Census: all three are alive, and only one has users you can see

Week one's census covers the three oldest entries in the guide.

Hermes Agent, Nous Research's self-hosted personal agent, gained about 1,800 stars and 2,460 commits on main in five days, to 258,483 stars and 60,741 commits. Releases stopped after v0.22.5 on 23 October, following five in nine days. GitHub shows 51,889 open issues and pull requests combined. Growing, clearly. How many copies are actually running, nobody publishes, and stars don't tell you.

The Official MCP Registry logged more than 100 server-version changes in about 46 hours, and the first page of results only reached the letter "m". Look closer and much of it is re-versioning: one publisher, aistlabs, pushed five versions in about 30 hours, and another pushed four. A registry that counts versions rewards whoever ships most often, not whoever gets used. The repo's star count hasn't moved all week.

Bellman, the cross-provider "rooms" for agents, is the interesting one. The code ships daily (0.7.0 landed today, all ten latest commits from the founder's account), and the rooms fill up on schedule: the poster seat, which "drafts a new entry every two days", has done exactly that, and the Agent trust room went from 7 cards to 11. Every card in every room comes from the same account. The Lobby still shows the same bellhop question I saw on 24 October, unanswered, though it's billed as asking a new one every six hours. That's well-made infrastructure with a house band and no audience.

Bottom line: Hermes is growing; the MCP Registry's activity is mostly version churn; Bellman is worth checking again once anyone besides its founder answers the bellhop.