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eriklindernoren/ml-from-scratch vs nousresearch/hermes-agent

nousresearch/hermes-agent shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, hermes-agent shows healthier maintenance signals than ml-from-scratch. hermes-agent rates Healthy overall while ml-from-scratch rates Mixed. ml-from-scratch last saw a commit 2 years ago with 9+ active contributors, while hermes-agent was committed to today with 33+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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eriklindernoren/ml-from-scratch

Mixed

Stale — last commit 3y ago

ConcernsDependency

last commit was 3y ago; top contributor handles 91% of recent commits…

MixedFork & modify

no tests detected; no CI workflows detected…

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 3y ago; no CI workflows detected

  • Stale — last commit 3y ago
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 91% of recent commits
  • No CI workflows detected
  • No test directory detected
  • 9 active contributors
  • MIT licensed

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: 1 commit in the last 365 days
  • Fork & modify MixedHealthy if: add a test suite
  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

nousresearch/hermes-agent

Healthy

Healthy across the board

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Last commit today
  • 33+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 31% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

ml-from-scratchhermes-agent
Stars31,436204,243
Last commit2y agotoday
LicenseMITMIT
Open issues7324,041
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage0%1%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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