Hermes Agent
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The agent that grows with you
Is Hermes Agent safe? Strong public trust posture, backed by multiple independent signals. 2 published advisories affect its latest release.
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How does it stack up against its Coding Agents neighbours?
Pick any agent to compare →In detail: Hermes Agent scores 85.1/100 (Grade A), ranked #92 of 1378 tracked open-source AI agent projects, on evidence coverage B (3 of 5 independent signal types). The public evidence: its packages ship with cryptographic provenance; OSSF Scorecard rates its supply-chain practices 6.4/10; 8% of recent commits are signed; 2 published advisories affect its latest release (hermes-agent); last pushed 2026-10-17. Every point is earned from checkable signals — never paid placement. How scoring works →
Known advisories
Published advisories (from OSV) that affect the release you'd install today: hermes-agent 0.19.0. An unfixed critical advisory caps the HVTrust score at 64.9 (Grade C) and a high one at 79.9 (Grade B), until a fixed release ships; moderate, low and unrated ones are shown, not scored. Checked 2026-10-17.
- MODERATE hermes-agent has an Uncontrolled Resource Consumption issue
- MODERATE hermes-agent has an Injection issue
How Hermes Agent could raise its score
Each line changes one public signal and recomputes with the live scoring function. The gains don't add up exactly, because the score is capped near the top.
- Raise the OSSF Scorecard from 6.4 to 9.0lowest checks: CII-Best-Practices 0, Fuzzing 0, Token-Permissions 0 +4.9 → 90.0 A · #3 of 77
- Sign every commit8% signed today +4.2 → 89.3 A · #4 of 77
Chain of custody
Scanners check what the code says. This traces who ships Hermes Agent and whether that has changed: from the source repository, through how changes are reviewed and released, to the package you install. These are the checks for OWASP ASI04 Agentic Supply Chain Vulnerabilities.
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Source Partly signed
github.com/nousresearch/hermes-agent, MIT, last pushed 2026-10-17. 8% of the last 100 commits carry a verified signature; the rest can't be tied to a verified identity.
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Review and release Mixed
OpenSSF Scorecard rates the repository's practices 6.4/10 (scanned Oct 4, 2026). The checks that decide who can get a change released:
- Code Review1
- Branch Protection3
- Signed Releasesn/a
- Dangerous Workflow10
- Token Permissions0
- Pinned Dependencies8
All 18 Scorecard checks
Binary-Artifacts 10Branch-Protection 3CI-Tests 10CII-Best-Practices 0Code-Review 1Contributors 10Dangerous-Workflow 10Dependency-Update-Tool 10Fuzzing 0License 10Maintained 10Packaging 10Pinned-Dependencies 8SAST 10Security-Policy 10Signed-Releases -1Token-Permissions 0Vulnerabilities 0 -
Published packages Partly attested
- PyPI hermes-agent Source link isn't a GitHub repo Build provenance attested
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What you install today 2 advisories
Latest release checked: hermes-agent 0.19.0. 2 published advisories affect it (OSV, checked 2026-10-17).
Changes to this chain
- 2026-08-07 Provenance drift warning cleared (now: unknown)
Evidence behind this score
Coverage B: 3 of 5 independent evidence types found.
- GitHub repository data
- Package downloads
- Supply-chain checks
- Public actions (missing)
- Community mentions (missing)
Verify this score yourself
Every build re-issues Hermes Agent’s score as an Ed25519-signed credential, valid for 7 days. You can check it offline against HVTracker’s published key; if anyone changes a number after signing, verification fails.
What this score doesn’t check
It covers who ships the code, not what the code does. It doesn’t read tool descriptions or prompts for injected instructions, watch runtime behaviour, or find bugs nobody has disclosed yet. For that, run a content scanner before you connect it, such as Cisco MCP Scanner or Snyk Agent Scan.
How Hermes Agent compares in Coding Agents
- #4 Qwen Code 89.3 +4.2
- #5 Bernstein 89.2 +4.1
- #6 Hermes Agent 85.1 this agent
- #7 CodeWhale 84.3 −0.8
- #8 oh-my-pi 83.7 −1.4
Bars show each HVTrust score; the tick marks Hermes Agent’s 85.1.
Where the 85.1 comes from
HVTrust dimensions vs the Coding Agents average
85.1 / 100 · 100.0% confidenceHermes Agent Coding Agents average (77 agents)
Quick Trust Read
How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption. Grade A reflects the trust score band: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Evidence coverage B is separate — it grades how many independent signal types back the score (3 of 5), so a high score on thin evidence stays visible. Full methodology →
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100.0 / 100Common questions about Hermes Agent
Does Hermes Agent publish package provenance?
Does Hermes Agent have an OpenSSF Scorecard?
Is Hermes Agent actively maintained?
What license does Hermes Agent use?
Are Hermes Agent's commits signed?
Not a safety endorsement. HVTracker describes what public signals show, not whether a project is safe for your use case. Run your own security review before adopting in production.
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AI agent surface
MCP, providers, tool surface
These runtime-trust fields — detected from public repo docs and manifests — contribute a bounded adjustment to this project's HVTrust score alongside supply-chain evidence. The exact values each field can add or subtract are documented in the methodology → Compare this surface across every listed agent in the capability matrix →
- browser
- shell
- MCP signal live
- External deps live
- Tool / plugin surface live
- Package provenance drift live
Detected changes to Hermes Agent's runtime surface and supply-chain posture, from daily public-signal snapshots. A change here means our detectors see something different — a genuinely changed capability, or better evidence of an existing one.
Maintain Hermes Agent?
For maintainers
HVTrust scores Hermes Agent from public signals only — we never contact maintainers first. If a signal is wrong, stale, or missing (provenance you publish, a Scorecard you run, signed releases), tell us and we'll review it. Corrections are public and tracked on GitHub.
Reputation Timeline
Signal history
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For maintainers
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