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 21, 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: Bright sunny architectural photograph of a 1929 Manhattan Art Deco limestone skyscraper corner, with a stylized engaged herm emerging from a vertical pier at a setback, holding an open unrolled scroll across its chest and wearing a geometric laurel diadem of linked nodes, a relief of chained circular nodes carved on the pier below, and the inscription NOUS RESEARCH incised in Deco capitals on the limestone frieze above, crisp raking shadows, deep blue sky, dark steel-framed windows receding into the setbacks.
This Week in Nous Research News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
Teknium reintroduced Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, an alternative to sessions. Each agent profile becomes a "bot" with its own chat, job, description, profile picture and memory, and the bots can talk to one another.
In a short video on group chats in the Hermes Desktop App, tonbistudio showed a team of bots dividing up a large game project among themselves, based on their own experience and specialties, with little input from him.
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
Watching a team of bots split up a large game project based entirely on their own experience and specialties with little input from me is pretty crazy (and just a bit creepy) to watch. I made a short video on group chats in the Hermes Desktop App Bot Mode: – Qwen Bot mentions”
https://x.com/tonbistudio/status/2089226021749030999
Reintroducing Bot Mode for Hermes Agent. Bot Mode is an alternative to sessions , 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 – They maintain their own memory,”
https://x.com/Teknium/status/2089430781668303090
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