hermes-agent VS realworld

NousResearch publishes a detailed security policy for Hermes Agent. It is unusually clear about what the project treats as load-bearing and what it does not. If you operate Hermes in the cloud, read it first; this post is the operator-friendly companion, not a replacement.

OpenCode seemed perfectly workable as a programming assistant. As personal assistants, they all fall short. It's too difficult to really shape their output.

I was briefly impressed with OpenClaw a few times, but ultimately was turned off by not being able to get the models to stop being so damnably verbose. I thought I made progress for a while by having it tweak its soul, iterate, switch models, iterate, switch models, fuse the results, iterate... but ultimately it's all forgotten early in each session. And then one day it killed itself by rebuilding the container it was inside.

Hermes apparently has some plagiarism issues they're trying to cover up [0] and I was deeply unimpressed with their janky, flickery CLI that force-enables a bulky obnoxious header.

Nanoclaw and nanobot seemed fine, but not notably different. There were some common bugs and glitches that caused some minor data loss while configuring nanobot. After that I just deciding to start hacking my own together.

What I really want in a harness is being able to actually control and rewrite the entire context window, like Zed's Text Threads before they obnoxiously and inexplicably removed what, to me, was their most powerful and distinguishing feature.

[0] https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/issues/10232

I've opened a design discussion to argue this out before anyone writes a line of it, because a surprise PR to a security-sensitive module is the wrong way to start. Feedback from people who've thought about supply-chain trust is what I appreciate.

Source: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent

Hermes Agent is an open-source AI agent framework.

I opened my Hermes Agent logs and found something I did not know existed: an auxiliary: block with twelve background tasks. Compression, web extraction, vision, session search, skills matching — all running silently every time I typed a message. Every task was set to provider: auto. And because I had no API keys for the fallback chain, every one silently fell back to kimi-k2.6, my one-trillion-parameter main model.

The adjacent tools worth tracking: the OpenAI Chrome plugin, BrowserCode, Autobrowse, browser-harness, Pi browser extensions, and Hermes browser skills. [13] [14] [6] [15] [16] [12] The category is logged-in browser work: support queues, internal tools, research, scraping, QA, admin ops, and anything where the useful data sits behind a session.

hermes-telemetry solves both by giving you real-time observability and automatic budget enforcement for Hermes Agent.

If you haven't encountered it yet: Hermes Agent is an open-source agentic system from Nous Research. The key differentiators that caught my attention:

I'm currently running autoresearch against my harness that autonomously builds SaaS against an enforced architecture, and autoresearch managed to improve the harness performance on my 'time-to-Realworld' benchmark which has Claude Code drive the harness to build an implementation of https://github.com/realworld-apps/realworld with the win condition that it must pass my rigorous postman collection + playwright test suites.

⚙️ 19. RealWorld Project Examples 📍 https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld  🌍 Build real apps (Medium clone) using any frontend/backend stack.  ✅ Best For: Full-stack learners

I recently discovered the Realworld DEMO project while wandering through github, it's a spec of a fullstack application DEMO: To implement a medium-like UGC blog site, with implementations of different languages and frameworks, providing:

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RealWorld is an open-source project created by Albert Pai and Eric Simons back in 2016. You can find their announcement here.

Repo: gothinkster/realworld

In light of all this, it became exceedingly clear that someone else needed to step in and help. Why not me? Well, it can be me. And, after 3 months of development, I am happy to announce (again) dwayne/elm-conduit (demo), an open-source Elm SPA for RealWorld's Medium.com clone.