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FOREST vs hermes-agent
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Recorded Stars Comparison
● mikamikasuki/FOREST (106)
● NousResearch/hermes-agent (250.4K)
☆ 106FOREST stars
☆ 250.4Khermes-agent stars
+250.2KDifference
hermes-agentStar Leader (2361.8x)
⚖️ Comparison Verdict
Star Popularity
hermes-agent Leads
+250.2K stars (2361.8x ratio)
Forks & Derivatives
hermes-agent Leads
53.5K total community forks
Recent Maintenance
FOREST
Pushed 5d ago
Licensing
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FOREST: Apache-2.0 vs hermes-agent: MIT
Side-by-Side Facts
| Metric | mikamikasuki/FOREST ↗ | NousResearch/hermes-agent ↗ |
|---|---|---|
| Description | FOREST is a research agent for long-horizon science, where evidence gets lost, errors compound, and goals drift. It explores ideas, reads literature, forms hypotheses, runs real experiments, analyzes results, revises paths, and builds a full paper—all in an editable graph you can inspect, branch, redirect, with claims and figures linked to evidence | The agent that grows with you |
| GitHub Stars | ☆ 106 | ☆ 250,355 |
| Forks | 10 | 53,496 |
| Open Issues | 21 | 47,686 |
| Main Language | Python | Python |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Last Push | Oct 7, 2026 | Oct 1, 2026 |
| GitHub Source | Open Source ↗ | Open Source ↗ |
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