Hermes-Workspace v2.1.x Patch Notes

Hermes-Workspace 2.1 is the first real Swarm release, turning Hermes-Workspace from a single chat surface into a multi-agent control plane for persistent Hermes workers.
Highlights

Swarm, built into Hermes-Workspace

New Swarm orchestration surface inside Hermes-Workspace
Built-in worker coordination, assignment, runtime visibility, and review flow
Persistent multi-agent workflow instead of disposable one-shot subprocesses
Persistent worker runtime

Swarm workers are designed around persistent Hermes sessions
Better tmux-backed runtime behavior for live worker sessions
Cleaner dispatch flow into active worker sessions
Better alignment between worker runtime, task flow, and visible UI state
Reports, routing, and operator flow

Worker dispatch, checkpointing, and review flow improved
Better task routing and reviewer/inbox-style orchestration
Improved runtime and worker status visibility
Better Swarm UI polish around planning, cards, and orchestration surfaces
Hermes naming + runtime cleanup

Cleaned up shipped repo/UI naming so Hermes branding is much more consistent
Follow-up runtime cleanup to align worker/session flow with Hermes Agent
Improved path/config/session handling around Hermes-oriented roots and runtime assumptions
What changed across 2.1

Swarm and Swarm2 UI improvements
better worker controls
cleaner routing and orchestration flow
improved live-session dispatch behavior
better persistent worker semantics
improved HERMES_HOME / ~/.hermes alignment
cleaner runtime metadata and health reporting
reduced hardcoded local path assumptions
added release docs and integration detection groundwork
Architecture direction