hermes-agent VS star-history

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:

Sorry dude, 84 stars isn't that much. It's a good number, be proud, but I wouldn't go boasting about it like you're some hotshot.

https://www.star-history.com/?repos=kstenerud%2Fyoloai&type=...

Published: May 17, 2026 Data Source: star-history.com Coverage: Weekly trending repositories — 7-day star gain rankings Author: Ryan Xing Tags: GitHub | Open Source | AI Agents | Developer Tools | Trending

I tried to list the competing open-source AI coding agents to compare their popularity over time — opencode wins for now.

https://www.star-history.com/?repos=anthropics%2Fclaude-code...

It's been up for a week and it has 14k stars.

Oh look, they are gaining stars at a rate of pretty much exactly 1400 per day: https://www.star-history.com/?repos=nexu-io%2Fopen-design&ty...

Yeah, nothing shady here at all.

Star history from star-history.com, captured March 10, 2026.

Tools like star-history.com let you look up trends, but you have to visit the site every time. GitHub Apps like Star Notifier automate it, but now a third-party service is handling your tokens. Self-hosted solutions like github-star-notifier need a server running somewhere.

From readme page: https://star-history.com/#localgpt-app/localgpt&Date

We're past euphoria bubble stage, it's now delulu stage. Show them "AI", and they will like any shit.

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