ECC vs hermes-agent
Side-by-side comparison of two AI agent tools
Short answer
- ECC is growing faster: +15,970 GitHub stars in the last 30 days vs +5,710 for hermes-agent.
- Pick ECC for: coordinated engineering system for AI coding agents with planning, testing, review, memory, and security. Pick hermes-agent for: the agent that grows with you.
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ECCopen-source
Coordinated engineering system for AI coding agents with planning, testing, review, memory, and security
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hermes-agentopen-source
The agent that grows with you
Metrics
| ECC | hermes-agent | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 271.7k | 250.9k |
| Star velocity /mo | 16.0k | 5.7k |
| Commits (90d) | 787 | 33.4k |
| Releases (6m) | 7 | 10 |
| Downloads (30d, npm + PyPI) | 42.5K | — |
| Overall score | 0.8565295708921501 | 0.946551175635728 |
FAQ
- Which is more popular, ECC or hermes-agent?
- ECC has more GitHub stars (271,730 vs 250,877).
- Which is more actively developed, ECC or hermes-agent?
- hermes-agent had more commits in the last 90 days (33,428 vs 787).
- Should I use ECC or hermes-agent?
- Compare their capabilities, limitations and "best for" notes above. Both are open source, so trying each on a small task is the fastest way to decide.