NousResearch Shipped 'Bot Mode' — a Roster of Named Agents That Message Each Other, as a Plugin With No Core Patches

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`NousResearch/Hermes-Bot-Mode` (268 stars, created 2026-08-13, MIT) turns the Hermes desktop into a multi-agent roster where each bot has its own chat, avatar, routines and — the notable part — bot-to-bot messaging. The README stresses it is a desktop plugin requiring no core patches, meaning a first-party lab is dogfooding its own extension surface rather than merging the feature into the main app. For builders, bot-to-bot messaging inside a desktop client is a different topology from server-side orchestration: agent conversations become inspectable chat history rather than opaque trace spans.