hermes-agent

This is a rare case: a production-grade agentic system with real architectural choices (memory loops, skill persistence, multi-platform gating) that actually runs. The learning loop and FTS5-backed session search are nontrivial. No academic novelty here, but that's not the pitch — it's operationalization of known patterns. The $5 VPS deployment claim is credible given the terminal backend abstraction. The slop score reflects the inevitable marketing gloss ("only agent with a built-in learning...