Hermes Agent Cuts 34% of Code With 1,393 Agents

Nous Research said its Hermes Agent cleaned up its own codebase on September 2, 2026, with 1,393 subagents (up to 218 concurrent) cutting non-test Python code by 34.4%, from 1,063,826 to 698,363 lines. The run cost about $19,300 versus an estimated $150,000-$1.8 million manually.

• Code cut 34.4%: from 1,063,826 to 698,363 lines of Python
• gateway/run.py shrank from 34,847 to 5,512 lines
• Functions longer than 300 lines fell from 192 to 2
• Run cost about $19,300 vs $150,000-$1.8 million manually