During April 2026, Auspic7 focused on enhancing the reliability and policy compliance of the Hermes agent in the NousResearch/hermes-agent repository. They addressed a critical bug in the cron scheduler by updating its logic to suppress content delivery whenever the [SILENT] marker appeared anywhere in a response, not just at the beginning. This change, implemented in Python, involved backend development and careful testing to ensure that scenarios with appended markers were properly handled. By expanding test coverage and documenting the behavior for CI and QA teams, Auspic7 reduced the risk of unintended content leakage and improved the determinism of automated scheduling.