# Hermes Agent vs Skydive > Hermes Agent scores 68.2 (B) to Skydive's 52.1 (D) for proactive personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-skydive - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-skydive.md (~4,150 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-skydive.min.md (~730 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-skydive.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key) - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) - Updated: 2026-10-31 Hermes Agent scores 68.2 (B) on agent readiness against Skydive's 52.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Skydive leads on transparency & trust. Both do proactive personal assistants. - Hermes Agent: grade B, 68.2/100, rank #255 of 1244. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hermes-agent.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hermes-agent.json - Skydive: grade D, 52.1/100, rank #899 of 1244. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skydive.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/skydive.json - Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md - All 1245 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md ## Which one, for what ### Hermes Agent (B) Good 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 41 - Agent ergonomics, 80 against 59 - Security & auth, 75 against 59 - Payments & pricing, 60 against 35 - Maintenance & community, 84 against 56 Also in its favour: - No key needed to call it - 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 ### Skydive (D) Good for: A person or team who wants hosted agents with their own cloud computers, memory and connected apps, reachable in Slack, email, text and a CLI, and who can drive them from scripts through the CLI. Ahead on: - Transparency & trust, 75 against 67 Also in its favour: - A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install Watch for: The API has no operation for sending an agent a task. That runs through the CLI's `chat -p`, outside the OpenAPI contract. ## Score by category | Category | Weight | Hermes Agent | Skydive | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 57 | 41 | Hermes Agent +16 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 81 | Skydive +1 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 59 | Hermes Agent +21 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 75 | 59 | Hermes Agent +16 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 35 | Hermes Agent +25 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 84 | 56 | Hermes Agent +28 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 67 | 75 | Skydive +8 | | Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | -5 | | | **Total** | | **68.2 · B** | **52.1 · D** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | Hermes Agent | Skydive | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Agent harness | Platform | | Vendor | Nous Research | Create, Inc. | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.skydive.com/v1` | | Transports | | HTTP | | Auth | None | OAuth or key | | Pricing | Free | Freemium | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | MIT | Closed service under the Skydive Terms of Service (Create, Inc.), effective 29 July 2026. The skydive-cli npm package is published under the MIT licence. | | Read-only variant documented | no | yes | | llms.txt | yes | yes | | Last release | 2026-10-11 | 2026-08-26 | | Terms last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read | | Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read | | Customer content may train models | | couldn't be read | | Terms restrict automated access | | couldn't be read | | Terms restrict benchmarking | | couldn't be read | | Terms or service can change without notice | | couldn't be read | | Arbitration or class-action waiver | | couldn't be read | | Popularity | 253k stars | 5.5k npm/wk | | Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | none | ## Verdicts **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. **Skydive.** Skydive publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 document, Markdown docs and scoped, agent-bound API keys, though outside agents can send it tasks only through the CLI. Its status page records several major incidents, including a 25-hour Agent Hosting outage, and its home and pricing pages say data is never used for training while the privacy policy turns training on by default. ## Before you call either ### 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` ### Skydive 1. Send tasks with `skydive chat -p "..." --agent --json` and pass `--conversation ` from the JSON to keep context. The REST API can't send a task. 2. Don't retry `chat -p` or a create blindly after a timeout. There's no idempotency key, so list agents or keys before retrying. 3. Ask the owner for an agent-bound `use` key when you only need to read. Account-level `edit` keys can create agents and mint keys. 4. Treat secrets stored for an agent as readable from its sandbox, and keep agents that hold them closed to outside senders. 5. Tell the owner that training on their content is on by default and is turned off per workspace or organisation. ## Questions ### Which is better for AI agents, Hermes Agent or Skydive? Hermes Agent scores 68.2 (B) on agent readiness against Skydive's 52.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Skydive leads on transparency & trust. ### Are Hermes Agent and Skydive open source? Hermes Agent is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Skydive. ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-skydive.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-skydive.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "hermes-agent", "b": "skydive"}`. 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