oh-my-hermes vs Vibe-Skills
The two are close in size: 1.7k stars for oh-my-hermes, 3.3k for Vibe-Skills. Over the days we have tracked them oh-my-hermes moved +90.1% and Vibe-Skills +42.6%, so oh-my-hermes is growing faster right now.
They split the axes: oh-my-hermes leads on model freedom and setup ease, Vibe-Skills on context depth.
Stars and commit dates come from our own daily tracking. The six axes are read off each project's documentation by our review pipeline, so they describe what a project says about itself, not what we measured in its code.
Where they stand today
Provides a local-first operating layer for Hermes that enforces explicit evidence boundaries and verification gates while keeping executors and provider access observable.
- Stars
- 1.7k
- Tracked growth
- +90.1%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 57m ago
- Language
- Python
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Your API key, per-use
Orchestrates and verifies multi-step work by discovering and assigning local Skill modules and enforcing end-to-end checks with resumable state.
- Stars
- 3.3k
- Tracked growth
- +42.6%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 12d ago
- Language
- Python
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Cost to run
- Free, self-hosted
Six axes, head to head
Each axis runs 0 to 5. The label under a score is what that project's own docs claim, not a category average.
| Axis | oh-my-hermes | Vibe-Skills |
|---|---|---|
Context depth How much of your codebase it sees before it answers: the open diff, the diff plus related files, or the whole repository. | ●●●●● Diff + related files | ●●●●● Whole-repo analysis |
Noise control How it keeps output volume down — severity thresholds, deduplication, incremental runs over new commits only. | ●●●●● Evidence gates | ●●●●● Severity gating |
Customization How far it bends to your team: custom rules, prompts, style guides, per-path config. | ●●●●● Configurable workflows | ●●●●● Config file options |
Privacy Whether your code stays on your own infrastructure: fully local, self-hostable, or cloud API only. | ●●●●● Self-hostable | ●●●●● Self-hostable |
Model freedom Whether you can point it at any provider, or it is wired to one. | ●●●●● Bring your own key | ●●●●● Single provider |
Setup ease What it takes to get a first useful run out of it. | ●●●●● One-command setup | ●●●●● Config + docs |
Which one to pick
Pick oh-my-hermes if…
Local-first control plane — pick OMH when you want an installable, evidence-first workflow catalog and gating layer for Hermes that keeps execution ownership explicit and configurable.
- Model freedom: Bring your own key (5/5 against 1/5)
- Setup ease: One-command setup (5/5 against 3/5)
Pick Vibe-Skills if…
Privacy-first — runs on your host and coordinates local Skill libraries to plan, execute, and verify complex multi-step tasks.
- Context depth: Whole-repo analysis (5/5 against 3/5)
What people want from each one
rlaope/oh-my-hermes
foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills
Questions people ask
Is oh-my-hermes better than Vibe-Skills?
They split the axes: oh-my-hermes leads on model freedom and setup ease, Vibe-Skills on context depth. oh-my-hermes is worth picking when local-first control plane — pick OMH when you want an installable, evidence-first workflow catalog and gating layer for Hermes that keeps execution ownership explicit and configurable.
Which of oh-my-hermes and Vibe-Skills keeps my code private?
oh-my-hermes: Self-hostable (4/5). Vibe-Skills: Self-hostable (4/5).
What does each one cost to run?
oh-my-hermes: Your API key, per-use. Vibe-Skills: Free, self-hosted.
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