# iamlukethedev/Herald-OS

> An operating system built around the Hermes AI agent: instead of menus and folders, the user talks to the agent, which opens apps, manages files and runs scheduled tasks. Available for macOS, Fedora, Arch and as a virtual machine.

- Magnitude: 2.6 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 90 total · +12 stars measured 2026-10-07, 17:09–18:51 UTC, ≈ 14 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: TypeScript · License: MIT · Created: 2026-10-06 · Last push: 2026-10-07
- GitHub: https://github.com/iamlukethedev/Herald-OS · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/iamlukethedev/Herald-OS

## Useful for

- Install Herald OS on an Apple Silicon Mac and control the system via Hermes
- Build a bootable USB from the Fedora-based Herald OS image and boot from it
- Run the full system in a virtual machine on Apple Silicon to try it out

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-07 (UTC), 17:09–18:51: 78 → 90 stars (+12). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +14 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 1 day old and already has 90 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #172.
- About 30 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @BunsDev (852 followers), @keysemails (215 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 10
- Issues and pull requests: 2
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 7 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 7
- Latest release: v0.1.0-alpha.1 (2026-10-06)

## Stars per day, last 4 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-10-07: 0, 0, 0, 12

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #172

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-07 19:04 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.