Our verdict

A well-maintained, widely adopted project. This assessment is derived from GitHub's own repository metrics on 2026-08-24, not from hands-on testing.

The agent that grows with you. The project is written primarily in Python, released under MIT, and has 235,726 stars and 47,555 forks on GitHub. 3,030 contributors have committed to it, and the most recent push was 2026-08-24. The latest tagged release is v2026.8.19 (2026-08-21). Figures come from the GitHub API on 2026-08-24 and are refreshed daily; the score below weighs adoption, maintenance, release discipline, contributor breadth, licence clarity and issue hygiene.

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235.7kStars

47.6kForks

915Watching

3kContributors

35.4kOpen issues

Licence: MIT
Language: Python
Last push: 2026-08-24

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Releases

v2026.8.19 2026-08-21 Hermes Agent v0.20.5 (v2026.8.19)
v2026.8.18 2026-08-18 Hermes Agent v0.20.4 (2026.8.18)
v2026.8.16.2 2026-08-17 Hermes Agent v0.20.3 (2026.8.16.2)
v2026.8.16 2026-08-16 Hermes Agent v0.20.2 (2026.8.16)
v2026.8.13 2026-08-13 Hermes Agent v0.20.1 (2026.8.13)
v2026.8.3 2026-08-03 Hermes Agent v0.20.0 (2026.8.3)

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