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REFACTORING HERMES WITH 1,393 AGENTS

nousresearch.com10 min read

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Hermes coordinated 1,393 subagents over about 19 active hours to refactor a million-line Python repository, cutting non-test source by 34.4% for roughly $19,300 in model costs. Worktrees and frozen baselines supported parallel integration, but community review still caught removed public APIs and changed exception handling that the tests missed.