hermes-agent

hermes-agent is a skill for Claude Code from Aitherium/awdk. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,511 once invoked), scanned C, original, no licence file.

An installation and operating guide for Nous Research's Hermes, an autonomous coding agent that can retain information, create skills, run scheduled tasks, and send messages across platforms. It also covers connecting it to a local model service and adding tools through MCP.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install Hermes, connect an OpenAI-compatible local endpoint, add the AitherOS toolset, and configure memory, skill creation, scheduled jobs, and messaging.
Why use it?
It explains how to run Hermes on your own model instead of relying on an unspecified hosted setup, and how to configure its integrations correctly.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is bash scripts/install-awskills.sh --target hermes.

Part of the awsh plugin — 104 skills, 1 agent, 4 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to install Hermes, connect an OpenAI-compatible local endpoint, add the AitherOS toolset, and configure memory, skill creation, scheduled jobs, and messaging.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Aitherium/awdk
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aitherium/awdk/hermes-agent

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install awsh, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 104 skills, 1 agent, 4 MCP servers.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,511 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00074 $0.01511
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00604
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00302
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00151

Measured yesterday against content hash 5c6dfe7d67ef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

hermes-agent scanned grade C with 2 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 yesterday.

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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash # Linux/macOS/WSL2/Termux

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash # Linux/macOS/WSL2/Termux
adk/harnesses/claude_mod/skills/hermes-agent/SKILL.md · 155 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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. yesterday Changed · +1 lines 5c6dfe7d67ef
  2. 5d ago First seen · 154 lines · 74 tokens per session scan C c7bd2a5c6ee7

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hermes-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository Aitherium/awdk (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,511 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-02.

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