The best Hermes Agent alternatives
8 tools that do a similar job to Hermes Agent, 8 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.
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Hermes AgentA self-improving AI agent that runs in your terminal and chat apps and learns from past work.
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OpenHands
Open source · MIT · ★ 92.5k
A self-hosted control panel that runs AI coding agents on your machine, in Docker, or in the cloud.
Best for: Developers who want coding agents running on a server while their laptop is off; Teams that want a shared agent server for tasks like code review or dependency updates
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Brigade
Open source · MIT · ★ 11.4k
A self-hosted personal AI crew of agents that share memory and talk through chat apps.
Best for: Developers who want to run their own multi-agent setup on a laptop or server; People who want an AI assistant that keeps data on hardware they control
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AI Berkshire
Open source · MIT · ★ 17k
A set of AI prompt-based value investing research skills for Claude Code and Codex.
Best for: Chinese-speaking investors who want a structured value investing checklist applied to specific companies; People already using Claude Code or Codex who want repeatable research templates
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Humanizer
Open source · MIT · ★ 63.8k
Rewrites AI-generated text to read more like a person wrote it, keeping the meaning.
Best for: Writers who draft with an AI and want the final text to sound more natural; Developers using Claude Code or Codex who want a reusable writing-cleanup step
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Ponytail
Open source · MIT · ★ 182k
A Claude Code and agent skill that makes the AI write less code, aiming for the smallest working change.
Best for: Developers who use Claude Code or similar AI agents and find the generated code too long; Teams that want code reviews and repo audits run by an agent
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watermarks-remover
Open source · MIT · ★ 25.9k
Strips AI provenance watermarks from text and files you own, via an agent skill and a local Python service.
Best for: Developers who use AI coding agents and want written files scrubbed of provenance metadata; Creators who want to remove embedded C2PA or EXIF data from their own images or documents before sharing
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ARIS
Open source · MIT · ★ 18.5k
Markdown-based skill files that let an AI agent run ML research loops, with a second model reviewing the work.
Best for: ML researchers who already use Claude Code or Codex and want a structured research workflow; People who want to pair two different models so one reviews the other's work
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Kilo Code
Open source · MIT · ★ 27.8k
Open source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, or the command line.
Best for: Developers who want an AI coding agent inside VS Code or JetBrains; People who want to choose among many AI models for different tasks
How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Hermes Agent. We don't take payment for placement.