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Head to head · Assistants reached by message · October 2026 research run

Asmi vs Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants reached by message.

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AsmiHumint Labs, Inc. · Platform F33.3/100#973 of 1010 Hermes AgentNous Research · Agent harness B67.9/100#244 of 1010

Which one, for what

Asmi F

Best for An agent that needs phone calls, texts and emails to businesses done for its owner.

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
  • No incidents deducted, where Hermes Agent loses 3 points for them

Watch for

Tool JSON Schemas and annotations can't be read before OAuth (unauthenticated initialize returns 401).

Hermes Agent B

Best for A technical owner who wants one always-on agent across chat apps with memory and scheduled jobs, on their own machine or a small server, with any model.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 57 against 30
  • Schema & documentation, 80 against 20
  • Agent ergonomics, 80 against 43
  • Security & auth, 75 against 49
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 84 against 3
  • Transparency & trust, 63 against 51

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Free to start without a card
  • Open source

Watch for

The default terminal backend runs commands on the host, and the default smart mode lets an auxiliary model approve commands it rates low-risk

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAsmiHermes AgentEdge
Reliability16%203057Hermes Agent +27
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.22080Hermes Agent +60
Agent ergonomics13%16.24380Hermes Agent +37
Security & auth14%17.54975Hermes Agent +26
Payments & pricing10%12.53060Hermes Agent +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8384Hermes Agent +81
Transparency & trust7%8.85163Hermes Agent +12
Negative events≤150-3
TotalF 33.3/100B 67.9/100

Facts side by side

FactAsmiHermes Agent
KindPlatformAgent harness
VendorHumint Labs, Inc.Nous Research
Hosted endpointhttps://prod.asmiai.com/mcp/claude/no (local only)
TransportsStreamable HTTP
AuthOAuthNone
PricingFreemiumFree
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under Asmi's Terms of Service (Humint Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective October 2026).MIT
Tools exposed12none
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
Last releasenone2026-10-11
Terms last updatedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Popularitynone253k stars

Verdicts

Asmi

Asmi is a hosted errand service with a 12-tool MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and Muse, using OAuth with separate scopes for tracking tasks and for contacting people. Tool schemas sit behind sign-in, the outreach scope is ticked by default, and no status page, changelog or security contact was found.

Hermes Agent

Card payments always ask first and are refused in unattended sessions, and the messaging gateway denies every sender until an allowlist is set. Shell commands run on the host by default with a model judging risk, and sending mail through the Google Workspace skill is held back only by an instruction to the model.

Before you call either

Asmi

  1. Use the endpoint for your own client (/mcp/claude/, /mcp/openai/ or /mcp/meta/). A token from another client gets 403.
  2. Call discover_search before execute_start, then poll execute_status with the task id instead of starting the task again.
  3. Answer Asmi's questions with execute_advance. Calls already placed can't be recalled by execute_cancel.
  4. Expect outreach_not_permitted if the owner unticked contact people. Ask them to reconnect rather than retrying.
  5. Check billing_status before starting a task, since each outreach task uses one of the month's quota.

Hermes Agent

  1. Set approvals.mode: manual before giving it real accounts. The default smart lets an auxiliary model approve commands
  2. Run the gateway with terminal.backend: docker or the project's Docker image when it reads mail, web pages or group chats
  3. Set memory.write_approval: true and skills.write_approval: true to review what it saves about the owner
  4. Leave approvals.cron_mode and approvals.unattended_mode at deny for scheduled and webhook runs
  5. Set TELEGRAM_ALLOWED_USERS or the matching allowlist per channel. Never set GATEWAY_ALLOW_ALL_USERS=true

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Asmi or Hermes Agent?

Hermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.

Are Asmi and Hermes Agent open source?

No open-source release is listed for Asmi. Hermes Agent is open source (MIT).

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Disclosure

Asmi competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. It's graded by the same published checklist as every listing, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed instead of keeping either award by default.

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