The data

MEASURED OCT 14 2026
1217verified use cases in the index
577videos catalogued
239open-source repos
253,454GitHub stars (live, Oct 14 2026)
38releases since March 2026
371official community stories

Launch timeline

THE VERIFIED RECORD
2025-07-22
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
2026-10-12
Latest release — 38 total, a steady train since March. · GitHub releases

Adoption, in the record

PROOF POINTS
Razorpay
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

THE TRAJECTORY

The measured facts: a release train running since March 2026, the largest open-source agent harness by adoption, an ecosystem that produced 300+ repos and 500+ videos in its first eight months, and an enterprise proof point (Razorpay) inside the first five.

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