hermes-swe-agent: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

hermes-swe-agent CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from Deepank308/hermes-swe-agent. It costs 3,626 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository guide for Hermes, a service that starts AI coding agents from Linear tickets in remote AWS development environments.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for developing or operating the agent service, its AWS setup scripts, Docker application stack, and ticket-triggered workflow.
Why use it?
It explains how tickets, cloud machines, containers, and the coding agent connect, reducing mistakes when changing the infrastructure.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is Deepank308/hermes-swe-agent's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on hermes-swe-agent itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything hermes-swe-agent configures →

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /home/ubuntu/.cyrus/sessions.json.

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.03626 $0.03626
Opus 5.5 $0.01450 $0.01450
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00725 $0.00725
Haiku 4.5 $0.00363 $0.00363

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6834eca398be, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hermes-swe-agent CLAUDE.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 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.

CLAUDE.md · 253 lines

How it starts

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CLAUDE.md

AI Agent Infrastructure — Remote Claude Code dev environments triggered by Linear tickets.

Architecture

Linear webhook ──HTTPS──▶ Cloudflare Tunnel ──▶ Orchestrator (t4g.nano)
                                                  │
                                         VPC private IP
                                                  │
                                    ┌─────────────▼─────────────┐
                                    │  Agent EC2 (m6i.xlarge)   │
                                    │  ┌──────────────────────┐ │
                                    │  │ agent-service :3000  │ │
                                    │  │ Claude Code CLI      │ │
                                    │  │ Docker (app stack)   │ │
                                    │  └──────────────────────┘ │
                                    └───────────────────────────┘
hermes-swe/
├── ami/                  # EC2 provisioning & firewall scripts
│   ├── setup.sh          # Base AMI deps: Docker, Node 24, pnpm, yarn, gh, Claude Code
│   ├── prepare-ami.sh    # Pre-bake AMI: clone repos, delegate to repo scripts
│   ├── init-instance.sh  # Boot-time init: pull code, delegate to repo scripts
│   ├── firewall.sh       # Outbound allowlist (ipset/iptables)
│   ├── allowed-domains.txt  # Base firewall domains (shared across all repos)
│   ├── preview-launch.sh # Generic: reads launch.json, runs preview, creates Cloudflare tunnel
│   ├── <name>/           # Repo-specific scripts (scriptsDir: "ami/<name>")
│   │   ├── setup.sh      # Yarn 1.22.22, Turbo, kernel tuning, Docker pulls
│   │   ├── prepare.sh    # Build app, pre-commit, Docker compose build
│   │   ├── pre-agent.sh  # Start db16 early (MCP servers need DB)
│   │   ├── post-agent.sh # Docker services, yarn build
│   │   ├── launch.json   # Preview configurations (copied to workspace/.claude/)
│   │   ├── preview/      # Preview scripts (copied to workspace/.claude/preview/)
│   │   └── allowed-domains.txt  # App-specific firewall domains
│   └── hermes-swe/       # hermes-swe scripts (scriptsDir: "ami/hermes-swe")
│       └── post-agent.sh # Auto-detect package manager, install deps
├── agent-service/        # Runs ON agent EC2 — manages Claude sessions
│   ├── src/index.ts      # HTTP server (/run, /message, /stop, /health)
│   ├── src/session.ts    # Claude session lifecycle
│   └── prompts/system.md # System prompt — routes tickets to workflow skills
├── orchestrator/         # Runs ON orchestrator EC2 — webhook + EC2 lifecycle
│   ├── src/index.ts      # Fastify server, webhook routes, OAuth
│   ├── src/webhook-handler.ts  # Linear webhook → provision → run → teardown
│   ├── src/ec2.ts        # Launch/terminate EC2 instances
│   ├── src/session-store.ts    # S3-backed session state (cached in memory)
│   └── src/slack.ts      # Threaded Slack notifications
├── skills/               # Workflow skills — copied to ~/.claude/skills/ at boot
│   ├── full-development/ # Features, enhancements, refactors (plan → TDD → PR)
│   ├── debugging/        # Bug reports, Sentry issues (investigate → fix → PR)
│   └── simple-question/  # Questions, clarifications (research → answer)
├── scripts/
│   ├── aws-setup.sh      # Create AWS resources (SGs, S3, Secrets Manager)
│   ├── bake-ami.sh       # Automated AMI baking (--repo flag, run from orchestrator)
│   ├── setup-orchestrator.sh   # Fresh orchestrator EC2 setup
│   └── deploy-orchestrator.sh  # Deploy updates to orchestrator
├── repos.json            # Repo configs (amiName, scriptsDir, workspaceDir, secrets, instanceType)
└── package.json          # Root (pnpm workspace)

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hermes-swe-agent CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Deepank308/hermes-swe-agent (12 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,626 tokens to every session, about $0.0145 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 2026-08-30.

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