--- title: "Hermes Agent — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/hermes_agent as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Hermes Agent (🤖 Agents) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › Hermes Agent Hermes Agent is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 17 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 15 points higher than 7 days before. Its attention is within the normal range across the monitored sources. Hermes Agent: Nous Research's open-source (MIT), self-hosted personal agent, with persistent memory and skills it creates on its own; a direct rival to OpenClaw. First seen on DEV Community (dev.to) · Sep 22 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the last 14 days. Why this stage: within the normal range across monitored sources. - **Stage:** 💤 Quiet — within the normal range across the monitored sources - **Hype score:** 16.9 / 100 · +1.7 in 1 day · +15.3 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 18 on Sep 25, 2026 - **Category:** 🤖 Agents - **Part of:** [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md) - **Official site:** [nousresearch.com](https://nousresearch.com) - **Sources above normal:** 1 of 26 scoring it (1 independent family) - **Stories in 7 days:** 76 - **Share of voice:** 0.1% of the radar’s attention in 7 days ## Where the attention comes from “Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0. | Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Wikipedia | pageviews | 352 | 72 | 4.8× | yes | 80% | | Google Trends (search interest) | search interest | 5.1 (Sep 25) | 3.4 | 1.4× | no | 9.9% | | Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) | items | 2 | 0 | — | no | 8% | | PyPI (downloads) | downloads | 5,260 | 5,093 | 1× | no | 1.6% | | Google News (RSS) | articles | 3 | 2 | 1.3× | no | 0% | | Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | DEV Community (dev.to) | items | 1 | 1 | 1× | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [ufo-ai/ufo-core: Business agent operating system](https://github.com/ufo-ai/ufo-core) — GitHub (ufo-ai) · Sep 27 · score 79 2. [Gemma 4 26b and qwen 3.8 27b preliminary Healthbench scores](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLM/comments/1wofq79/) — Reddit (r/LocalLLM) · Sep 23 · score 36 · 21 comments 3. [Run Hermes Agent Inside Docker: A Safer Setup for Autonomous AI Agents 🐳](https://dev.to/vivek_shetye/run-hermes-agent-inside-docker-a-safer-setup-for-autonomous-ai-agents-2992) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 22 · score 7 · 1 comment 4. [Most agent frameworks start fresh every run. Hermes doesn't. That's the whole story — but let me show...#ai #agents #mcp #productivity #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #communit…](https://www.urbanmind.net/display/f7dd981d-f5a18257-e23cc8416db8db7a) — Mastodon (fediverse) (www.urbanmind.net) · Sep 23 · score 3 · 0 comments 5. [Build Your First AI Agent](https://luma.com/h2ng4r36) — Luma (SF AI events) (Working Sessions) · score 0 6. [Qwen3.8 flash next + exllamav3 + hermes is amazing](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wqn378/) — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Sep 26 · score 15 · 25 comments 7. [Mac Studio M5 Ultra vs RTX PRO 4500 for local LLMs — which would you choose?](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLM/comments/1woyoxa/) — Reddit (r/LocalLLM) · Sep 24 · score 6 · 25 comments 8. [Running Hermes Agent on a Google Antigravity subscription, and why Claude kept returning empty turns](https://dev.to/neerazz/running-hermes-agent-on-a-google-antigravity-subscription-and-why-claude-kept-returning-empty-turns-46j2) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 28 · score 0 · 1 comment 9. [breakstageaxe61/genspark-claw: 🦀⚡ Community skill pack & CLI for Genspark Claw, OpenClaw & Hermes agents — 5 production-ready SKILL.md skills \(deep research, reports, slides, browser automation, AI call prep\), zero-dependency Node.js installer, MCP server, one-line install](https://github.com/breakstageaxe61/genspark-claw) — GitHub (breakstageaxe61) · Sep 26 · score 66 10. [third overnight death this week and im questioning if this agent stack is even worth it](https://www.reddit.com/r/AI_Agents/comments/1wojg9z/) — Reddit (r/AI\_Agents) · Sep 23 · score 6 · 12 comments 11. [@darkghosthunter I used MiMo 2.5 a lot over the summer, found it very capable. I'm now using GLM 5.3 Flash for most stuff but MiMO is still the front door for my #HermesAgent](https://mstdn.plus/@scross01/117312011029357653) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mstdn.plus) · Sep 22 · score 0 · 1 comment 12. [Where should OpenClaw or Hermes Agent live? This comparison covers a Mac mini, Raspberry Pi, home PC and VPS, including purchase cost, monthly spend and upkeep. A VPS lets the agent keep running when…](https://mastodon.social/@oneclickclaw_io/117331049215479141) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.social) · Sep 25 · score 2 · 0 comments ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 60 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes): - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 57% of its stories - [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 38% of its stories - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 32% of its stories - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 13% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 13% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 3.3% of its stories ## Related topics - **Related to:** [Agent harness](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_harness.md), [Agent Skills](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_skills.md), [Open-weight models](https://abovethefog.app/topics/open_weights.md), [Local inference](https://abovethefog.app/topics/local_inference.md) - **Competes with:** [DeepSeek Harness](https://abovethefog.app/topics/deepseek_harness.md), [Grok Bot](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok_bot.md), [OpenClaw](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openclaw.md), [Instinct](https://abovethefog.app/topics/instinct.md), [Meta Muse](https://abovethefog.app/topics/meta_muse.md) - **Part of:** [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md) - **Mentioned with:** [Qwen](https://abovethefog.app/topics/qwen.md) (20 stories), [OpenRouter](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openrouter.md) (8 stories), [OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/topics/opencode.md) (7 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 16.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 15.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 25, 2026 | 18 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 24, 2026 | 15.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 23, 2026 | 15.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 22, 2026 | 9.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 21, 2026 | 0.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 20, 2026 | 1.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 1.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 3.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 17, 2026 | 5.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 16, 2026 | 2.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 15, 2026 | 4.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 14, 2026 | 3.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 13, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 12, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 11, 2026 | 0.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 10, 2026 | 12.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 3.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 4.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 0.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 0.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 1.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 3, 2026 | 0.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 2, 2026 | 2.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 0.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 2 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 2.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | [Open Hermes Agent in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=hermes_agent) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hermes_agent) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)