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lllyasviel/controlnet vs nousresearch/hermes-agent

nousresearch/hermes-agent shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, hermes-agent shows healthier maintenance signals than controlnet. hermes-agent rates Healthy overall while controlnet rates Mixed. controlnet last saw a commit 2 years ago with 3+ active contributors, while hermes-agent was committed to today with 33+ active contributors. controlnet is Apache-2.0-licensed while hermes-agent is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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lllyasviel/controlnet

Mixed

Stale — last commit 2y ago

MixedDependency

last commit was 2y ago; top contributor handles 98% of recent commits…

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.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 2y ago; no CI workflows detected

  • Stale — last commit 2y ago
  • Small team — 3 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 98% of recent commits
  • No CI workflows detected
  • 3 active contributors
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days; diversify commit ownership (top <90%)
  • 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

controlnethermes-agent
Stars33,869204,243
Last commit2y agotoday
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Open issues46124,041
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage8%1%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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