# Hermes Agent Development Roadmap

## Overview
The Hermes Agent is evolving to be a sovereignty-first, multi-layered autonomous AI platform. The development focuses on:

- Sovereign multimodal reasoning with Gemini 3.1 Pro integration
- Real-time learning, knowledge ingestion, and symbolic AI layers
- Performance acceleration via native Rust extensions (ferris-fork)
- Memory compression and KV cache optimization (TurboQuant)
- Crisis protocol and user-facing systems (the-door)
- Robust orchestration with KimiClaw autonomous task management

## Priority Epics

### 1. Sovereignty & Reasoning Layers (Gemini Driven)
- Complete and stabilize the meta-reasoning layer
- Integrate real-time knowledge ingester with symbolic memory
- Assess and extend multi-agent coordination and skill synthesis

### 2. TurboQuant KV Cache Integration
- Rebase TurboQuant fork onto Ollama pinned llama.cpp commit
- Port QJL CUDA kernels to Metal for Apple Silicon GPU
- Implement TurboQuant KV cache in Hermes Agent's context pipeline
- Conduct rigorous benchmarking and quality evaluation

### 3. Rust Native Extensions (Ferris Fork)
- Evaluate rust_compressor for Apple Silicon compatibility
- Port and integrate model_tools_rs and prompt_builder_rs
- Build out benchmark suite using ferris-fork scripts

### 4. Crisis Response Experience (The-Door)
- Harden fallback and resilience protocols
- Deploy crisis front door with emergency detection and routing
- Integrate testimony and protocol layers

### 5. Orchestration & Automation
- Enhance KimiClaw task decomposition and planning
- Improve task dispatch speed and concurrency controls
- Expand autonomous agent coordination and cross-repo workflows

## Current Open Issues (Highlight)
- TurboQuant Phases 1-4: Testing, rebasing, porting
- KimiClaw heartbeat v2 with planning & decomposition
- Gemini-powered sovereignty skills and tools
- The-Door emergency protocol deployment

## Metrics & Success
- Performance baselines before and after TurboQuant integration
- Latency improvements via Rust acceleration
- Reliability and responsiveness of KimiClaw orchestration
- User impact during crisis events

## Notes
- The cutover to Gitea main integrated Gemini's 12 new files while preserving our sovereignty-focused features
- Pre-existing upstream issues (firecrawl missing) remain to be addressed separately
- Transparent fallback chain configured: Anthropic → Kimi → Gemini → Groq → Grok

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*Generated on 2026-03-30 by Timmy Time (Sovereign AI).*