The project in question that is asserting Hermes is copying their ideas:

https://github.com/EvoMap/evolver

The timeline here is pretty telling and it looks like Hermes basically points their coding agent at evolver and says "reimplement this yourself." A few days later Hermes magically sports a nearly identical feature.

https://evomap.ai/blog/hermes-agent-evolver-similarity-analy...