hermes

hermes is an agent for coding agents from Shaivpidadi/FreeRideV3. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,189 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent-support investigation for Hermes, identified as Nous Research’s Hermes Agent, a Python-based coding and automation agent. It records an open GitHub issue asking how to add Hermes support.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as background when investigating Hermes integration with the FreeRide host or deciding how Hermes could be configured.
Why use it?
It gathers the available context when a project needs to understand or plan support for Hermes Agent. The issue itself provides little technical detail.

Agent

Part of the freeride plugin — 1 skill, 5 agents shipped together

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/shaivpidadi/freeridev3/hermes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Shaivpidadi/FreeRideV3

Or install freeride, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 5 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for hermes

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/shaivpidadi/freeridev3/hermes"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/shaivpidadi/freeridev3/hermes.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
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 1,189 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 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 $0.01189
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00594
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00238
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00119

Measured 4d ago against content hash 365327e4515f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hermes 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 4d 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.

docs/agents/hermes.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hermes — identification + config

Issue source

Shaivpidadi/FreeRide#11 — opened 2026-04-11 by lewdon, OPEN, no comments. Title: hermes agent support? Body (full): How to modify for hermes agent ?

The issue gives no link or context. Identification done by external search.

Identification

Hermes Agent by Nous Research — confidently identified.

  • Repo: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent
  • Stars: ~136k (top hit by far for hermes agent)
  • Description: "The agent that grows with you"
  • Homepage: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com
  • Language: Python
  • Topics include openclaw, confirming same ecosystem niche as the FreeRide v2 host. Multiple companion repos (hermes-webui, hermes-desktop, hermes-workspace, hermes-agent-self-evolution, etc.) and a "Cowork" app explicitly bundling "OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI" (iOfficeAI/AionUi, 23k stars).

Ruled out:

  • Nous Research Hermes models (e.g. Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B) — those are LLMs, not agents.
  • HermesJS / Hermes JS engine / unrelated hermes repos — none have agent semantics or audience overlap with FreeRide.

Configuration approach

Hermes is explicitly designed to accept arbitrary OpenAI-compatible base URLs. No reverse-engineering required.

Two-layer config:

  1. ~/.hermes/config.yaml — model + provider + base_url (durable user config)
  2. .env (project- or home-local) — API keys; takes precedence over yaml for credentials
  3. Project-local cli-config.yaml — overrides

Relevant fields (verbatim from cli-config.yaml.example in the repo):

model:
  default: "openrouter/free"
  provider: "custom"      # any OpenAI-compatible endpoint
  base_url: "http://localhost:11343/v1"
  # api_key: "your-key-here"   # optional; falls back to env

The example explicitly documents "custom" - Any other OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Set base_url below. with aliases ollama, vllm, llamacpp all mapping to custom. So Hermes' provider abstraction is FreeRide-shaped out of the box.

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 4d ago First seen · 90 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 365327e4515f

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hermes is an agent published in the GitHub repository Shaivpidadi/FreeRideV3 (42 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,189 tokens. 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 2026-08-30.