Hermes just got insanely fast.
Hermes is the engine inside your Agent OS. This week it got a huge upgrade called the Velocity Release — and the whole point is speed. Faster to start. Faster to find your old chats. Faster to get real work done. Plus it's safer, and it can now reach you anywhere. Here's what changed, why it matters, and what's in it for you — all in plain English.
Every few weeks, the team behind Hermes ships a big update. This one is my favourite kind: it doesn't add a hundred confusing buttons — it just makes everything you already do faster and smoother. They even named it "the Velocity Release," because the whole theme is speed.
I've grouped the best parts into six simple wins. You don't need to understand the tech behind any of them. You just need to know what each one does for you. So let's walk through them — and at the end, you run one command and you've got the lot.
— JulianWhy I get excited about a release like this
For years, the tools I used felt like they were fighting me. Slow to open. Slow to search. I'd lose a great chat from last week and never find it again. I'd wait, and wait, and wait for things to load. Little delays, all day long. They add up to a real tax on your time — and on your patience.
So when an update lands that's all about being faster, I pay attention. Because speed isn't a "nice to have." Speed is the difference between using a tool now and then, and reaching for it a hundred times a day because it never gets in your way. That's what this release does. It gets out of your way. And when your tools get out of your way, you finally start shipping. Members in 38 countries run this exact engine — and you can have the upgrade in about a minute.
Here's the deal: read these six wins, then run the one update command at the bottom tonight. That's it. The people who keep putting off updates are using a slower, older tool every single day without realising it. The people who hit update get a faster, safer, smarter helper in about a minute — for free. I want that to be you. Read it. Update it. Then come tell us in the Boardroom what got quicker. Deal?
Win 1. It starts faster — and the whole engine got lighter
Open it. It's just there.
The team did a giant clean-up under the hood. The main part of Hermes used to be one enormous file — so big it took ages to load. They shrank it by 76% and tidied it into neat, small pieces. On top of that, they trimmed another full second off how long it takes to start up.
Win 2. Finding an old chat is now instant — and free
Search your past chats in the blink of an eye
You know that great chat you had last week — the one with the perfect answer in it? Finding it used to be slow and it actually cost a little money each time. Now? Searching your past chats is 4,500 times faster and completely free. What took half a minute now takes a split second.
"Half a minute and a few cents… down to a split second and free. That's the whole release in one upgrade."
Win 3. Big jobs now get done by a team of helpers
This is the biggest one. Hermes' to-do board (the "Kanban") grew up into a real team manager. Here's the simple version of what that means:
Give it a big job. It splits it up and gets a team on it.
Before, you'd hand Hermes one job and it would work through it alone. Now you can hand it a big job and it will break it into smaller pieces, put a helper on each piece, have them work at the same time, and then have another helper check the work before it's called done.
You can even tell it to use a cheap, fast helper for the easy bits and a smarter one for the hard bits — so you get great work without wasting money. And you can schedule jobs to start later, like "begin this at 6am."
It's one command: hermes kanban swarm sets up the whole team for you — the workers, the checker, the shared board. You don't wire anything by hand. And we walk through it together on the weekly calls if you want a hand.
Win 4. It's safer — for your agent and your passwords
It now blocks attacks that try to trick your helper
There's a nasty trick where someone hides secret instructions inside a file or a website, hoping your AI helper will read them and start doing what the attacker wants. Hermes now watches for this at three checkpoints and blocks it. Your helper only listens to you.
One safe vault for all your passwords
Instead of keeping lots of secret keys in a plain text file on your computer, you can now keep them all in one secure vault (Bitwarden). Hermes grabs what it needs when it starts. Change a password once in the vault, and it updates everywhere.
We hit "update" together
Every time Hermes ships a release like this, we run through it live inside the AI Profit Boardroom — what's new, what to turn on, and how to use it. Plus four live calls a week where a real person helps you. 3,200+ members. Plain English. Always.
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Get a ping the moment your work is ready
Hermes can now send you a push notification — to your phone, your watch, your computer — the second a job finishes. No new account, no sign-up needed. Set a job running, go for a walk, and get a little buzz when it's done.
Win 6. It's easier to grow with new powers
Turn on a whole work-day setup with one word
You can now group your favourite helpers into a "bundle" and switch them all on at once. Make a "writing day" bundle, type one short command, and all the right helpers wake up together — ready for that kind of work. There's also a tidy store of trusted add-ons and two new picture-makers you can switch on in a click.
The Goldie Velocity Wins™ — recap
Six wins, one quick update
- Faster to start — a lighter engine that opens in a blink.
- Faster to find — search your past chats 4,500× faster, for free.
- Faster to get work done — give one big job, a team of helpers handles it.
- Safer — blocks sneaky attacks, and keeps your passwords in one safe vault.
- Reaches you anywhere — a buzz on your phone the second a job's done.
- Grows with you — turn on a whole work setup with one word.
Notice the theme: none of these ask more of you. They all give you back time, take away waiting, and keep you safe. That's the kind of upgrade worth running today.
How to get it — one command
Ready? Getting all six wins takes one line. Open your Terminal and type:
hermes updateThat's it. Hermes downloads the new version, checks that everything is healthy, and if anything looks off it safely rolls back on its own. A minute later, you're running the Velocity Release.
Want every tiny detail? The team publishes the full release notes for each version — but honestly, the six wins above are the parts you'll actually feel day to day.
"One command. About a minute. A faster, safer, smarter helper for free."
Hit update. Feel the difference.
Run hermes update tonight, open it up, and notice how much quicker everything feels. Then come into the AI Profit Boardroom and tell us which win you loved most. We'll help you put the rest to work.