Hermes Agent did not remove Tavily — it removed it only from the zero-config fallback

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Five milestones from the NousResearch/hermes-agent repository trace Tavily's path from its introduction in release v0.4.0 to the August 20, 2026 keyless failover change, checked against the official GitHub repository and releases through 2026-09-01. As of that date, Tavily remains a built-in provider plugin with search, extraction, and crawling; fresh installs without web credentials now default to anonymous Exa or Parallel, split 50/50 per process.

Timeline · Tavily in the Hermes Agent web backend, March–August 2026 · hover a milestone for detail

Tavily-specific changebackend architecture generalized to pluginsdefault / zero-config behavior change

How a fresh install picks a web backend after Aug 20, 2026

Removed from the default, not from Hermes. Tavily is no longer part of the automatic zero-configuration fallback, but stays fully available as an explicitly selectable built-in plugin. github.com

Fresh installs with no web credentials automatically use rate-limited anonymous Exa or Parallel endpoints, chosen randomly 50/50 per process. github.com

Tavily now works keylessly at limited rates when selected with web.backend: tavily or via hermes tools; TAVILY_API_KEY raises the limits. github.com

The backend was generalized into provider plugins — Tavily was the first three-capability plugin — alongside Firecrawl, SearXNG, Exa, Parallel, Brave Search, and DDGS. github.com

Date	Milestone	What changed for Tavily	Source

Method: 6 rows from research on the NousResearch/hermes-agent GitHub repository — one current-finding summary and five milestone records (commits, one pull request, one release) — verified against the official repository and releases through 2026-09-01. Dates are commit timestamps (UTC); two milestones (the plugin-migration PR and the v0.4.0 release) carry no commit timestamp and are placed by release tag and merge order. Nothing was cut.

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