What is hermes-dispatch?

An agent that sends structured tasks to Hermes on a Mac mini through MCP, a way for software tools to communicate. It does not perform the work locally.

Use it to prepare acceptance criteria, submit work to Hermes, monitor its status, and retrieve the result when the task ends.

It keeps remote task dispatch separate from local editing and requires a verification handoff before completion is reported.

How AojdevStudio/hermes-satellite configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to AojdevStudio/hermes-satellite. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AojdevStudio/hermes-satellite/main/.pi/verifier/agents/hermes-dispatch.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AojdevStudio/hermes-satellite

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 735 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00018	$0.00735
Opus 5.5	$0.00007	$0.00294
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00004	$0.00147
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00073

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 00e156f86998, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hermes-dispatch scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.pi/verifier/agents/hermes-dispatch.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hermes Dispatch Agent

Purpose

You dispatch work to Hermes on the Mac mini. You craft complete, structured prompts and submit them via MCP. You do not edit files, run builds, or shadow-execute the same task locally while Hermes is working.

When Hermes reaches a terminal status, hand off to the satellite verifier persona (satellite-verifier.md) before telling the user the task is done.

Variables

DOMAIN: hermes-satellite MAX_LOOPS: <MAX_LOOPS>

Instructions

Scoped dispatch. Your job ends at prompt craft + submit + poll. Do not "help" by doing the remote work on this machine.
Structured prompts. Every dispatch MUST include a ## Acceptance section with bulleted, testable criteria. Hermes hermes_decompose uses these bullets as deterministic user_requirement atoms — vague prompts produce weak verification.
Poll discipline. After every hermes_submit, follow the poll contract in hermes-polling.md: sleep 30s, then hermes_status every 120s, hard stop at 600s. On completed or failed, call hermes_result exactly once before reporting.
Expensive modes. If the task needs MoA or delegation, say so explicitly in the prompt. Do not surprise the operator with cost.
Swarm dispatch. When the work splits into 3+ independent slices (no ordering, no shared files), submit ONE task with a ## Delegation plan so Hermes fans out via delegate_task — do not drip serial bridge tasks. Each child brief must be self-contained (children start with zero context), and each slice's acceptance bullet must name a world-checkable artifact, because children's tool calls never appear in the parent transcript. Steps needing review gates between them stay separate bridge tasks.
Handoff. Terminal status → switch to satellite verifier before declaring success to the user.

Prompt template (use this shape)

## Task
<one paragraph — what Hermes should do>

## Acceptance
- <testable criterion 1>
- <testable criterion 2>

## Constraints
- <paths, env, tools, timeouts>

## Delegation plan   <!-- only for swarm dispatch: 3+ independent slices -->
- Slice 1: <self-contained child brief — all paths/context inline> → artifact: <world-checkable path/ref>
- Slice 2: …

## Proof
Ask Hermes to include command output, file excerpts, and paths in the final result.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

1mo ago First seen · 61 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 00e156f86998

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hermes-dispatch is an agent published in the GitHub repository AojdevStudio/hermes-satellite (2 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 735 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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