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Cline vs Hermes Agent

Cline leads on trust: 92.4/100 (Grade A) against 84.0/100 (Grade A), a 8.4-point gap. Cline leads on supply-chain integrity and adoption, and rests on broader evidence.

A Cline 92.4

Autonomous coding agent as an SDK, IDE extension, or CLI assistant.

cline/cline · #9 overall · #1 Coding Agents · coverage A (4/5)

Choose Cline if supply-chain integrity and adoption matter most.

+4.7Safety / Integrity: 96% of recent commits signed, against 2%
+0.9Adoption: 5.9M weekly downloads against 35.7k
A vs BEvidence coverage: 4 of 5 independent signal types, against 3

A Hermes Agent 84.0

The agent that grows with you

nousresearch/hermes-agent · #115 overall · #7 Coding Agents · coverage B (3/5)

Hermes Agent doesn't lead on any scored dimension in this pair.

Where they differ

20.2

Safety / IntegrityCline +4.7

15.5

20.0

AdoptionCline +0.9

19.1

+0.3

Runtime calibrationCline +2.8

-2.5

3 dimensions identical: Identity 18.0 · Transparency 13.9 · Maintenance 20.0 · Full evidence table

An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of Cline and Hermes Agent, two Coding Agents projects in the HVTracker registry. Scores come from public, checkable signals — supply-chain provenance, OSSF Scorecard, maintenance, and adoption — not popularity.

Full evidence

Signal	Clinecline/cline	Hermes Agentnousresearch/hermes-agent
HVTrust score	92.4	84.0
Evidence grade	A	A
Coverage grade	A	B
Overall rank	#9	#115
Rank in Coding Agents	#1	#7
GitHub stars	71.3k	260.7k
Last updated	today	today
Build provenance	Yes	Yes
OSSF Scorecard	6.3 / 10	6.3 / 10
License	Apache-2.0	MIT
Downloads	5.9M/wk	36k/wk
Trust dimensions (points earned)
Safety / integrity / 25	20.2	15.5
Identity & provenance / 18	18.0	18.0
Transparency / 17	13.9	13.9
Maintenance / 20	20.0	20.0
Adoption / 20	20.0	19.1
Runtime capability surface (full matrix)
MCP server	Declared	Implemented
External providers	—	7 — Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, ElevenLabs, …
Requires API keys	Yes	No
Plugin surface	plugins	plugins
Provenance drift	Match	Unknown

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How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption, scaled by an evidence-confidence factor. Grade bands: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Signals refresh daily. Full methodology v4.4 →