I Added a Second Local Agent This Week. Here Is the Receipt for Every Human Decision Behind It.
I trialed a second local coding agent, Hermes from Nous Research, on my own MacBook, pointed at the same local Qwen 3.8 model I already run. Installed additively so nothing already working could break, governed with manual approvals, then tested until it proved it behaves. Here is the trial, in tables and screenshots, plus a receipt for the human hours behind writing it up.
This week I trialed a second local coding agent, Hermes from Nous Research, on my own MacBook Pro M3 Max, pointed at the same local Qwen 3.8 model I already run. I installed it additively, so nothing already working could break, governed it with manual approvals, and did not stop until it proved it behaves. Here is the trial, in tables and screenshots.
