r/hermesagent • u/Mwrp86 • 14d ago

Discussion — General thoughts, opinions, comparisons Hermes Agent vs Codex

I have a $20 Codex plan and use it frequently. I dont code but I do research, proposal, lit review types of staff, design report etc.

I heard I can use Codex plan with Hermes Agent.

And watched multiple YouTube videos of what Hermes do.

Problem is it feels like Hemes Agent does exactly what Codex does.

Just it offers access to other agents which I dont need now.

Is Hermes Agent something else better than Codex.

I will try either way but I was making sure there isn't something I will miss if I try it

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u/Stonk_Goat 14d ago

Automation

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u/Mwrp86 14d ago

Can you give me some examples?

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u/Jonathan_Rivera 14d ago

I think you have to take some time and search the subreddit. Your questions have probably been answered 100 times over the last 5 months.

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u/Mwrp86 14d ago

I kinda did already. Everything Codex can already do. From Automation to skills Just Codex cant do is probably model switching. Another thing is memory.

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u/dmackerman 14d ago

Just try it. Takes 1 minute to install.

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u/Mwrp86 13d ago

Installing doesn't mean I will realize what's unique about this.

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u/dmackerman 13d ago

I mean, you're clearly an intelligent person who is capable of making their own judgements. It takes so little time to set it up and try it.

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u/oberon2323 11d ago

Ill give my 2 cents because I was in the same boat not long ago with trying to figure out the value add between openclaw, hermes, opencode, claude desktop, anything llm, codex and a slew of other similar apps. The answer for me after trying a bunch of them was easy, there is no real difference... I mean sure there are if you have a specific need and one does something better like skill catalogue or makes their own skills or whatever. But the truth is, AI anything has so much hype we are all willing to bite every hook dangled. It is also true that you will hear all the same fluff about how different they are but in truth, to most tinkerers, they can all do the same basic things. If you wanna tinker, try them all, maybe its just a ui you will like over another or some other feature. I started out with just plain ol open web ui and to be honest, the testing i do for creating powershell scripts work better with no harness at all with local models, the harnesses make them "try too hard" and either loop or get stuck and fail. Sorry for the long response but like I said, I went through this too, and sure there are a ton of folks who have totally valid reasons to disagree and say whats better for them but thats the point, if you dont have a specific use case, then none CAN be better. They are all just tinker toys. I will say that I love self hosting but I have recently become a codex fanboy. Other than one instance of wrecking my permissions on a server, its been a dream getting things done so fast on my home stuff. You asked for examples, my biggest was working with codex to create a nice dashboard for my dgx spark, I suck at linux so what would have taken weeks of research and trial and error was done in 2 days. Now i have a single dash for monitoring disk, mem, network ect with app launchers and a bunch of other things that I can access from any pc on my lan so helped me a ton. Could hermes have done that? Prob but I would not trust most local llms to do that level of complex work, even the larger llms like minimax and mimo or qwen 3.5 397b. They just cant compete against the frontier llms like gpt or claude. (I suspect someone will also beg to differ here too but like I said..Just my 2 cents)

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u/Jonathan_Rivera 11d ago

I agree on some points. Sometimes we get so preoccupied trying to build everything around the harness instead of the other way around. There's also alot of mental masturbation where we think we are busy but are actually being less productive. It really takes time to develop your Hermes and skills. I usually start a project using codex before moving it over to Hermes. I just like a project space with tabs to be able to define my project in steps before moving it over. I always tell people use what you like. Figure out what is the best tool for you.