v0.21.0

Ollama Releases / 4/17/2026

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Key Points

  • v0.21.0 introduces a “Hermes Agent with Ollama” that learns alongside the user and automatically creates skills to better support their workflows.
  • The update positions the agent as useful for research and engineering tasks, emphasizing improved assistance for ongoing work.
  • It specifically recommends using Nous Research’s self-improving AI agent in combination with Ollama.
  • The “What’s Changed” section indicates that the release includes a launch-related change to skip rewriting unchanged integration configuration, associated with a specific Ollama PR (#15491).
  • Additional changes are mentioned in the release notes (e.g., an item starting with “launch/opencla”), but the provided excerpt cuts off before details are fully shown.

Hermes Agent with Ollama

ollama launch hermes

Hermes learns with you, automatically creating skills to better serve your workflows. Great for research and engineering tasks.

Use Nous Research's self-improving AI agent with Ollama.
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What's Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: v0.20.8-rc0...v0.21.0

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