Articles tagged "AI Agent"

A comprehensive guide to the **Skills & Tools system** in Nous Research's open-source agent Hermes Agent v0.15.2 (and the [Hermes Desktop](../columns/hermes-desktop-nous-research-2026) GUI), grounded in official docs and GitHub releases. Covers **Skills** (on-demand procedural docs) with the three-level Progressive Disclosure loading scheme starting at ~3k tokens, the `SKILL.md` format, the **skills.sh catalog that exploded from 858 to 19,932 entries in v0.15.1**, the standout new skills (`openhands`, `code-wiki`, `web-pentest`), the self-improving loop where the agent creates / patches / edits / deletes its own Skills, and **Tools** — 40+ built-ins like `web_search`, `x_search`, `terminal`, `patch`, `browser_navigate`, `vision_analyze`, `cronjob`, `memory`, `delegate_task`. Also covers MCP **client + server** support, the macOS Computer Use background execution that doesn't move the cursor or switch Spaces (5–20ms/event), and the 25+ messenger gateway (Slack / Discord / Telegram / Teams / WhatsApp / LINE / Feishu / WeCom and more). Ends with **eight category-specific combination patterns** — research, writing, data analysis, coding, customer support, social listening, internal automation, personal work — sized for Japanese enterprise practice.

**Hermes Desktop** by Nous Research is the native desktop app version of Hermes Agent, first demoed by Jensen Huang at the NVIDIA GTC keynote and now in public preview. Released under the MIT license, it supports macOS, Windows, and Linux with voice mode, cron scheduling, Computer Use, and MCP gateway integration — all sharing the same config, skills, and memory as the CLI and TUI. This column covers features, competitive positioning, and key considerations for Japanese enterprise adoption.

At Microsoft Build 2026 Day 1 Keynote on June 2, 2026, the open-source AI agent 'OpenClaw' was officially announced as a Windows-native integration, MXC sandbox-ready runtime, and the foundation for enterprise product Microsoft Scout. This column covers the full paradigm shift — from Agent 365 governance to pricing, competitive comparison, and implications for Japanese enterprises. Note: The OpenClaw discussed here is the OSS by Peter Steinberger and is unrelated to Obright's 'OpenClaw Setup Service'.

On May 29, 2026, OpenAI's Codex desktop app v26.527 brought **Computer Use (Codex driving any app by seeing, clicking, and typing on the screen) to Windows** for the first time — previously macOS-only. This column reads the official Changelog and Codex Computer Use docs as primary sources to cover the Windows-specific foreground-only execution constraint (unlike macOS's parallel background mode), the OS-level PowerShell sandbox, install via Microsoft Store and `winget`, the regional rollout excluding the EEA / UK / Switzerland at launch (**Japan is included**), pricing, comparisons with Anthropic Claude Computer Use, Claude Code, Cursor, and UiPath, and what this means for Japanese enterprises where Windows 11 dominates office endpoints.

The Windsurf (Codeium-origin AI IDE) and Devin (Cognition AI's autonomous engineer) story — grounded in the official [docs.windsurf.com/windsurf/devin](https://docs.windsurf.com/windsurf/devin) page and Cognition's announcement. Covers the July 2025 **"72 hours"** that reshuffled the market (OpenAI's $3B deal lapsed → Google's $2.4B reverse-acquihire of the CEO, co-founder, and ~40 R&D staff → Cognition's acquisition of the remaining assets the next Monday), the April 15, 2026 release of **Windsurf 2.0** with native Devin integration, automatic inclusion across Pro / Max / Teams plans, the $50 GitHub-connection credit, the Agent Command Center bringing local Cascade and cloud Devin into a single Kanban view, head-to-head comparison with Cursor, Claude Code, Antigravity, and Codex Computer Use, and adoption guidance for Japanese enterprises.

A primary-source read on the trend of on-device AI agents driving iOS simulators, anchored on **Argent** — Software Mansion's MCP-based iOS / Android simulator toolkit released May 8, 2026 — paired with Google's **Gemma 4 E4B** edge multimodal model. Covers Argent's actual spec (screenshot-first feedback + accessibility + profiling, MCP server implementation), Gemma 4 E4B's requirements (~2.5 GB model memory, 8 GB+ RAM, native function calling), the fact that Software Mansion's officially published Argent demo actually uses **Gemini 3.5 Flash (cloud)**, the separate on-device Gemma 4 E2B demo on an iPhone 17 Pro, and what this actually means for Japanese mobile QA and internal-app automation.

A grounded read of Google Antigravity 2.0 — announced at Google I/O 2026 — from the official sources. Antigravity has shifted from being a VS Code fork to a four-surface platform (desktop app + Antigravity CLI + SDK + Managed Agents) centered on agent orchestration. Covers the June 18, 2026 Gemini CLI / Code Assist IDE shutdown, Gemini 3.5 Flash as the new default, the $200 AI Ultra tier price cut, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform integration, and the developer backlash over the disappearing IDE experience.

Google I/O 2026's headline announcements are Gemini Spark, a 24/7 personal AI agent bundled into the $99.99/month AI Ultra tier, and Project Genie, which generates a virtual world from nearly 20 years of Street View imagery, available in the $200/month Premium plan. This column organizes the full announcement picture — including the end of Project Mariner, A2A Protocol v1.0 adoption by 150+ organizations, and a restructured subscription stack — for Japanese businesses deciding whether and how to act.

Cursor's May 20, 2026 (3.5) update folds the previously-announced Automations feature (March 5, 2026) into the **Agents Window**, adds **multi-repo and no-repo support, five new marketplace templates, and a 7-day 50%-off promo on agent runs for newly created automations**. This column documents the relationship with Background Agents (an orchestration layer above them), all eight trigger types (schedule, GitHub, GitLab, Slack, Linear, Sentry, PagerDuty, webhooks), the billing model under Private / Team Visible / Team Owned scopes, comparisons with Claude Code Routines / GitHub Actions / Devin, and operational caveats for Japanese enterprises.

Nous Research's open-source self-improving AI agent Hermes Agent gained direct access to xAI's Grok subscriptions (including X Premium and SuperGrok) on May 15, 2026, plus an `x_search` tool that queries X posts, threads, and profiles via the xAI Responses API. This column reads the official sources to lay out how the two features actually work, what's authenticated against what, which Grok model variants are supported, and how the combination realistically fits into business workflows.