Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to stepanov1975/hermes-local-knowledge. 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/stepanov1975/hermes-local-knowledge/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stepanov1975/hermes-local-knowledgeWrote 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/stepanov1975/hermes-local-knowledge/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/stepanov1975/hermes-local-knowledge/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/stepanov1975/hermes-local-knowledge/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/stepanov1975/hermes-local-knowledge/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/stepanov1975/hermes-local-knowledge/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 | $0.01869 | $0.01869 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00748 | $0.00748 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00374 | $0.00374 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00187 | $0.00187 |
Grade A, and why
hermes-local-knowledge 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Agent instructions for hermes-local-knowledge
These instructions apply to the whole repository.
Before editing
- Read
README.md,CONTRIBUTING.md, andmemory.md. - Check
git status --short --branch; preserve unrelated dirty work. - Keep changes focused. Runtime dependencies remain Python standard library only unless a documented product need justifies otherwise.
- Never commit generated/local state or secrets.
Official Hermes compatibility
- This is a public, independently distributed plugin. It must work with unmodified official Hermes releases within its documented supported version range.
- Do not require local Hermes core patches, forks, monkey-patching host internals, or deployment-specific behavior for plugin functionality or correctness. Use supported public extension APIs; document and verify any minimum Hermes version.
- When a host limitation prevents an optional feature, use a plugin-owned alternative or explicit, observable degradation. Do not claim complete event capture when the host may omit callbacks, or make a host modification the required solution.
- Verify compatibility on an unmodified official Hermes version, not only the maintainer's customized installation.
Documented public boundaries
- Package version is synchronized in
plugin.yaml,pyproject.toml, andhermes_local_knowledge/__init__.py. - The Python plugin entry point is
local_knowledge = hermes_local_knowledge.plugin;plugin.registeris the registration boundary. - Registration provides exactly five native tools (
knowledge_search,knowledge_get,knowledge_neighbors,knowledge_feedback,knowledge_usage_report) and three hooks (pre_llm_call,on_session_end,on_session_finalize) plus publictool_executionmiddleware on supported hosts. Older hosts without middleware use the explicitly best-effort fourth hook,post_tool_call, instead; do not register both capture paths. indexer.__all__is exactly:Artifact,Edge,IndexSettings,build_index,search_index,get_artifact,get_neighbors,main.python -m hermes_local_knowledge.cliis the primary standalone CLI.python -m hermes_local_knowledge.indexeris the preserved compatibility entry point.hermes local-knowledgeis the smaller install/doctor surface; its worker command is host-internal.- Preserve documented configuration aliases and defaults. Do not preserve undocumented private call shapes merely because a test once patched them.
- The three router-skill copies are an intentional packaging/install exception to DRY and must remain byte-identical with one equality assertion in
tests/test_public_contract.py.
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 · +7 lines · +193 tokens per session 0be786fd645a
- 1mo ago Changed · +18 lines · +90 tokens per session 8e3d4dda7748
- 1mo ago Changed · -13 tokens per session 4d6d2d3f6da4
- 1mo ago First seen · 97 lines · 1,599 tokens per session scan A 4e65bd32df86
hermes-local-knowledge AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository stepanov1975/hermes-local-knowledge (10 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,869 tokens to every session, about $0.0075 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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