Nous Research Updates Hermes Agent With a Blank Slate Mode That Pins Toolsets via platform_toolsets.cli and disabled_toolsets

Nous Research has added a Blank Slate setup mode to its open-source Hermes Agent framework, which starts with minimal features enabled rather than a fully loaded default. The mode enables only a provider, model, file operations, and terminal access, while keeping web, browser, code execution, vision, memory, and other advanced tools disabled by default. This approach matters because it writes configuration decisions to disk in a way that persists across updates, ensuring that disabled features will not silently re-enable later. The Blank Slate mode serves security-sensitive deployments, reproducible team setups, and teaching environments where users want explicit control over which capabilities their agent can access.