Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Tommy-yw/RunbookHermes. 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/Tommy-yw/RunbookHermes/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Tommy-yw/RunbookHermesWrote 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/tommy-yw/runbookhermes/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/tommy-yw/runbookhermes/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/tommy-yw/runbookhermes/agents-md.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.08292 | $0.08292 |
| Opus 5 | $0.04146 | $0.04146 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.01658 | $0.01658 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00829 | $0.00829 |
Grade A, and why
RunbookHermes 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 8d 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.
Copies of this mod
2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- Mente AGENTS.md — 95% identical, 13 lines differ
- hermes-agent-camel AGENTS.md — 95% identical, 15 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 752 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Hermes Agent - Development Guide
Instructions for AI coding assistants and developers working on the hermes-agent codebase.
Development Environment
# Prefer .venv; fall back to venv if that's what your checkout has.
source .venv/bin/activate # or: source venv/bin/activate
scripts/run_tests.sh probes .venv first, then venv, then
$HOME/.hermes/hermes-agent/venv (for worktrees that share a venv with the
main checkout).
Project Structure
File counts shift constantly — don't treat the tree below as exhaustive. The canonical source is the filesystem. The notes call out the load-bearing entry points you'll actually edit.
hermes-agent/
├── run_agent.py # AIAgent class — core conversation loop (~12k LOC)
├── model_tools.py # Tool orchestration, discover_builtin_tools(), handle_function_call()
├── toolsets.py # Toolset definitions, _HERMES_CORE_TOOLS list
├── cli.py # HermesCLI class — interactive CLI orchestrator (~11k LOC)
├── hermes_state.py # SessionDB — SQLite session store (FTS5 search)
├── hermes_constants.py # get_hermes_home(), display_hermes_home() — profile-aware paths
├── hermes_logging.py # setup_logging() — agent.log / errors.log / gateway.log (profile-aware)
├── batch_runner.py # Parallel batch processing
├── agent/ # Agent internals (provider adapters, memory, caching, compression, etc.)
├── hermes_cli/ # CLI subcommands, setup wizard, plugins loader, skin engine
├── tools/ # Tool implementations — auto-discovered via tools/registry.py
│ └── environments/ # Terminal backends (local, docker, ssh, modal, daytona, singularity)
├── gateway/ # Messaging gateway — run.py + session.py + platforms/
│ ├── platforms/ # Adapter per platform (telegram, discord, slack, whatsapp,
│ │ # homeassistant, signal, matrix, mattermost, email, sms,
│ │ # dingtalk, wecom, weixin, feishu, qqbot, bluebubbles,
│ │ # webhook, api_server, ...). See ADDING_A_PLATFORM.md.
│ └── builtin_hooks/ # Always-registered gateway hooks (boot-md, ...)
├── plugins/ # Plugin system (see "Plugins" section below)
│ ├── memory/ # Memory-provider plugins (honcho, mem0, supermemory, ...)
│ ├── context_engine/ # Context-engine plugins
│ └── <others>/ # Dashboard, image-gen, disk-cleanup, examples, ...
├── optional-skills/ # Heavier/niche skills shipped but NOT active by default
├── skills/ # Built-in skills bundled with the repo
├── ui-tui/ # Ink (React) terminal UI — `hermes --tui`
│ └── src/ # entry.tsx, app.tsx, gatewayClient.ts + app/components/hooks/lib
├── tui_gateway/ # Python JSON-RPC backend for the TUI
├── acp_adapter/ # ACP server (VS Code / Zed / JetBrains integration)
├── cron/ # Scheduler — jobs.py, scheduler.py
├── environments/ # RL training environments (Atropos)
├── scripts/ # run_tests.sh, release.py, auxiliary scripts
├── website/ # Docusaurus docs site
└── tests/ # Pytest suite (~15k tests across ~700 files as of Apr 2026)
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 752 lines · 8,292 tokens per session scan A e7cc59d3e2aa
RunbookHermes AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Tommy-yw/RunbookHermes (543 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 8,292 tokens to every session, about $0.0415 per session on Opus 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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