hermes

hermes is an agent for coding agents from zhhjluka/hm-arch. It costs 0 tokens per session (859 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Setup instructions for connecting Hermes, a coding agent, to HM-Arch's memory provider. The instructions cover installing HM-Arch, configuring Hermes, creating its SQLite database, and checking the installation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to install HM-Arch for Hermes, register the native plugin bridge, configure Hermes, and run status or diagnostic checks.
Why use it?
They explain how to make Hermes use HM-Arch for stored project memory instead of leaving the integration setup unclear. They also describe supported installation paths and configuration locations.

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/zhhjluka/hm-arch/hermes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zhhjluka/hm-arch

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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 859 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 $0.00859
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00430
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00172
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00086

Measured 5d ago against content hash a7bfefee66a0, 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 5d 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 · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hermes Agent setup (HM-Arch)

Install HM-Arch and configure Hermes to use the native HM-Arch Memory Provider. Hermes integration uses native plugin registration. hm-arch install hermes creates the HM-Arch plugin bridge, updates $HERMES_HOME/config.yaml, and initializes the SQLite database.

Install HM-Arch

From a GitHub Release wheel (current v2.0.4):

python3.12 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
python -m pip install /path/to/hm_arch-2.0.4-py3-none-any.whl

From PyPI:

pip install hm-arch
# or:
pipx install hm-arch

From npm:

npm install -g @hm-arch/installer

The npm package can install and diagnose Hermes through its managed runtime:

hm-arch-install install hermes
hm-arch-install status hermes
hm-arch-install doctor hermes

Hermes home

Hermes reads configuration from:

  • $HERMES_HOME/config.yaml when HERMES_HOME is set, or
  • ~/.hermes/config.yaml by default
export HERMES_HOME="${HERMES_HOME:-$HOME/.hermes}"
mkdir -p "$HERMES_HOME"

Configure HM-Arch

Recommended:

hm-arch install hermes
# or:
hm-arch-install install hermes

Then restart Hermes so the running agent process loads the provider plugin.

Manual equivalent:

Edit $HERMES_HOME/config.yaml. Example minimal configuration:

memory:
  provider: hm-arch
plugins:
  hm-arch:
    db_path: hm_arch_memory.db
  • memory.provider: hm-arch selects the HM-Arch Memory Provider.
  • plugins.hm-arch.db_path is relative to HERMES_HOME unless you use an absolute path. Default database file: hm_arch_memory.db under Hermes home.

Enable the HM-Arch plugin in Hermes Agent per Hermes documentation (plugin discovery uses the installed hm_arch package and hm_arch.integrations.hermes.register).

Provider conflicts

If another external provider is already configured (e.g. mem0), HM-Arch refuses to register silently. Set memory.provider to hm-arch explicitly when you intend to switch.

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 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. 5d ago First seen · 152 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a7bfefee66a0

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hermes is an agent published in the GitHub repository zhhjluka/hm-arch (18 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 859 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.