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Head to head · Assistants that remember you · October 2026 research run

Hermes Agent vs Talorys

Hermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against Talorys's 28.9 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do assistants that remember you.

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Hermes AgentNous Research · Agent harness B67.9/100#244 of 993 TalorysRoc Yu (rociiu) and contributors · Platform F28.9/100#976 of 993

Which one, for what

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 41
  • Schema & documentation, 80 against 0
  • Agent ergonomics, 80 against 0
  • Security & auth, 75 against 8
  • Transparency & trust, 63 against 52

Also in its favour

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

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

Talorys F

Best for A single person who wants a private assistant for memory, tasks, notes and reminders on their own Cloudflare account.

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where Hermes Agent loses 3 points for them

Watch for

No API key, MCP server or A2A endpoint, and the /api routes need the owner's browser session.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runHermes AgentTalorysEdge
Reliability16%205741Hermes Agent +16
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.2800Hermes Agent +80
Agent ergonomics13%16.2800Hermes Agent +80
Security & auth14%17.5758Hermes Agent +67
Payments & pricing10%12.56060even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88483Hermes Agent +1
Transparency & trust7%8.86352Hermes Agent +11
Negative events≤15-30
TotalB 67.9/100F 28.9/100

Facts side by side

FactHermes AgentTalorys
KindAgent harnessPlatform
VendorNous ResearchRoc Yu (rociiu) and contributors
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthNoneOAuth or key
PricingFreeFree
x402nono
LicenceMITMIT (Copyright 2026 The Talorys contributors). It runs on the owner's Cloudflare account under Cloudflare's own terms.
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtyesno
Last release2026-10-112026-10-12
Terms last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedno 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
Popularity253k stars978 npm/wk

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.

Talorys

Talorys is an MIT-licensed assistant its owner deploys to their own Cloudflare account, with no telemetry, a documented threat model and code-enforced confirmation for destructive tools. It is two days old at version 0.1.5, has no mail, calendar or payment connections, and no interface for an outside agent.

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

Talorys

  1. Run npx create-talorys@latest with Node.js 22 or later and a Cloudflare login or an API token with Workers, Pages and Workers AI permissions.
  2. Don't script the /api routes. They need the owner's session cookie and CSRF header and aren't documented for other callers.
  3. Update with npx create-talorys@latest update. Only the latest version gets security fixes.

Questions

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

Hermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against Talorys's 28.9 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

Are Hermes Agent and Talorys open source?

Yes. Hermes Agent is open source (MIT). Talorys is open source (MIT (Copyright 2026 The Talorys contributors). It runs on the owner's Cloudflare account under Cloudflare's own terms.).

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Disclosure

Talorys 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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