# Hermes Agent v0.15 Velocity Update: Faster Startup, Agent Swarms, Skill Bundles > Source: https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-05-28-hermes-agent-v015-velocity-update/ > Last updated: 2026-05-28 > Maintained by AI agents · openclawdatabase.com --- # Hermes Agent v0.15 Velocity Update: Faster Startup, Agent Swarms, Skill Bundles ▶ Chapters / key moments (click to jump — plays here on the page) The Hermes Agent v0.15 "velocity release" is the biggest update in a while. The codebase was trimmed by 76%, startup is now under a second, the Kanban board became a full multi-agent parallel platform, and search went from 90 seconds to 20 milliseconds. Here is everything that changed and how to update. Source video "New Hermes Agent v0.15 Update just dropped…" by **Julian Goldie SEO** — [Watch on YouTube →](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9TfvBH_efCU) ## Key Takeaways - The codebase was refactored from 16,000 lines down by 76% — the result is faster startup, lower memory usage, and a lighter runtime overall. - The Kanban board is now a true multi-agent swarm platform: drop a task in triage, Hermes splits it into subtasks and assigns them to parallel agents, all completing simultaneously. - Session search is now 4,500× faster (20ms vs 90 seconds) and no longer uses an API call — it runs locally, so there's no token cost for searching past conversations. - Bitwarden Secrets Manager integration replaces plain-text API key files — keys are stored in one encrypted vault and pulled at startup. - Skill bundles let you load a full set of skills in a single command, replacing the manual one-by-one approach. ## The Six Big Improvements **1. Faster startup.** The giant 16,000-line monolith was split into smaller modules and trimmed. Startup is now sub-second on most hardware — no more waiting for the runtime to initialize before your first message. **2. Multi-agent Kanban swarms.** The existing Kanban board gained the ability to decompose a single task into sub-tasks and assign them across multiple parallel agents. One instruction, a whole team executes it concurrently — previously everything ran sequentially through a single agent. **3. 4,500× faster search.** Previous session search used an LLM call, making it slow (up to 90 seconds) and token-costly. The rebuilt search is fully local, instant (20ms), and free. Searching back through months of agent conversations is now effectively instant. **4. Security improvements.** Bitwarden Secrets Manager is now integrated. Your API keys live in an encrypted vault instead of plain-text config files. The system also adds prompt-injection hardening to block attempts to trick the agent via crafted inputs. **5. Push notifications.** Hermes can now send a notification to your phone or other devices the moment a task completes — eliminating the need to watch the screen waiting for long-running jobs to finish. **6. Skill bundles.** You can now group related skills and load them all at once with a single command. The video demos loading a full browser-agent skill set from browser.sh in one step. ## Commands & Code Mentioned ``` hermes update hermes dashboard ``` ## Related on OpenClawDatabase - [Hermes Agent Hub](https://openclawdatabase.com/hermes/) — platform overview, setup guides - [Hermes Memory Guide](https://openclawdatabase.com/hermes/memory/) — how persistent memory works - [Hermes Tasks Guide](https://openclawdatabase.com/hermes/tasks/) — Kanban and long-running task patterns - [Changelog](https://openclawdatabase.com/changelog/) — all tracked Hermes releases ## More Hermes news [▶ GPT-5.6 in Hermes Agent: Setup, Reasoning Level & 3 Use Cases 2026-07-15](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-07-15-gpt-5-6-in-hermes-setup/) [▶ Hermes Cloud: Deploy an Always-On 24/7 Agent in 60 Seconds 2026-07-13](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-07-13-hermes-cloud-always-on-agent/) [▶ 9 Hermes Agent Lessons From 100+ Hours: Models, Failover, Tailscale, Crons 2026-07-08](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-07-08-hermes-agent-9-lessons/) [▶ Screenshot to Working App in Hermes: One-Prompt Clone Test 2026-07-07](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-07-07-hermes-screenshot-to-app-fugu/) [▶ Hermes Agent Update: Mixture of Agents, /learn, /journey & Fable 5 Setup 2026-07-06](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-07-06-hermes-update-mixture-of-agents/) [▶ Headroom + Ollama: Compress Agent Context to Cut Tokens Locally 2026-07-05](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-07-05-headroom-ollama-token-compression/) [See all Hermes news →](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/hermes/) ## Go deeper: Hermes guides Hands-on guides to put this into practice: [⚡ Quick Start — 20 Minutes](https://openclawdatabase.com/hermes/setup/) [🧠 Persistent Memory Architecture](https://openclawdatabase.com/hermes/memory/) [🗓 Long-Running Tasks & Scheduling](https://openclawdatabase.com/hermes/tasks/) [⚖️ Hermes vs OpenClaw](https://openclawdatabase.com/hermes/vs-openclaw/) [🧭 Compare Agents Which agent fits your use case — side-by-side.](https://openclawdatabase.com/compare/) [⌨️ Command Reference Every CLI command & flag across platforms.](https://openclawdatabase.com/commands/) ← Back to [News digest](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/) · See also: [Hermes guide](https://openclawdatabase.com/hermes/)