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MerlionOS/merlion-agent

Self-improving AI coding agent — Rust port of hermes-agent. `brew install MerlionOS/merlion/merlion-agent` or `cargo install merlion-agent`.

Rust MIT GitHub ↗ site ↗
★ 1
stars
100
AI relevance
35
solo dev
1
tool sigs

SUMMARY AI summary by gpt-5-mini

Merlion Agent is a compact, statically-linked Rust CLI reimplementation of Nous Research’s hermes-agent, intended for developers and power users who want an interactive, tool-capable LLM agent locally or bridged to messaging platforms. It’s an early MVP that focuses on core agent workflows rather than Hermes’ broader feature set. Key features: - Interactive streaming chat with tool calls and tool-output rendering - OpenAI-compatible LLM client supporting 200+ models and native adapters (Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, Vertex AI, etc.) - Built-in tools (bash, read/write/edit, ls, grep, web_fetch, memory, skill management) - SQLite-backed persistent sessions with FTS5 search and per-session memory files - Skill system, tool-approval gate, cron scheduler, MCP integration, Telegram/Discord/Slack gateways - Portable install/build, MIT license Not feature-complete; see ROADMAP.md for planned items.

AI Coding Tools Used

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Claude Code CLAUDE.md

DETECTED Detected AI stack

AI-related keywords found in this repo's description, topics, or README summary — grouped by category. Each badge links to the corresponding ranking detail page.

🧠 LLM providers (4)
Anthropic Bedrock OpenAI Gemini
🤝 Agent frameworks (1)
MCP
🤖 LLM models (1)
Gemini
💾 Databases (1)
SQLite

GitHub Topics

#ai-agent #anthropic #cli #coding-agent #gemini #homebrew #llm #mcp #model-context-protocol #openai #rust

Language breakdown (by bytes)

Ruby
0.2%
Rust
99%
Shell
0.8%

Why this is classified AI-related

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Total AI relevance score: 100 / 100

Position among AI repos in the same language

We track 554 Rust repos, of which 443 score 40 or above on AI relevance. 134 have more stars than this one (top 24.4%), and 0 score higher (top 0.2%).

Owner

Account
MerlionOS
Type
Organization
Followers
0

Dates

Created on GitHub 2026-05-18
Last push 2026-05-22
First seen here 2026-05-18
Last fetched 2026-08-19 16:14

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