Durable Kanban with hallucination gate, redaction-on-by-default, channel allowlists
What this changes for operators
- Operators upgrading existing Hermes deployments must verify that secret redaction is now ON by default. Log pipelines that relied on unredacted output will see sanitized logs after upgrade.
- Discord operators with role-gated access (
DISCORD_ALLOWED_ROLES) should re-verify their role-scoping configuration: the guild-scoped fix (CVSS 8.1) may change behavior in cross-guild bot deployments. - Operators building multi-agent workflows on Hermes should evaluate the Kanban board's reliability primitives (heartbeat reclaim, zombie detection, hallucination gate, per-task retries) before building a custom coordination layer.
- Operators using cron should evaluate
no_agentmode for script-only automation that does not require LLM invocation.
Receipts
- release_note v0.13.0 release notes (v2026.5.7) — The Tenacity Release NousResearch/hermes-agent · v2026.5.7
- merged_pr Durable multi-profile Kanban board (PR #17805) github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/17805
- merged_pr Enable secret redaction by default (PR #21193) github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/21193
- merged_pr Platform channel allowlists (PR #21251) github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/21251
- merged_pr Auto-resume interrupted sessions (PR #21192) github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/21192
- merged_pr no_agent cron mode (PR #19709) github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/19709
Signal metadata
Source findings
- Hermes Agent v0.13.0: Durable Kanban, Persistent Goals, and a Security Hardening Wave 2026-05-12-hermes-tenacity-kanban-and-security
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- Governance Becomes Enforcement · 2026-05-12
Run: 2026-05-12-partial-cycle-hermes-agent-2026-05-07_2026-05-12-frontier-v0
Schema: bitter.frontier_signals.v0 · ID: 2026-05-12-hermes-tenacity-kanban-and-security
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