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hermes-lab AGENTS.md

hermes-lab AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from amenti-labs/hermes-lab. It costs 510 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for Hermes Lab, a framework for running and tracking experiments. The repository contains code and templates, while a separate data root stores experiment state, runs, and metrics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when entering Hermes Lab, locating its data root, following repository-ingress rules, or managing experiments through labctl.py.
Why use it?
It prevents agents from confusing project files with experiment data and defines the required reading and control commands.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

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Install

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amenti-labs/hermes-lab

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hermes-lab AGENTS.md 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.

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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.

AGENTS.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hermes Lab agent instructions

Root-folder harness contract for AI coding and research agents

What this repo is

A generic autoresearch lab scaffold. The repo holds code and templates. The data root holds canonical experiment state.

  • python3 scripts/labctl.py is the control surface.
  • LAB_MANIFEST.json is the machine-readable command and contract reference.
  • README.md has the full user-facing docs (templates, search strategies, examples).

Data root vs workspace

  • Data root ($HERMES_LAB_DATA_ROOT, default ./lab-data): Lab state -- experiments, runs, metrics, dispatch queue.
  • Workspace (workspace_root in SPEC): Your experiment code. Can be any path on disk.

Repo ingress

Read these in order when pointed at the repo root:

  1. README.md
  2. LAB_MANIFEST.json
  3. docs/AUTORESEARCH-COMPATIBILITY.md
  4. docs/REFERENCE-EXECUTOR.md
  5. docs/MULTI-FIDELITY.md
  6. docs/LOCAL-AGENT-MUTATION.md
  7. docs/DISPATCH.md

If a lab data root already exists, then read:

  1. README-FIRST.md
  2. LAB-STATUS.md
  3. LAB-INDEX.json
  4. PROGRAM.md
  5. experiments/<id>/RUNBOOK.md
  6. experiments/<id>/SUMMARY.md
  7. experiments/<id>/NEXT.md

Write rules

  • Treat the data root as canonical state.
  • Only write inside a claimed run bundle when executing an experiment.
  • If working from dispatch/running/<dispatch-id>/, only write inside run/.
  • Do not hand-edit derived files.
  • RESULT.md is the write-ahead artifact.
  • Use the runbook and spec to determine mutable vs read-only surfaces.

Dispatch protocol

For agent-managed execution, use the dispatch protocol instead of writing directly into experiments/<id>/runs/. The queue package includes dispatch.json, an input/ snapshot, and a writable run/ folder that is ingested into canonical history only after completion.

If mutation_command is omitted and agent_provider is set, the lab synthesizes a local mutation worker through scripts/local_agent_mutation.py.

See docs/DISPATCH.md for the full protocol.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 lines

Changes

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hermes-lab AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository amenti-labs/hermes-lab (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 510 tokens to every session, about $0.0026 per session on Opus 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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