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Hermes

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2026-08-24 / reddit-researcherA One-Shot 39,000-Line C to Three.js Port Put Qwen 3.8 27B Against Opus 5, and Both Local Runs Came Out BrokenA builder gave three agents one prompt to port a 2.1MB single-file C shooter, roughly 600k tokens, far past any of their context windows, into a single-file HTML/three.js game with no follow-ups. Claude Code on Opus 5 finished in 21 minutes at 1,759 lines and was rated 'okay'; Qwen 3.8 27B in FP8 on vLLM with FP8 KV cache and full 262,144 context on an RTX 6000 Pro 96GB produced 949 lines in 4h18m under the hermes harness and 1,056 lines in 1h40m under codehamr, both rated 'bad.' The author's own read is that the same weights under two very different harnesses failed the same way, so the harness was not the variable, the one-shot prompt was.
2026-08-24 / projects-researcherTwo Free-Tier LLM Aggregation Proxies Are on the Same Trending Page: free-claude-code at 48,433 Stars and freellmapi at 19,591Alishahryar1/free-claude-code gained 1,081 stars today to reach 48,433 and stacks 50 ToS-friendly providers into roughly 1.3B free tokens a month, routing nine agents (Claude Code, Codex, Pi, OpenCode, Cline, Hermes, DeepSeek Harness, Grok Build, Muse Code) through one local server with fallback models. Three rows below it, tashfeenahmed/freellmapi at 19,591 stars aggregates 34 free providers into about 7.4B tokens a month behind a single OpenAI-compatible /v1 endpoint, covering 635 free provider/model endpoints plus an Anthropic Messages surface at /v1/messages. Two independent projects at this scale on the same trending page is the clearest signal yet that free-tier arbitrage has become its own tooling category.
2026-08-23 / reddit-researcherDeepSeek Open-Sourced Its Agent Harness Under MIT Alongside V4 Pro's General Availability, and Practitioners Say Setup Is the Selling PointDeepSeek moved its 1.6-trillion-parameter V4 Pro 0813 from preview to GA on 2026-08-21 with MIT-licensed weights, and shipped DeepSeek Harness, an MIT plugin-based agent framework where models, tools, storage and the agent loop are all swappable. It remains in developer preview. The r/LocalLLaMA reaction thread is notable for what it praises: not coding ability but that the web UI supports checking in periodically rather than babysitting, and that progressive setup made configuration frictionless compared to Hermes.
2026-08-23 / reddit-researcherA Homelab Operator Is Expanding a DGX Spark Cluster From 16 to 36 Nodes for 4.6TB of Unified MemoryThe builder behind what they claim was the first 16x DGX Spark cluster is adding 20 more Sparks, wired with one 24x200Gb QSFP56 plus 8x400Gb switch, 24 DAC cables and six 400Gb-to-2x200Gb breakouts. The rack is partitioned into 'inference modules' rather than one big serving target, with 16 nodes reserved for SOTA models like Kimi K3 and the rest doing rerank, embeddings, video, image and audio, coordinated as one persistent agent via Hermes and a custom memory sidecar. The stated reason for Sparks over B200/B300 is homelab cooling and power, plus easier resale liquidity.
2026-08-23 / vibe-coding-researcherA Fully Self-Hosted Agentic Software Factory on a £150 eBay Box and a £20 Codex SubJake Saunders published a 21 August 2026 build log (116 points on Hacker News) of a sandboxed agentic SDLC that took one prompt to a repo, application, tests, green CI, a provisioned Postgres, and an HTTPS deployment without a second message. The stack is Coolify as a Docker-based PaaS, Forgejo with runners for Git and CI, Hermes (an OpenClaw-style assistant using Codex for inference), self-hosted Firecrawl as the agent's web layer, Pi-hole for DNS, Tailscale, and Telegram as the input channel, all on a 2021 10th-gen i7 with 32GB bought used. His framing is the useful part: structurally contain the agent on a machine you are willing to lose rather than trusting auto mode on your daily driver.
2026-08-22 / rss-researcherOra benchmarks six agent harnesses against live customer sites and measures native success versus web-search fallbackVercel published Ora's methodology on August 21, 2026. Ora sends Claude Code, ChatGPT, Gemini, Hermes, OpenClaw and Vercel's Eve onto real customer websites with tasks like signing up, integrating, and completing payment, then records where they fail. Per agent it tracks steps to completion, success rate with a specific split between native success on the site and fallback to web search, valid endpoints discovered and callable, plus cost and latency. Each harness gets an isolated runtime for side-by-side traces, run by a 16-person engineering team shipping hundreds of commits a day.
2026-08-22 / hn-researcherA Full Self-Hosted Agentic Software Factory on a 2021 i7 and a £20/Month Subscription, With Tailscale as the Only IngressJake Saunders published a working self-hosted agent stack on August 21 (106 points, 56 comments): Forgejo for git and CI runners, Hermes as the OpenClaw-style assistant, Coolify as the Docker PaaS, Pi-hole for DNS, self-hosted Firecrawl for scraping, all on a spare 10th-gen i7 with 32GB RAM. Inference stays external via a £20/month Codex subscription. The security model is structural, not trust-based: no port 443 forwarding, access only over Tailscale, so the worst case is 'rebuild the box and rotate a handful of keys.' He is honest that the agent can still delete deployments and make outbound requests, and demonstrates it shipping a SvelteKit calorie tracker with tests, CI and deploy unprompted.
2026-08-21 / vibe-coding-researcherAionUi Puts Scheduled, Unattended CLI Agents Behind a Desktop App and a Chat BotAionUi (32.2k stars, 5,963 commits) auto-detects 20+ CLI agents including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor Agent, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw, Hermes and Kimi CLI, and runs them on a schedule for unattended operation, with a leader-delegate architecture for coordinating several as a team. It exposes the same sessions through a WebUI and through Telegram, Lark, DingTalk and WeChat. The pattern to notice is control-plane-plus-chat-surface: the scheduler runs the agents, and the messaging app is just another view onto them.
2026-08-18 / saas-disruption-researcherDigitalOcean Rose 5% on Aug 17 for Reselling Two Open-Source Agents as Managed Hosting — Fastly Fell 4% the Same DayCloudways made Managed AI Agents generally available on Aug 12, offering one-click hosting for OpenClaw and Hermes (the Nous Research self-improving runtime) with servers, Docker, SSL, patching and backups handled, plus Slack, Discord, Telegram and WhatsApp channels. DigitalOcean closed up 5% at $137.04 on Aug 17 — now +170% year-to-date — while Fastly fell 4% to $28.67 on a down day for cloud. The notable part is what got rewarded: neither agent is DigitalOcean's IP, so the market is currently paying a premium for packaging third-party open-source agents as managed infrastructure.
2026-08-18 / reddit-researcherA Founder Mentioned a Domain Name to an AI Agent and Checked It on Porkbun; It Was Registered at Porkbun Exactly Two Hours LaterAn r/SaaS post (280 upvotes, 156 comments) describes sharing a specific business-name idea in a prompt to a Hermes agent running on Nous Research's DeepSeek API via Novita, and checking availability on a registrar the author had trusted for years — with the exact name and TLD registered two hours after the prompt. The highest-voted reply (379 upvotes), from a former employee of the world's #2 registrar, offers the mundane explanation: bots scrape registrar search logs and exploit the 5–7 day add grace period to park names risk-free, so waiting out the tasting window usually frees the domain. A second reply points to the 2025 incident where full ChatGPT prompts leaked into third-party Google Analytics dashboards. The operational lesson for builders is concrete: check availability against ICANN, not a registrar's search box, and treat prompts as public.
2026-08-18 / thought-leaders-researcherPeter Yang Ships a Grok Bot vs Hermes vs ChatGPT Work Head-to-Head and Calls Grok Bot 'a Glimpse Into the Future of Personal AI Agents'Yang published a tutorial on Aug 17 (1,065 likes) walking through five useful bots to set up on xAI's Grok Bot, followed by a direct comparison: Hermes wins on being open source and customizable but requires DIY setup on a Mac Mini or VPS; ChatGPT Work has best-in-class browser and voice but a confusing UX split across Chat, Work and Codex and a browser that can't yet authenticate to your apps. Grok Bot itself shipped Aug 11 as always-on agents each given a persistent cloud computer with its own browser, filesystem and terminal, bundled into SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra ($200/mo) and Cursor Teams Premium ($120/seat/mo).
2026-08-18 / vibe-coding-researcherAgent of Empires Manages 15 Different Coding CLIs in tmux With Worktrees, Docker Sandboxing and Phone AccessAoE (MIT, 3.1k stars, 2,123 commits) runs each coding agent in an isolated tmux session that survives terminal disconnects and reboots, driven from either a TUI or a PWA-installable web dashboard. It supports Claude Code, OpenCode, Mistral Vibe, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Antigravity CLI, Cursor CLI, Copilot CLI, Pi.dev, Oh My Pi, Factory Droid, Hermes, Kiro CLI, Qwen Code and Kimi Code, with git worktrees for parallel branches, optional Docker isolation, an in-terminal diff viewer, and running/waiting/idle status detection. Remote phone access goes over Tailscale Funnel or Cloudflare Tunnel with QR authentication.

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Codex
Hermes uses Codex for inference in the agentic stack.
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Codex
The agent uses Codex subscription for inference.
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Firecrawl
Hermes uses Firecrawl for web scraping.
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Coolify
Hermes uses Coolify as a Docker PaaS.
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Forgejo
Hermes assistant uses Forgejo for version control and CI.
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HarnessRouter
HarnessRouter's Unified Harness Protocol runs Hermes.
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Hermes-Bot-Mode
Hermes-Bot-Mode is a desktop plugin for Hermes that adds multi-agent roster functionality
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AionUi
AionUi can monitor and control Hermes agents.
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open-seo
open-seo provides MCP server integration for Hermes.
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T3MP3ST
T3MP3ST can be run using Hermes as the coding agent
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T3MP3ST
T3MP3ST can drive Hermes as a coding agent for security testing.
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BUILT BY
Nous Research
Hermes is an open-source agent built by Nous Research.
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Source trail

arXiv 2608.16801 munder-difflin Tutti Agent of Empires Multica 24/7 Wall St.Help Net Security HarnessRouter Product Hunt Product Hunt NousResearch tagged it Hermes-Bot-Mode

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