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[VELOCITY_REPORT//2026-W22]

hermes-agent added 13,815 stars in 7 days

hermes-agent added 13,815 stars in 7 days · ~4 min read

[TL;DR]
  • 01hermes-agent added 13,815 stars in 7 days
  • 02The Agents niche added 112,577 stars this week
  • 03Anti-pattern: mlabonne/llm-course — stars-up-commits-down.
  • 04Quiet org spotlight: vllm-project.
[Hero accelerator]

NousResearch/hermes-agent

NousResearch/hermes-agent is the week's biggest breakout — score 3.30/10, current class accelerating. 167,532 total stars, 1,158 contributors.

[Movers]
Accelerating
  • Imbad0202/academic-research-skills+13,094
  • rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch+11,186
  • nexu-io/open-design+9,465
  • anthropics/claude-plugins-official+8,301
  • CloakHQ/CloakBrowser+8,212
Stalling
(none)
[Niche of the week]
Agents

Across all tracked Agents repos, the ecosystem added 112,577 stars in 7 days — the largest niche-level move on The Terminal this week. The action is here.

HHI before: 2,979HHI after: 3,179
[Anti-pattern alert]
stars-up-commits-down · mlabonne/llm-course

mlabonne/llm-course added 237 stars this week against only 3 contributors (26,542 stars per contributor). Star velocity is running ahead of the shipping surface. Worth checking: is the work concentrated in one maintainer, or has the project hit a hype peak before the production layer caught up?

[Quiet org spotlight]

vllm-project

vllm-project is shipping quietly — 4 tracked repos with a combined velocity score of 13.9, but no single repo cracked the top 50 by 7-day stars. Either the work is spread evenly across a portfolio, or the discovery surface has not caught up to what they are building.

[On the cusp]
  • aden-hive/hivescore 5.36/10 · +82 stars/7d · class stable
  • vllm-project/vllm-ascendscore 5.34/10 · +39 stars/7d · class stable
  • rocketride-org/rocketride-serverscore 4.71/10 · +409 stars/7d · class stable
[Methodology]

Every number on this page comes from beam's daily ingest of GitHub, npm, PyPI, Hacker News, arXiv, HuggingFace, Docker, Stack Overflow, and Discord — fused into a 0–10 velocity score per repo. Read the full methodology.

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