Hermes V0.16: Email MCP, Voice Mode, Jarvis, and Multi-Agent Kanban

Key Takeaways

• Connect email to Hermes via MCP: add an email-inbox MCP in the MCPs tab and your agent can send, read, and organize messages as a persistent 24/7 assistant — the video shows a real email sent from Hermes to a separate agent-managed inbox
• MiniMax M3 (launched June 2026, 1M token context) powers the live voice Talk Mode — select it as the active model and switch to Talk mode for real-time back-and-forth conversation with your agent
• Hermes Jarvis is a voice-command overlay trained to respond in a configured voice and perform computer-use actions — say "open Google" and it opens your browser; it can also type commands and manage the OS hands-free
• Goal mode lets you assign a long-horizon task; Hermes gets up to 50 turns to complete it and a built-in judge skill keeps iterating until it confirms the goal is achieved — useful for overnight or background tasks
• The Kanban board view supports multi-agent orchestration: the primary Hermes profile triages a task, then delegates sub-tasks to other profiles, with progress visible across board columns in real time