The agentic rag, wrung out.
The rag for
Teknium’s Hermes update speedup. “Hermes update should be around 4x faster for everyone” (https://x.com/Teknium/status/2105809042291798441) is the post the builder timeline actually moved on: 550+ likes, 70+ replies in a few hours, Nous Research in the thread, and HermesWatcher / HermesAgentTips treating it as the thing to run tonight. Oh-My-Hermes is the best adjacent tool story, but it is a community plugin with self-reported benchmarks. The update cut is upstream, already shipping, and it changes the daily loop.
Teknium is back from vacation and says `hermes update` should now be about 4x faster for everyone. Nous Research replied in-thread. Community reaction was immediate (people running the update, HermesWatcher amplifying the desktop build speedup).
@rlaope shipped a same-day thread on oh-my-hermes (https://github.com/rlaope/oh-my-hermes). It sits beside Hermes and does not patch it. Requests are scored into lanes (rename vs deep search), each lane has its own model chain with fallthrough, prompts are tuned per model and kept only while a benchmark says they help. Author claims the same coding tasks on GPT-6 Astra dropped from $4.29 / 23 min to $0.66 / 5 min. Also ships a cost HUD, verification gates, project memory, and 100+ workflow skills. Earlier post cites 3,000+ GitHub stars.
Teknium: you can now add full new languages across all Hermes surfaces via plugin, on top of the 16 already supported.
Paperclip highlighted a NetworkChuck build: an AI IT department with Claude Code, Hermes, Codex, and local models as assigned roles, with tasks and human approvals. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RVf25Rg0Mc
Official release on 2026-09-30. Snappier under load, smoother long chats, verified backups for more agent databases, automatic DB rollback if an eligible update fails before the new version starts, plus fixes for upgrades from 2026.9.5. Adds OpenAI Agents API and Sign in with ChatGPT (Beta), better Apple chat, and restart recovery. Scale: 2,818 PRs, 344 contributors. Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/releases/2026.9.7
Nous Research: “It wouldn’t be a very open agent if we barred people from using their Codex subs in it.” Direct product stance, not a rumor.
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