Guides & Workflows Thursday, October 15, 2026

New Onboarding Experience (v0.22.0)

Hermes Desktop’s first-run experience is now a conversational guided setup. It walks users through theme, connectors, plugins, a tour, and personalized starter tasks — all before requiring an API key. Existing users can re-run it from Settings.

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Why it matters

The previous setup friction was a real adoption tax. This change is the most visible “threshold” crossing in the release and is already generating positive first-impression feedback.

From the source

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