AI pens 79k‑word novel
Hermes Agent — an AI system — reportedly wrote a 79,000‑word novel titled The Second Son of the House of Bells, and the announcement post drew 1,082 likes on March 19. (x.com)
Nous Research published a dedicated landing page that hosts downloadable PDF, ePub and audiobook files and describes an "autonovel" pipeline that produced the work. (nousresearch.com) The project's autonovel GitHub repository documents the full pipeline and identifies the finished manuscript as spanning 19 chapters, while providing the actual scripts used to draft, edit, typeset and generate audio. (github.com) The repo lays out the pipeline's checkpoints and thresholds — a foundation loop that runs until foundation_score > 7.5, a drafting phase that keeps chapters scoring > 6.0 and an adversarial revision stage followed by a final "Opus" review loop that uses dual-persona critique. (github.com) Hermes Agent itself is published as open-source software under an MIT-style, audit-friendly approach and is promoted on an official site describing persistent memory and self-improvement features. (hermes-agent.org) The Hermes Agent GitHub project shows wide community traction, listing roughly 7.3k stars and about 837 forks on the main repository. (github.com) Nous Research said the autonovel workflow was inspired by Andrej Karpathy’s autoresearch modify-evaluate-keep/discard pattern, and CEO Jeffrey Quesnelle distributed printed copies at NVIDIA’s GTC while crediting that agentic loop in the project notes; Karpathy publicly replied that the idea “should yield excellent results” if done with care. (github.com)
