Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for Nous Research for the week ending August 14, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Nano Banana 2.1.
Category Cover Image Prompt: A single polished obsidian geometric node hovering just above a glass-still mist-covered lake at early dawn, impossibly fine silver filament threads trailing from it and dissolving into pale indigo fog, soft diffused light with one thin thread of warm gold on the node's edge, vast empty sky filling two thirds of the frame with the bold title text 'Nous Research' set cleanly in the open space, photorealistic magazine-cover minimalist still life, quiet symmetry, long-exposure calm.
This Week in Nous Research News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
- Cheaper browsing: Teknium said the new Browser-Use CLI 3.0 backend cuts token spend by about 60% on browser tasks. Two changes did it: the tool schema shrank from eight tools to one, and the agent now drives the CLI with code instead of many separate actions.
- More control over agents: Hermes Agent can now steer, end, and read live transcripts of its sub-agents while they work. A one-day public beta of Bot Mode also gives each agent profile its own chat, and the plugin surface was expanded.
- Runs on modest hardware: A community member got Hermes Agent running on a 2GB Raspberry Pi 4. Another user paired DeepSeek V4 Flash with a small local vision model, LFM2.5-VL-3B, so the agent could browse using only local vision.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to Nous Research
New in Hermes Agent: Your Hermes can now steer, end, and read live transcripts, of what your sub-agents are doing. Let your agent have full control over all of it’s subagents while they work async!”
https://x.com/Teknium/status/2087986084592709814
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lighting is available on Ollama! It’s a 30B model made for always-on agents. All local. Claude Code ollama launch claude –model nemotron-3.5-lightning Hermes Agent ollama launch hermes –model nemotron-3.5-lightning OpenClaw ollama launch openclaw”
https://x.com/ollama/status/2087208006455111779
We ran DeepSeek V4 Flash through 4 more agent harnesses (Hermes Agent, Pi Agent, Prime Agent, Deep Agents) on 30 challenging agentic tasks. Pi Agent was the cheapest harness and passed the most tasks 🧵🧵”
https://x.com/composio/status/2086814488162972027
DeepSeek V4 Flash + LFM2.5-VL-3B as the vision auxiliary in Hermes Agent is a deadly combo. DeepSeek handles the agentic work. LFM2.5-VL-3B gives it the eyes. I told it to use only its local vision model to browse. It read Hacker News, picked the top story, opened the eclipse”
https://x.com/noctus91/status/2087559912687862240
someone in the community put Hermes Agent on a Raspberry Pi 4 with 2GB of RAM. the Pi 4 is a credit-card-sized computer that costs about $50 and draws a few watts. 2GB is less memory than most phones have. it works because of how Hermes Agent splits the job: the agent runs on”
https://x.com/witcheer/status/2087509716746326124
Hermes 🤝 Browser Use”
https://x.com/browser_use/status/2086882292761571758
I told you we’d get you 60% less token spend on browser use! Thanks to @browser_use and their new backend for driving the browser, Browser-Use CLI 3.0, we got it!”
https://x.com/Teknium/status/2086881909209252209
Introducing Bot Mode for Hermes Agent. Bot Mode is an alternative to sessions mode, where you have one chat with each agent profile, or “bot”. These bots can be given jobs, descriptions, profile pics, and communicate with your other bots! For one day we will do a public beta”
https://x.com/Teknium/status/2088003994904113614
New in Hermes Agent: Have Hermes do an operation or set of operations on a website, and it can watch the api calls made there – then can create a static api for your agent or scripts it builds to use forevermore with this new optional skill! Just run: `hermes skills install”
https://x.com/Teknium/status/2087686461822996905
Thanks Ahmad for showing some new improvements that could be saving Hermes Agent users a ton of tokens and time! All improvements to the read tool we didn’t have, now in Hermes”
https://x.com/Teknium/status/2086702328024125926
We achieve this savings in two ways – the tool schema went from 8 tools, using a lot of context, to one, and the new tool has the agent drive the CLI with code, instead of a variety of individual actions. In our in house tests the total trajectory uses on average ~60% less”
https://x.com/Teknium/status/2086882821910782270
We have massively expanded the hermes agent plugin surface. Too much to list here, so I’ll link the tracking issue with all the details:
https://x.com/Teknium/status/2087947369229009119
Moving Hermes profiles (skills, memories, etc.) from one device to another has never been easier, with just two commands (/export and /import) I made a short video showing how to do this, exporting my default agent from my PC to my DGX Spark under a new name. So I can continue”
https://x.com/tonbistudio/status/2087642578128921068
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