Teknium runs Hermes Agent for 15 hours, sheds 375,000 lines of code
Teknium · x · 2026-09-03
Nous Research co-founder Teknium put Hermes Agent to the test with a single /goal command: the agent ran for 15 hours cleaning up the Hermes Agent repo, shedding 375,000 lines of code.
- A total of 1,320 subagents were spawned in waves of 120, plus three sets of 15 that could each spawn their own subagents.
- He calls it the ultimate stress test of Hermes Agent, demonstrating large-scale multi-agent orchestration on a real refactoring task.
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