Note: The Hermes repo contains no explicit statement saying "we don't use LangChain because…".

This article works on two levels: the industry-wide common reasons (general analysis) and the orientation empirically visible in Hermes's code (with source-backed evidence and citations).

1. Premise: The Core of an Agent Loop Is Actually Simple

Many people assume orchestrating an agent requires a "framework," but the core loop is essentially just a while:

while not termination_condition: