hermes

hermes is an agent for coding agents from Obedience-Corp/festival. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,751 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

An agent that runs Festival, a command-line tool for working through software tasks in a campaign directory, using the project's AGENTS.md instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialize a Festival campaign, read its instructions, run the task loop, and diagnose missing or unexpected program installations.
Why use it?
It connects Hermes to Festival's task loop and checks that the required command-line programs are installed and available.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/obedience-corp/festival/hermes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Obedience-Corp/festival

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,751 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.01751
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00875
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00350
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00175

Measured today against content hash 34d115a8789f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

hermes scanned grade C with 2 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 today.

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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Obedience-Corp/festival/main/install.sh | bash

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Obedience-Corp/festival/main/install.sh | bash
docs/getting-started/agents/hermes.md · 171 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 171 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent runs Festival with no adapter and no plugin. It finds fest and camp on your PATH, reads the camp's AGENTS.md, and drives the loop with its terminal tool. This page is the shortest path from a machine with Hermes on it to a festival executing.

Order matters. Install the binaries first: a Hermes skills tap teaches the agent the vocabulary, but it does not install the CLIs.

1. Install Festival

Pick one:

# Homebrew
brew install --cask Obedience-Corp/tap/festival

# npm, pnpm, or bun
npm install -g @obedience-corp/festival

# Shell script
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Obedience-Corp/festival/main/install.sh | bash

Then check all three binaries answer:

fest --version
camp --version
festival --version

If either one is missing or resolves somewhere you did not expect, festival doctor reports the installer's view of your PATH, sources, and receipts. Full install options are on the installation page.

2. Open a camp

A camp is the directory Festival works in. Create one and stay at its root:

mkdir my-camp && cd my-camp
camp init

camp init writes the camp layout and an AGENTS.md describing it. That file is what tells Hermes where festivals live and which commands to use.

3. Add the skills tap

Festival publishes its 12 skills as a Hermes tap. Subscribe once, then install what you want:

hermes skills tap add Obedience-Corp/festival
hermes skills install Obedience-Corp/festival/skills/festival-intake --yes
hermes skills install Obedience-Corp/festival/skills/fest-planning --yes
hermes skills install Obedience-Corp/festival/skills/fest-execution --yes
hermes skills install Obedience-Corp/festival/skills/campaign-commit --yes

Add --category festival to any install line if you want them grouped in hermes skills list.

Install lines are spelled out here on purpose. A tap contributes nothing to hermes skills browse and nothing to hermes skills search, so you cannot discover these by browsing; you install them by name. The full list of names is in the tap's own README, and the four above are enough to start.

Read the full file on GitHub · 171 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.

  1. today Changed 34d115a8789f
  2. 4d ago First seen · 171 lines · 0 tokens per session scan C 78359e8c9fdf

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hermes is an agent published in the GitHub repository Obedience-Corp/festival (49 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,751 tokens. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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