Hermes Agent hits 150K GitHub stars

Nous Research’s Hermes Agent crossed 150,000 GitHub stars on May 19, a milestone that was flagged by users on X and reflected on the project’s GitHub repository. GitHub’s cached repository page showed the project at 150,000 stars around the threshold, while the live page listed 158,000 stars and 25,500 forks on May 20. A May 19 post from X user Subhankar P. linked directly to the Hermes Agent repository and said the project had reached 150,000 stars, helping push the number into wider circulation across AI and open-source communities. The repository is published under the NousResearch organization and carries the description, “The agent that grows with you.” ### Which repository hit the milestone? (github.com) The repository that crossed the mark is `NousResearch/hermes-agent`, the main open-source codebase for Hermes Agent on GitHub. GitHub’s repository page identifies it as a public project maintained by Nous Research and describes it as an agent that can be installed and developed through the platform’s standard fork-and-contribution workflow. (github.com) Nous Research’s own project site describes Hermes Agent as “an open-source agent that grows with you” and says the software is designed to become a persistent personal agent connected to messaging accounts. The site also lists the current release as Hermes Agent v0.14.0. ### What does GitHub show around the 150,000-star mark? GitHub’s cached page for the repository showed 150,000 stars and 23,800 forks in a crawl captured four days before May 20. (github.com) GitHub’s live page, crawled on May 20, showed 158,000 stars and 25,500 forks, indicating the project moved beyond the threshold within a short period. The same GitHub pages show heavy development activity. (hermes-agent.nousresearch.com) The cached page listed 8,338 commits, while the live page listed 9,041 commits, with recent updates landing within the previous 14 hours to two days. ### What has the project shipped recently? GitHub’s releases page shows Hermes Agent v0.14.0, tagged `v2026.5.16`, as the latest release and dates it to May 16, 2026. (github.com) The release notes say that version included 808 commits, 633 merged pull requests, 545 issues closed and 215 community contributors since v0.13.0. The release notes describe v0.14.0 as “The Foundation Release” and say the update was focused on making Hermes easier to install and run across environments. (github.com) That framing comes from the project’s own release documentation. ### How was the milestone picked up outside GitHub? Social-media tracking helped surface the milestone on May 19. The social briefing tied the 150,000-star figure to posts on X discussing AI industry developments, and one of those posts specifically cited Hermes Agent reaching the mark on GitHub. (github.com) Third-party ecosystem pages had also been tracking the project’s rapid growth before the milestone. (github.com) An “awesome-hermes-agent” repository reviewed on May 6 described the core Hermes repository as having 134,000 or more stars at that time, offering a recent reference point for how quickly the count had climbed. ### What comes next on the public record? GitHub’s releases page lists Hermes Agent v0.14.0 from May 16 as the latest tagged version, and the repository page shows new commits continuing to land as recently as 14 hours before the May 20 crawl. (github.com) GitHub’s live repository page is the next public place to watch for further star-count changes, forks and new release tags from Nous Research. (github.com 1) (github.com 2)