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**Hermes Agent** is gaining attention as a leading open agent stack with features like self-improving skills, persistent memory, and a self-improvement loop. Its new **Manim skill** enables generation of math/technical animations, expanding agent capabilities. The Hermes ecosystem is rapidly growing with GUI tools, WebUI, HUD updates, OAuth support, and integrations. An open training-data movement for agents is emerging, focusing on sharing reusable behavioral data and harness traces. Meanwhile, **Anthropic's Claude Code** faces distribution and policy challenges, with reports of restrictions and unreliability impacting third-party coding agents, highlighting issues with subscription economics for always-on agents. *"Claude Code now errors if used to analyze Claude Code source"* and *"basically unusable"* are key community sentiments.