The data
MEASURED OCTOBER 14, 20261217verified use cases in the index
577videos catalogued
239open-source repos
253,673GitHub stars (measured OCTOBER 14, 2026)
39releases since March 2026
371official community stories
Launch timeline
THE VERIFIED RECORD2025-07-22
Repository created — internal development (commits from July 2025). · GitHub API
2026-01-31
"Add a claude code-like CLI" — the agent product takes shape. · GitHub API
2026-02-26
Public launch — Nous Research announcement on X, same-day HN pickup, first community build. · X + HN 47163731
2026-03-12
First tagged release v2026.3.12. · GitHub releases
2026-05-14
First PyPI release (0.13.0). · pypi.org
2026-10-14
Latest release v0.22.0 — 39 total, a steady train since March. · GitHub releases
Adoption, in the record
PROOF POINTSRazorpay
220+ employees each run an isolated, always-on Hermes agent on Kubernetes — one logged over 15,000 sessions, 90% while its owner was asleep. · engineering.razorpay.com
Official wall
371 community stories catalogued by Nous themselves across Discord, Reddit, X, GitHub, blogs and video. · hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs
Ecosystem
304 public repos, 559 videos, paid skill marketplaces, hosted startups, and enterprise deployments in the index. · this hub's corpus
Where it points
WHAT COMES NEXTA release train has been running since March 2026. Nous Research describes the harness as the most widely used open-source agent harness in the world. The ecosystem grew past 300 public repos and 500 videos in under eight months, and the Razorpay deployment landed inside the first five months.
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