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DeepSeek Harness vs Hermes Agent

DeepSeek Harness and Hermes Agent side by side on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar, on Oct 29, 2026: DeepSeek Harness is 💤 Quiet with a hype score of 23 and Hermes Agent is 💤 Quiet with 1. The radar’s curated relations list them as competitors.

Data note: 7 of the last 14 days were not collected live. No collection ran on Oct 22–Oct 28, or a later run refilled those days at once. Every hype score is measured against the 14 days before it and those days are thin, so the scores, the stages and the week-over-week theme trends may read higher than they are until they leave that window on Nov 12.

At a glance

MeasureDeepSeek HarnessHermes Agent
Stage💤 Quiet💤 Quiet
Hype score23.10.8
7-day change+2.6−14.2
In hype sincenot in hype nownot in hype now
Peak, 30 days31.7 on Oct 20, 202640.2 on Oct 8, 2026
Stories in 7 days2513
Share of voice, 7 days0.2%0.1%
Sources above normal2 of 180 of 19
Category🤖 Agents🤖 Agents

Hype score, last 30 days

Both hype scores by day, newest first; on the page’s chart, DeepSeek Harness is the solid line and Hermes Agent the dashed one.

DayDeepSeek HarnessHermes Agent
Oct 29, 202623.10.8
Oct 28, 202611.61.1
Oct 27, 20269.91.6
Oct 26, 20269.51
Oct 25, 202620
Oct 24, 20269.80
Oct 23, 20269.81.2
Oct 22, 202620.515
Oct 21, 20261015
Oct 20, 202631.713.8
Oct 19, 2026193.8
Oct 18, 202617.20.6
Oct 17, 202624.815.2
Oct 16, 202612.111.6
Oct 15, 20263.928.8
Oct 14, 20266.128.8
Oct 13, 202612.727.6
Oct 12, 2026329.8
Oct 11, 20261.126.7
Oct 10, 20264.114.8
Oct 9, 202611.214.2
Oct 8, 20263.740.2
Oct 7, 2026024.6
Oct 6, 2026016.7
Oct 5, 20260.514.7
Oct 4, 20261.114.9
Oct 3, 20261.416.3
Oct 2, 202622.424
Oct 1, 2026026.2
Sep 30, 20263.527.1

Shared themes

What the stories of both topics in the last 7 days are about, as classified by the Jev model (a story can carry several themes):

DeepSeek Harness: stories behind it

  1. DeepSeek V5 spotted in DeepSeek Harness tests — are we getting closer to a release? — Reddit (r/DeepSeek) · Oct 28 · score 436 · 26 comments
  2. deepseek-harness: Opensource AI Agent Harness [264k Stars] — Reddit (r/DeepSeek) · Oct 28 · score 1 · 0 comments
  3. DeepSeek Harness is breaking Unity Projects — Reddit (r/DeepSeek) · Oct 30
  4. I Tested deepseek-harness — Here's What You Need to Know — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Oct 29 · score 0 · 0 comments
  5. I Tried deepseek-harness — Here's What You Need to Know — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Oct 29 · score 0 · 0 comments

Hermes Agent: stories behind it

  1. Cách cài AI tại nhà Bảo Mật & Miễn Phí với Local AI (Ollama + Hermes Agent) — Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) (Huy Dao Podcast) · Oct 29
  2. Hermes Paper Harness: Native SwiftUI iPhone Client for Hermes Agent — Hacker News (apps.apple.com) · Oct 28 · score 1 · 0 comments
  3. Hermes Agent Ran Unattended Against Thai Finance Ministry — Google News (RSS) (OrcaRouter) · Oct 30
  4. DeepSeek "Personality" — Reddit (r/DeepSeek) · Oct 28 · score 22 · 17 comments
  5. 10 coding agents, one Qwen 3.8 27B, same llama-server: tokens and cache reuse differ more than pass rates — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Oct 30

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