A new release/update from OpenAI Agents Python. Plain version: Redacts terminal function-tool output rejected by…

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

## Key Changes Version 0.22.0 is a minor release because it adds substantial runtime hardening and tightens an existing provider configuration contract. Applications that combine an explicit `openai_client` with `organization` or `project` must move those values to the `AsyncOpenAI` client. ### Highlights: - Redacts terminal function-tool output rejected by…

agentssdkopenai/openai-agents-python
skim changelog37.0agents, ai agent, openai agents
#06
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
skim changelog37.0mcp, model context protocol
#07
GitHub · release · Sep 4

Pydantic AI: v2.40.0 (2026-09-04)

Release note

A new release/update from Pydantic AI. Plain version: 🚀 Features * Add pydantic_ai.prices.update_in_background() by @adtyavrdhn in * Handle barge-in in the session: handle_barge_in=True, interrupt(played_bytes=...), and played_audio_bytes by @DouweM in * Add provider_factory to i…

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 * Add `pydantic_ai.prices.update_in_background()` by @adtyavrdhn in https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/pull/4841 * Handle barge-in in the session: `handle_barge_in=True`, `interrupt(played_bytes=...)`, and `played_audio_bytes` by @DouweM in https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/pull/7870 * Add `provider_factory` to `i…

agentspythonpydantic/pydantic-ai
skim changelog32.4agents
#08
GitHub · release · Aug 27

LangGraph: langgraph-sdk==0.4.4

Release note

A new release/update from LangGraph. Plain version: sdk==0.4.3 * release(sdk-py): 0.4.4 (#8738) * Merge commit from fork * feat: route LangSmith traces from thread streams (#8723)

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 sdk==0.4.3 * release(sdk-py): 0.4.4 (#8738) * Merge commit from fork * feat: route LangSmith traces from thread streams (#8723)

agentsworkflowlangchain-ai/langgraph
skim changelog30.0agents, workflow
#09
GitHub · release · Aug 26

MCP Python SDK: v2.0.1

Release note

A new release/update from MCP Python SDK. Plain version: [v2.0.x] Point imports of mcp.server.fastmcp at the migration guide 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

One off backport of the FastMCP import warning for `2.0.x`, this is due to a lot of people running into this error and making issues on other repos about it. Ideally either pin `mcp<2` or upgrade to 2. ## What's Changed * [v2.0.x] Point imports of mcp.server.fastmcp at the migration guide by @maxisbey in https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk/pu…

mcptoolsmodelcontextprotocol/python-sdk
skim changelog30.0mcp
#10
GitHub · release · Aug 19

LangGraph: langgraph-sdk==0.4.3

Release note

A new release/update from LangGraph. Plain version: sdk==0.4.2 * release(sdk-py): 0.4.3 (#8657) * feat(sdk-py): add decrypt replacement result (#8598) * release(langgraph): 1.2.11 (#8595) * chore(deps): bump the minor-and-patch group across 1 directory with 5 updates (#8532) * rel…

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 sdk==0.4.2 * release(sdk-py): 0.4.3 (#8657) * feat(sdk-py): add decrypt replacement result (#8598) * release(langgraph): 1.2.11 (#8595) * chore(deps): bump the minor-and-patch group across 1 directory with 5 updates (#8532) * release(checkpoint): 4.2.0 (#8563) * chore: enforce PLC0415 in tests for the remaining packages (#8547) * release(langg…

agentsworkflowlangchain-ai/langgraph
skim changelog30.0agents, workflow

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