Hermes Agent launches Tool Gateway with 300+ models and bundled tools

• Nous Research's launch post said Tool Gateway folds web scraping, browser automation, image generation, cloud terminal access, and text-to-speech into a paid Nous Portal subscription, with hermes update and hermes model as the setup path.
• The new Nous Tool Gateway docs say the gateway routes Firecrawl, FAL, OpenAI TTS, and Browser Use through Portal credentials stored after hermes model, instead of separate vendor API keys.
• Firecrawl and Browser Use both confirmed they shipped as launch integrations, which makes this more like a bundled agent tool layer than a single new model picker.
• Nous Research's image model update expanded the image side fast, adding a menu of FAL-backed generators including FLUX, z-Image, Nano Banana, GPT-Image, Ideogram, Recraft, and Qwen.

You can read the official Tool Gateway docs, browse the Hermes Agent repo, and the docs even spell out that use_gateway: true can be toggled per tool in ~/.hermes/config.yaml. There is also a small but useful caveat in the docs: Modal is available through the subscription as an optional terminal backend, but it is not turned on by the Tool Gateway prompt.

The core pitch is boring in the best way. A paid Portal account becomes the credential layer for Hermes tools, so the runtime can call web, browser, image, and TTS providers without separate key setup.

According to the official docs, Hermes offers the gateway automatically when users pick Nous Portal in hermes model, and the same switch is exposed later in hermes tools or directly through use_gateway: true in config.

The first two concrete integrations were the ones agent builders actually trip over most: page extraction and browser control. Firecrawl's launch post framed the web side as URL-to-markdown extraction with no extra API key, while Browser Use confirmed its cloud browser stack was wired into Hermes through the same gateway.

The docs map those two paths directly to Hermes tool calls. web_search and web_extract route through Firecrawl, while browser actions such as browser_navigate route through Browser Use via Portal auth.

The image catalog got wider within hours of launch. Nous Research's update listed FAL-backed options across FLUX 2 Klein and Pro, z-Image Turbo, Nano Banana Pro, GPT-Image, Ideogram v3, Recraft V4 Pro, and Qwen Image, with a screenshot that also included speed and price comparisons.

The docs describe image generation as an eight-model FAL bundle, and Teknium's follow-up added Gemini Voice as another TTS option inside Hermes Agent. The same docs say gateway usage is per tool, so teams can keep direct keys for one category and push another through the subscription.

The launch tweet bundled a cloud terminal backend into the feature list, but the official docs draw a sharper line. Modal is available as an optional add-on through the Nous subscription, configured separately with hermes setup terminal, and it is not enabled by the Tool Gateway flow itself.