Five commits landed on Hermes Agent in the last 3 hours, and the theme is “stop the small things from lying to you.” None are headline features — they’re the fixes that decide whether you trust the desktop client and the approval flow.
What Changed
Desktop fallback editor resync (#resync). teknium1 shipped fix(desktop): resync fallback editor after config reload. The fallback editor is what you get when the primary one fails to load — and previously, after a config reload it could sit out of sync with the new settings, silently showing you stale state. Now it re-syncs on reload.
Approval verifier temp cleanup. ansel-f landed fix(approval): allow verifier temp cleanup. The approval verifier was holding onto temp files it had no business keeping; now it can clean them up, which removes a slow leak on long-running approval sessions.
Contributor mapping. teknium1 also added chore(release): map @ansel-f in AUTHOR_MAP — release tooling now correctly attributes ansel-f’s commits, so the changelog stops showing an anonymous author.
Test coverage for the editor. Two older commits (test(desktop): cover the Fallback Models editor and fix(desktop): structured Fallback Models editor, both from Mark Vlcek) round out the fallback-models work — the structured editor now has tests guarding it.
Why It Matters
These are the bugs that don’t show up in a demo but bite you at 2 AM: an editor that looks current but isn’t, and a verifier that hoards temp files until something breaks. If you run Hermes on the desktop client or lean on the approval gate for autonomous work, this batch is worth pulling.
For the broader stability push inside the gateway, pair this with our Hermes gateway runtime context budget coverage.
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