Hermes-Desktop testing.instructions.md

A set of rules for writing unit tests, which check small parts of a program separately, and for setting up and running their test projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding unit tests, creating test projects, or checking that tests build and run correctly.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents consistent expectations for test names, project structure, builds, and test commands.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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 instructions/redwoodog/hermes-desktop/testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RedWoodOG/Hermes-Desktop

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 2,180 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,180 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.02180 $0.02180
Opus 5 $0.01090 $0.01090
Sonnet 5 $0.00436 $0.00436
Haiku 4.5 $0.00218 $0.00218

Measured 3d ago against content hash c9e74497cc09, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

Hermes-Desktop testing.instructions.md scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- Use latest stable versions; do not hard-code version numbers in instructions -->
Desktop/HermesDesktop/.github/instructions/testing.instructions.md · 279 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 3d ago First seen · 279 lines · 2,180 tokens per session scan C c9e74497cc09

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Hermes-Desktop testing.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository RedWoodOG/Hermes-Desktop (178 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 2,180 tokens to every session, about $0.0109 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.