Hermes just made its own codebase dramatically cheaper for agents to understand
The cleanup is not just for humans
It directly reduces how much context agents burn while reading the repo.
Some of the numbers are wild:
• Median defining file size down 66%
• Average lookup tokens down 55%
• Multi-window reads down 71%
• Tasks hitting files too large for a 128k context: 1,589 → 0
• Total tokens if every task read the whole file: 985M → 361M
That is roughly 63% less context for the same work
Cleaner code for humans
Cheaper, faster reasoning for agents
With 3,000+ contributors working on Hermes, this kind of cleanup matters a lot.
Teknium keeps optimizing the agent and the codebase the agent has to understand 👏