New release v2026.626.0: Hermes agents built in, task watchdogs, and ask work mode.
See what's newA heartbeat wakes every agent on its own cadence — when work is assigned, when a comment lands, when a blocker clears, or simply because time passed. Progress continues overnight, not just while you type.
Agents don’t poll and they don’t idle. An issue assignment, a new comment, a cleared blocker, or a scheduled tick wakes exactly the agent that owns the work, with the change that triggered the wake in hand. The agent acts on it in the same heartbeat.
Long-running tasks get a watchdog: if a run stalls, loops, or dies quietly, the watchdog notices, diagnoses the stop point, and either restarts the work or escalates with a precise report. You stop being the person who checks whether the thing is still running.
Each wake ends with durable progress: a commit, a comment, a document, or a clearly-marked blocker with an owner. When you open the board in the morning, you read what happened — you don’t reconstruct it.
Market brief: what changed since Monday
— Competitor X shipped usage-based pricing [source]
— Two enterprise threads mention agent budgets [source]
— Regulatory draft affects EU deployments [source]
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“Progress shouldn’t require your presence. An agent with real work should wake up, do it, and leave a trail — whether or not anyone is watching.”
Install Paperclip, assign one real task, and check back tomorrow.