Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to jscholz/hermes-agent-workflow. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jscholz/hermes-agent-workflow/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jscholz/hermes-agent-workflowWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/jscholz/hermes-agent-workflow/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/jscholz/hermes-agent-workflow/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/jscholz/hermes-agent-workflow/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/jscholz/hermes-agent-workflow/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/jscholz/hermes-agent-workflow/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00315 | $0.00315 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00126 | $0.00126 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00063 | $0.00063 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00032 | $0.00032 |
Grade A, and why
hermes-agent-workflow 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 2mo 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.
What it actually says
AGENTS.md — hermes-agent-workflow (repo-root)
This is a thin pointer file. The substantive guidance lives elsewhere:
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CLAUDE.md— the install conductor. If a user opens Claude Code in this repo and says "install this for me," CLAUDE.md is the script Claude follows. Read it first if you're doing install work. -
example.AGENTS.md— the starter tool-hints file that becomes~/.hermes/AGENTS.mdafter install. This is what the running hermes agent reads on every session. Edit it after install to match your toolset. -
README.md— design philosophy, the explicit state-enumeration table (what's versioned, what's encrypted, what's per-host), the skills_sync mechanism, encrypted-backup model. -
CONTRIBUTING.md— framework vs. instance file ownership rules; useful when sending PRs back to upstreamjscholz/hermes-agent-workflow.
If you're a contributor-Claude (not an installer-Claude), most
useful patterns: keep PRs scoped to single concerns, follow the PII
hygiene in ~/code/hermes-agent-private/skills/pii-scrub-public-sync/
(if you're pulling private→public), and don't push without explicit
user consent.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 28 lines · 315 tokens per session scan A 4d952ba4ae8c
hermes-agent-workflow AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jscholz/hermes-agent-workflow (3 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 315 tokens to every session, about $0.0013 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 2026-08-31.
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| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| hermes-agent-workflow AGENTS.mdjscholz/hermes-agent-workflow | Instructions file | 3 | 4mo ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 315 | Codex, OpenCode |
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| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
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