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- Hermes Agent vs ponytail
Hermes Agent vs ponytail
Two tools side by side on stored numbers and facts. No verdict of ours: every number (stars, gains, last commit, contributors) carries the time it was checked, licence and platform are copied from each entry, and a missing value reads [unconfirmed].
AI chooses the lists under the owner’s delegation. No human review is running in September 2026. Total stars, increases, cross-source signals, last updates and licences are shown as evidence. How ranks work →
Hermes Agent
Self-improving personal agentponytail
Make your agent write less code| FACT | Hermes Agent | ponytail |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 245,873checked on GitHub · incl. +48 observed via GH Archive since then | ★ 139,398checked on GitHub · incl. +146 observed via GH Archive since then |
| 7-day gain | ▲ +375 (GH Archive) | ▲ +1,068 (GH Archive) |
| 30-day gain | ▲ +1,136 (GH Archive) | ▲ +3,532 (GH Archive) |
| Licence | MITUse, change and redistribute, commercially too. Keep the notice. | MITUse, change and redistribute, commercially too. Keep the notice. |
| Platform | linux · macos · windows · android · cli | [unconfirmed] |
| Last commit | within 24 h · | 1 day ago · |
| Contributors | 3,552 contributors | 65 contributors |
| How to start | [unconfirmed] | For developers |
Star totals are the last GitHub check plus increases observed via GH Archive since; the 7- and 30-day gains are GH Archive observations to the reference time. The same snapshot as the rankings — a comparison, not a recommendation.
WHICH FOR WHOM
The roles are copied from each entry’s "who uses it" lines. Nothing here is a new judgement.
- Hermes Agent
- Solo business · Developer · Automation owner
- ponytail
- Solo developer · Team lead