I was expecting them to show code samples or something, but to me it looks more like these were two projects that ended up coming up with similar looking features, even with different implementations of these features. I don't see how Nous Research owes them any explanation, especially since at least from that linked issue they were coming in really hot with accusations of plagiarism. If I owned a large OSS project that amassed issues/discussions/PRs at a rate of ~4k per month I would probably also treat this kind of thing as spam."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Migrate from OpenClaw"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/guides/migrate-from-openclaw"}},"_tags":["comment","author_milch","story_48586005"],"author":"milch","comment_text":"Looking at their blog about it, I don't think Evolver has any claim to be honest. They make such generic claims as that session history was copied because they implemented their history in some `.jsonl` files while Hermes has a session history using sqlite FTS. Evolver better have some attribution crediting Anthropic for their session history feature, because as far as I can tell they've had that implemented since early 2025! Using .jsonl files no less, coincidentally the same way that Evolver decided to implement session history.
I was expecting them to show code samples or something, but to me it looks more like these were two projects that ended up coming up with similar looking features, even with different implementations of these features. I don't see how Nous Research owes them any explanation, especially since at least from that linked issue they were coming in really hot with accusations of plagiarism. If I owned a large OSS project that amassed issues/discussions/PRs at a rate of ~4k per month I would probably also treat this kind of thing as spam.","created_at":"2026-06-18T16:21:26Z","created_at_i":1781799686,"objectID":"48587755","parent_id":48586454,"story_id":48586005,"story_title":"Migrate from OpenClaw","story_url":"https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/guides/migrate-from-openclaw","updated_at":"2026-06-19T13:32:00Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"jdiff"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nous","research","plagiarism"],"value":"OpenCode seemed perfectly workable as a programming assistant. As personal assistants, they all fall short. It's too difficult to really shape their output.
I was briefly impressed with OpenClaw a few times, but ultimately was turned off by not being able to get the models to stop being so damnably verbose. I thought I made progress for a while by having it tweak its soul, iterate, switch models, iterate, switch models, fuse the results, iterate... but ultimately it's all forgotten early in each session. And then one day it killed itself by rebuilding the container it was inside.
Hermes apparently has some plagiarism issues they're trying to cover up [0] and I was deeply unimpressed with their janky, flickery CLI that force-enables a bulky obnoxious header on every launch. Hermes did readily dive into its own source code and did readily confirm that there was no way to disable it. So that's neat. It constantly (wants to) run from upstream master which is unsettling.
Nanoclaw and nanobot seemed fine, but not notably different. There were some common bugs and glitches that caused some minor data loss while configuring nanobot. After that I just deciding to start hacking my own together.
What I really want in a harness is being able to actually control and rewrite the entire context window, like Zed's Text Threads before they obnoxiously and inexplicably removed what, to me, was their most powerful and distinguishing feature.
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I was briefly impressed with OpenClaw a few times, but ultimately was turned off by not being able to get the models to stop being so damnably verbose. I thought I made progress for a while by having it tweak its soul, iterate, switch models, iterate, switch models, fuse the results, iterate... but ultimately it's all forgotten early in each session. And then one day it killed itself by rebuilding the container it was inside.
Hermes apparently has some plagiarism issues they're trying to cover up [0] and I was deeply unimpressed with their janky, flickery CLI that force-enables a bulky obnoxious header on every launch. Hermes did readily dive into its own source code and did readily confirm that there was no way to disable it. So that's neat. It constantly (wants to) run from upstream master which is unsettling.
Nanoclaw and nanobot seemed fine, but not notably different. There were some common bugs and glitches that caused some minor data loss while configuring nanobot. After that I just deciding to start hacking my own together.
What I really want in a harness is being able to actually control and rewrite the entire context window, like Zed's Text Threads before they obnoxiously and inexplicably removed what, to me, was their most powerful and distinguishing feature.
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- SunJun8's original issue text is still available at the linked issue. The gist is that Nous Research's Hermes appears derivative of (or heavily inspired by) EvoMap's Evolver (https://github.com/EvoMap/evolver), but without attribution.
- Issues #17688 and #27266 repeat this request for attribution.
- teknium1 retitled the original issue to "." and edited the issue text to "."
- Nous Research deleted comments from 4 users, including the issue submitter, and blocked all of them.
- No formal response has been given by teknium or the Nous Research project. It appears they are trying their darndest to brush it under the rug.
- EvoMap posted a whole manifesto (https://evomap.ai/blog/hermes-agent-evolver-similarity-analy...) about the similarities.
Plagiarism is bad, even in the age of AI, whether perpetrated by SV or China. If credit is due, give it. Else, all it costs you is your credibility. If credit is not due, make an official statement as such. It's absurd to take (seemingly valid) criticism and sloppily paint over it."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nous","research","plagiarism"],"value":"Nous Research edits GitHub issue to remove plagiarism claims about Hermes Agent"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/issues/10232"}},"_tags":["comment","author_0hijinks","story_48187581"],"author":"0hijinks","comment_text":"I don't have an axe to grind, but this story piqued my interest. So here's some more context:
- SunJun8's original issue text is still available at the linked issue. The gist is that Nous Research's Hermes appears derivative of (or heavily inspired by) EvoMap's Evolver (https://github.com/EvoMap/evolver), but without attribution.
- Issues #17688 and #27266 repeat this request for attribution.
- teknium1 retitled the original issue to "." and edited the issue text to "."
- Nous Research deleted comments from 4 users, including the issue submitter, and blocked all of them.
- No formal response has been given by teknium or the Nous Research project. It appears they are trying their darndest to brush it under the rug.
- EvoMap posted a whole manifesto (https://evomap.ai/blog/hermes-agent-evolver-similarity-analy...) about the similarities.
Plagiarism is bad, even in the age of AI, whether perpetrated by SV or China. If credit is due, give it. Else, all it costs you is your credibility. If credit is not due, make an official statement as such. It's absurd to take (seemingly valid) criticism and sloppily paint over it.","created_at":"2026-05-29T03:37:10Z","created_at_i":1780025830,"objectID":"48318706","parent_id":48187581,"story_id":48187581,"story_title":"Nous Research edits GitHub issue to remove plagiarism claims about Hermes Agent","story_url":"https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/issues/10232","updated_at":"2026-06-18T16:49:11Z"}],"hitsPerPage":20,"nbHits":4,"nbPages":1,"page":0,"params":"query=Nous+Research+plagiarism&hitsPerPage=20&advancedSyntax=true&analyticsTags=backend","processingTimeMS":33,"processingTimingsMS":{"_request":{"queue":201,"roundTrip":28},"fetch":{"query":18,"scanning":12,"total":31},"total":33},"query":"Nous Research plagiarism","serverTimeMS":234}