Hermes-Lite v0.9.0 — Standalone Release Polish

0.9.0 — Release-quality packaging polish

Highlights

• Hermes-Lite ships as a clean standalone PyPI package — zero Hermes Agent runtime dependency
• Test suite green: 467 collected, 464 passed (3 slow deselected), 0 failed — verified post-bump
• Fresh dist/ build validated with twine check (wheel + sdist)
• Clean working tree: egg-info/, dist/, build/ and transient smoke/latency.json moved to .gitignore
• pyproject.toml metadata hardened: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable, standalone keyword + long description

Changed

• pyproject.toml: version → 0.9.0; Production/Stable classifier; standalone/ddgs keywords
• README.md: test-count badge refreshed to reflect 467-collection baseline
• .gitignore: build artefacts stripped from tracking (no more churn from pip install -e . / python -m build)

Verified

• pytest tests/ -q -m "not slow" → 464 passed, 3 deselected (slow), 0 failed
• python -m build → wheel + sdist produced in dist/
• python -m twine check dist/* → PASSED for both artefacts
• Smoke run against z-ai/glm-5.2 via NVIDIA NIM Free API (see smoke/latency.json, gitignored)

0.8.0 — Decouple from Hermes Agent (Standalone Local-First Agent)