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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).