Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/aaif-goose/goose/vs/fathah/hermes-desktop
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/aaif-goose/goose/vs/fathah/hermes-desktop.md
Description: goose and hermes-desktop share 9 technologies: Vite, React, Electron, Tailwind CSS, Radix UI, react-syntax-highlighter, Lucide, react-markdown, and remark-gfm. goose is written in Rust and hermes-desktop in TypeScript.

# goose vs hermes-desktop

goose and hermes-desktop share 9 technologies: Vite, React, Electron, Tailwind CSS, Radix UI, react-syntax-highlighter, Lucide, react-markdown, and remark-gfm. goose is written in Rust and hermes-desktop in TypeScript.

- [aaif-goose/goose](https://seerepo.com/r/aaif-goose/goose): an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- [fathah/hermes-desktop](https://seerepo.com/r/fathah/hermes-desktop): Desktop Companion for Hermes Agent

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Vite, React, Electron, Tailwind CSS, Radix UI, react-syntax-highlighter, Lucide, react-markdown, remark-gfm
- Only in goose: axum, sqlx, lru, AIOHTTP, Tokio, axum-server, React Router, Express, MCP, console, cliclack, comfy-table, indicatif, keyring, oauth2, rmcp, agent-client-protocol, aws-sdk-bedrockruntime, llama-cpp-2, safemlx-lm, agent-client-protocol-schema, aws-sdk-sagemakerruntime, candle-core, candle-nn, candle-transformers, hf-hub, llama-cpp-sys-2, safemlx, safemlx-lm-utils, tiktoken-rs, tokenizers, minijinja, v_htmlescape, image, docx-rs, lopdf, pulldown-cmark, qrcode, symphonia, umya-spreadsheet, zip, schemars, jsonschema, tracing, tracing-futures, tracing-subscriber, OpenTelemetry, tracing-opentelemetry, opentelemetry-appender-tracing, opentelemetry-otlp, opentelemetry-stdout, tracing-appender, class-variance-authority, tailwind-merge, react-toastify, TanStack, Framer, @mcp-ui/client, react-select, @agentclientprotocol/sdk, katex, rehype-katex, remark-breaks, remark-math, turndown, Zod, electron-log, electron-squirrel-startup
- Only in hermes-desktop: SQLite, react-three, three, react-hot-toast, motion, troika-three-text, highlight.js, js-yaml

## Side by side

| | goose | hermes-desktop |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 424,209 lines written, 1,022 code files | 203,869 lines written, 622 code files |
| Who writes it | 4.9% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Amp, Codex, and Warp | 19.3% of its commits signed by AI. With Codex, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor |
| Activity | Last push November 13, 2026, 5,985 commits, 56,507 stars | Last push October 13, 2026, 1,070 commits, 14,551 stars |
| Tests | 239 test files. 20.2% of its code files have a test that imports them | 330 test files. 37.6% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, goose or hermes-desktop?

goose, with 424,209 lines written; hermes-desktop has 203,869.

The proof: [aaif-goose/goose's code at commit 3c50f80](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/tree/3c50f8002b8f71e60c4b7ad32d4e013f23045605)

### Which has more GitHub stars, goose or hermes-desktop?

goose, with 56,507 stars; hermes-desktop has 14,551.

The proof: [aaif-goose/goose on GitHub](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose)

### Which has more tests, goose or hermes-desktop?

hermes-desktop, with 330 test files; goose has 239.

The proof: [fathah/hermes-desktop's code at commit 1710248](https://github.com/fathah/hermes-desktop/tree/171024862c849475634d217a5635fedff796360c)

### Which was updated more recently, goose or hermes-desktop?

goose: its last push was on November 13, 2026, and hermes-desktop's on October 13, 2026.

The proof: [aaif-goose/goose's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, goose or hermes-desktop?

hermes-desktop: an AI signed 19.3% of its commits, with Codex, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor; in goose, 4.9%.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in fathah/hermes-desktop](https://seerepo.com/r/fathah/hermes-desktop/ai)

## Sources

- aaif-goose/goose: Read on November 13, 2026, at commit 3c50f80 (https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/tree/3c50f8002b8f71e60c4b7ad32d4e013f23045605)
- fathah/hermes-desktop: Read on November 9, 2026, at commit 1710248 (https://github.com/fathah/hermes-desktop/tree/171024862c849475634d217a5635fedff796360c)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.