# nousresearch/hermes-agent — GitHub star history and repository health

Canonical HTML: https://gitdebt.com/nousresearch/hermes-agent

Status: analyzed. Every figure below is measured — star history from gitdebt's Postgres cache, repository health from the public Git history. Private repositories are never analyzed or counted.

## Star snapshot

| Metric | Value |
| --- | --- |
| GitHub stars | 245,450 |
| Series | public star actions (historical data) |
| Star events observed | 28,641 |
| History covers | 2026-02-25 to 2026-09-15 |
| Repository created | 2025-07-22 |

The series records public star *actions* and cannot see unstars, so it is an attention signal rather than a net-star curve. The GitHub star total above is the headline figure.

### Growth records

| Window | Stars gained | Dates |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Best day | +2,107 | 2026-04-12 |
| Best week | +9,896 | 2026-04-08 to 2026-04-14 |
| Best 30 days | +18,422 | 2026-04-04 to 2026-05-03 |

### Milestones

| Stars | First reached | Days from creation |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 100 | 2026-02-26 | 219 |
| 1,000 | 2026-03-11 | 232 |
| 10,000 | 2026-04-11 | 263 |

## Repository health

Raw figures over the trailing 90 days, computed from the public Git history. gitdebt publishes the counts rather than a grade here: judge them against what the project claims to be.

| Reading | Figures |
| --- | --- |
| Maintenance | 20,228 commits in the last 90 days, 9,758 in the 90 before · last commit 2026-09-14 |
| Ownership | 3 of 3,434 contributors write half of 31,462 attributed commits · top author 12,013 commits |
| Repair load | 53,622 of 120,579 file changes came from fix-labelled commits |
| Debt markers | +16 TODO/FIXME markers in the last 90 days · 16 outstanding |
| Change hotspot | `gateway/run.py` · 1,827 changes · 1,215 fix-labelled |
| File freshness | 16,398 of 16,398 tracked files touched in the last year |
| Commits read | 34,688 (full commit history) |
| Analysis last ran | 2026-09-14T15:47:01Z |

## Put this in a README

Three paste-ready snippets for `nousresearch/hermes-agent`. Every URL is a plain public image: no account, token, build step, or GitHub Action. Each snippet already carries light and dark variants, alt text, and the link back to the report.

### Metrics badge

Stars and forks in one compact chip. Goes in the badge row directly under the project title.

```html
<a href="https://gitdebt.com/nousresearch/hermes-agent?ref=readme">
  <picture>
    <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/nousresearch/hermes-agent/badge.svg?metrics=stars,forks&theme=dark" />
    <img alt="nousresearch/hermes-agent stars and forks" src="https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/nousresearch/hermes-agent/badge.svg?metrics=stars,forks&theme=light" />
  </picture>
</a>
```

### Star history

The full cumulative star curve. Goes in a `## Star history` section near the bottom of the README, above License.

```html
<a href="https://gitdebt.com/nousresearch/hermes-agent?ref=readme">
  <picture>
    <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/nousresearch/hermes-agent/chart.svg?theme=dark" />
    <img alt="nousresearch/hermes-agent star history" src="https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/nousresearch/hermes-agent/chart.svg?theme=light" />
  </picture>
</a>
```

### Repository card

Stars, forks, contributors, languages, and a 90-day sparkline in one panel. Goes in an About or Project status section.

```html
<a href="https://gitdebt.com/nousresearch/hermes-agent?ref=readme">
  <picture>
    <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/nousresearch/hermes-agent/card.svg?theme=dark" />
    <img alt="nousresearch/hermes-agent repository statistics" src="https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/nousresearch/hermes-agent/card.svg?theme=light" />
  </picture>
</a>
```

Snippets are static by design, because motion in somebody else's README should be their decision: add `animate=1` to an SVG URL when it is wanted and it plays in a GitHub README, or use the `.gif` variant for a surface that takes raster alone. Keep the surrounding link and its `?ref=readme` — attribution lives on the link, never in an image URL — and do not add cache-busting parameters.

The complete asset catalog, with every snippet, is at https://gitdebt.com/badges.md.

## Live data

- Repository on GitHub: https://github.com/nousresearch/hermes-agent
- Star history JSON: https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/nousresearch/hermes-agent/stars.json
- Star history CSV: https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/nousresearch/hermes-agent/stars.csv
- Repository-health summary: https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/nousresearch/hermes-agent/health.json
- Repository-health detail: https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/nousresearch/hermes-agent/stats.json
- Earned badges: https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/nousresearch/hermes-agent/earned-badges.json
- Queue and ETA snapshot: https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/nousresearch/hermes-agent/progress.json
