Atomic Agent crushes Hermes on GAIA: +11% accuracy, 1.6× faster, MIT open source

In a side-by-side on 53 GAIA Level 1 tasks, Atomic Agent solved 37 in 3h12m vs Hermes's 31 in 5h10m. Examples: Audre Lorde poem indent in 7.6 min (Hermes blank), Vietnamese specimen city in 33s (Hermes 7.3 min no answer), dinosaur nominator in 57s (Hermes wrong after 11 min). Key tech: byte-stable prompt prefix for KV-cache reuse, compact tool-call JSON array, no-progress guard prevents spinning. All on same hardware/model.

• benchmark
• Hermes
• 效率
• KV cache
• Atomic Agent
• GAIA