nousresearch / hermes-agent
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8,758 files and 100,728 symbols in 24 modules, led by Python (4,367 files) and TypeScript (2,339).
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Code health
This codebase scores 5.3 out of 10 for code health, which we rate needs work. It also scores maintainability 6.8 and static performance 9.4 out of 10. The three are scored separately and never blended into one number. Risk is concentrated, as it usually is: 1,424 of 8,758 files are git hotspots, and they average 3.7 — which is where the fixes pay off most.
On the leaderboards:#6 of 6 Coding agents#40 of 44 Python repos
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5 things worth doing this quarter.
Worth planning
Break up _kanban_notifier_watcher (CCN 100, 525 lines)
gateway/kanban_watchers.py:761
_kanban_notifier_watcher nests its control flow deeply, and part of it is duplicated, so splitting it also removes a copy; 6 files import it, changed 25 times in 90 days.
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- up to +1.1 health on this file(inferred)
- finding
- Nested complexity
- size
- CCN 100, 525 lines, nests 8 deep
- severity
- critical
Medium effort, worth a checkBreak up build_kwargs (CCN 73, 191 lines)
agent/transports/codex.py:344
build_kwargs is long, branchy and widely depended on, and part of it is duplicated, so splitting it also removes a copy; 13 files import it, changed 23 times in 90 days.
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- up to +1.0 health on this file(inferred)
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- Brain method
- size
- CCN 73, 191 lines, nests 3 deep
- severity
- critical
Medium effort, worth a checkUpdate the decision “Fan out passthrough button presses to all live gateway sessions”: the code it governs has moved on
Agents and reviewers still follow it, so they are steered by a rule the code no longer keeps.
- status
- Accepted, drifting
Small effort, worth a check
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