Nous Research merges saved-login access for Hermes Desktop's browser
Nous Research's November 7th merge lets Hermes Desktop reuse signed-in browser sessions or fill logins from Hermes Vault, Bitwarden and 1Password.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: Aligned News — AI Intelligence
Why it matters
Login walls are where many agent demos stop. Hermes is trying to cross that line with password-blind filling and an opt-in copy of the user's real browser session, a design that makes agents more useful while making consent and session control the product's central safety problem.
The useful version of a web agent starts where the public web ends: behind a login. On November 7th, Nous Research (@NousResearch), co-founded by Jeffrey Quesnelle, merged a change into Hermes Agent that lets the desktop in-app browser reuse a signed-in session from a user's real browser profile or fill a login from Hermes Vault, Bitwarden or 1Password, according to [a Hermes Release Watch…
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