Giving back, in the open

We contribute to open-source projects we use and rely on, without charging for it. It is one way we give back to the communities that give us good tools — and a genuine way we keep our own skills sharp against real codebases, real maintainers, and real review standards, not just our own.

Last updated: 2026-09-14

This page shows exactly where each contribution stands — nothing is presented as accepted or delivered until a maintainer has actually merged it. That is the same evidence-based standard we hold our paid delivery work to, and it is deliberately unpolished: a genuine open pull request and a closed one that did not land both count as real, verifiable work, and we show both.

Open, awaiting review

Submitted and currently with the project's maintainers. Not yet merged.

Open, awaiting review NousResearch/hermes-agent #110269

feat(web): make SearXNG HTTP search timeout configurable

Makes the SearXNG HTTP search request timeout a configurable value instead of a fixed constant, so deployments with slower or self-hosted SearXNG instances can tune it.

6 files changed · +230 / -4 · opened 13 Sept 2026

Open, awaiting review NousResearch/hermes-agent #100623

feat(desktop): show project names in session rows

Surfaces the owning project name directly in the desktop session list, so users working across multiple projects can tell sessions apart at a glance.

6 files changed · +190 / -6 · opened 1 Sept 2026

Closed, not merged

Real, tested contributions that were closed without merging. We show these too — they are still genuine evidence of the work, even where a maintainer chose a different direction or the timing didn't fit.

Closed, not merged NousResearch/hermes-agent #97962

fix(cron): recognize Desktop ticker liveness

Fixed a case where the desktop app's own scheduling ticker wasn't recognized as a live heartbeat source, which could cause scheduled jobs to be treated as stalled.

3 files changed · +278 / -53 · opened 29 Aug 2026, closed 30 Aug 2026

Closed, not merged NousResearch/hermes-agent #97965

fix(kanban): make review guidance profile-independent

Removed a hidden dependency on a specific profile's configuration from the kanban review guidance, so it behaves consistently across every profile.

16 files changed · +207 / -55 · opened 29 Aug 2026, closed 30 Aug 2026

Closed, not merged NousResearch/hermes-agent #99320

docs(whatsapp): explain filtered chats and Communities

Documentation clarifying that WhatsApp Communities and certain filtered chats aren't delivered via the gateway, due to platform-level filtering.

2 files changed · +16 / -2 · opened 31 Aug 2026, closed 31 Aug 2026

Closed, not merged amirbena/code-review-skill #124

feat: validate repository references

Added a repository validator that catches broken internal Markdown links and packaged-Skill resource references before they ship, with full test coverage for clean, broken and excluded cases.

4 files changed · +344 / -0 · opened 31 Aug 2026, closed 31 Aug 2026

This list is limited and honest by design. More lands here as we contribute more — including, when they happen, real merges we can point to directly.