Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to mudrii/hermesd. 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/mudrii/hermesd/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mudrii/hermesdWrote 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/mudrii/hermesd/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/mudrii/hermesd/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/mudrii/hermesd/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/mudrii/hermesd/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/mudrii/hermesd/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 | $0.01667 | $0.01667 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00667 | $0.00667 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00333 | $0.00333 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00167 | $0.00167 |
Grade A, and why
hermesd 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 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.
This is a copy
95% identical to hermesd CLAUDE.md — 112 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Overview
hermesd is a standalone TUI monitoring dashboard for Hermes Agent. It reads data from ~/.hermes/ (SQLite DB, JSON/YAML config, log files, skill directories) and displays it in a live-updating Rich terminal interface.
Key constraint: hermesd is read-only — it must never write to ~/.hermes/ or import any hermes-agent code. It's installed and runs independently.
Build & Test
uv venv .venv --python 3.11
source .venv/bin/activate
uv sync --locked --all-extras --dev
uv run pytest tests/ -q -ra --tb=short -W error::ResourceWarning --cov=hermesd --cov-report=term-missing # full suite
uv run pytest tests/ -q --cov=hermesd --cov-report=term-missing # coverage (CI gate: 96%)
uv run ruff check . # lint
uv run ruff format --check . # format check
uv run mypy hermesd scripts # type check
uv run python -m compileall hermesd # compile check
uv run python scripts/pip_audit_gate.py # dependency audit (classified gate)
uv lock --check # lockfile freshness
uv build # package build
python -m venv /tmp/hermesd-wheel-smoke
/tmp/hermesd-wheel-smoke/bin/python -m pip install dist/hermesd-*.whl
/tmp/hermesd-wheel-smoke/bin/hermesd --version
/tmp/hermesd-wheel-smoke/bin/python -I -m hermesd --version
/tmp/hermesd-wheel-smoke/bin/python scripts/installed_smoke.py
python -m venv /tmp/hermesd-sdist-smoke
/tmp/hermesd-sdist-smoke/bin/python -m pip install dist/hermesd-*.tar.gz
/tmp/hermesd-sdist-smoke/bin/hermesd --version
/tmp/hermesd-sdist-smoke/bin/python -I -m hermesd --version
/tmp/hermesd-sdist-smoke/bin/python scripts/installed_smoke.py
uv run twine check dist/* # package metadata
hermesd # run the dashboard
hermesd --hermes-home /path # custom hermes home
hermesd --profile coding # opt-in profile-scoped runtime data
hermesd --snapshot # one-shot overview to stdout
hermesd --snapshot-panel 10 # one-shot detail snapshot in text mode
hermesd --snapshot-panel 0 # panel 10 alias matching the interactive shortcut
hermesd --snapshot-panel 12 # one-shot detail snapshot for any registered panel
hermesd --snapshot-format json # machine-readable full-state snapshot
hermesd --log-tail-bytes 8192 # cap per-refresh log reads for large files
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.
- 1mo ago Changed · +25 tokens per session 905bae40d51e
- 1mo ago Changed · +13 lines · +265 tokens per session 5755d7801958
- 1mo ago First seen · 99 lines · 1,377 tokens per session scan A 3e9e0a691d2b
hermesd AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mudrii/hermesd (120 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 1,667 tokens to every session, about $0.0067 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to hermesd CLAUDE.md, differing in 112 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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