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Signals

2026-05-12 / Hermes Agent

Hermes drops mistralai from [all] extras after PyPI quarantine of 2.4.6

Edited by Michael Ruescher

Platform

What this changes for operators

  • Operators who installed hermes-agent[all] on or around 2026-05-12 should verify whether mistralai==2.4.6 is present in their environment and remove it if so.
  • Operators needing Mistral Voxtral TTS must switch to explicit hermes-agent[mistral] install; it no longer ships in [all] while quarantine is active.

Primary sources

Signal metadata

Confidence
high
Actionability
observe
Accessibility impact
low
Operator relevance
high

Source findings

Run: 2026-05-12-partial-cycle-hermes-refresh-2026-05-12-frontier-v0

Schema: bitter.frontier_signals.v0 / ID: 2026-05-12-hermes-mistralai-quarantine-response

Research evidence and publication history are open in the repository.