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nousresearch/hermes-agent vs sapientinc/hrm

nousresearch/hermes-agent shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, hermes-agent shows healthier maintenance signals than hrm. hermes-agent rates Healthy overall while hrm rates Mixed. hermes-agent was committed to today with 33+ active contributors, while hrm last saw a commit 2 months ago with 5+ active contributors. hermes-agent is MIT-licensed while hrm is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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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

sapientinc/hrm

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

MixedDependency

no tests detected; no CI workflows detected

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

Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; no CI workflows detected

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 50% of recent commits
  • No CI workflows detected
  • No test directory detected
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 7w ago
  • 5 active contributors
  • Apache-2.0 licensed

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency MixedHealthy if: add a test suite
  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

hermes-agenthrm
Stars204,24312,432
Last committoday2mo ago
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Open issues24,04176
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage1%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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