hermes-s6-container-supervision

hermes-s6-container-supervision is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aivrar/portable-hermes-agent. It costs 20 tokens per session (3,132 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of hermes-s6-container-supervision, MIT.

A guide for managing s6 services inside the Hermes Docker image. s6 is a process supervisor that starts, monitors, and restarts programs in a container.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add or remove always-on services, change boot-time setup scripts, debug gateways, and understand how Hermes starts user programs in Docker.
Why use it?
It helps locate why startup scripts or profile-specific gateways are not starting, restarting, or surviving a container restart.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for hermes-agent. Also seen: built for hermes-agent.

Good fit Use it to add or remove always-on services, change boot-time setup scripts, debug gateways, and understand how Hermes starts user programs in Docker.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aivrar/portable-hermes-agent/hermes-s6-container-supervision
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add aivrar/portable-hermes-agent --skill hermes-s6-container-supervision
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aivrar/portable-hermes-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,132 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00020 $0.03132
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.01566
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00626
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00313

Measured 12d ago against content hash b9b65b6d74ef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hermes-s6-container-supervision 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 12d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to hermes-s6-container-supervision — 0 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.

optional-skills/devops/hermes-s6-container-supervision/SKILL.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hermes s6-overlay Container Supervision

When to use this skill

Load this skill when you're working on:

  • Adding or removing a static service in the Hermes Docker image (something that should be supervised at every container start, like the dashboard)
  • Diagnosing why a per-profile gateway isn't starting, restarting, or surviving docker restart
  • Understanding why the container's CMD is /opt/hermes/docker/main-wrapper.sh and how leading-dash args reach the user's program
  • Modifying cont-init.d boot scripts (UID remap, volume seeding, profile reconciliation)
  • Changing the rendered run-script for per-profile gateways (Phase 4)

If you're just running the Hermes Agent and want to use Docker, see website/docs/user-guide/docker.md instead.

Architecture at a glance

/init                                  ← PID 1 (s6-overlay v3.2.3.0)
├── cont-init.d                        ← oneshot setup, runs as root
│   ├── 01-hermes-setup                ← docker/stage2-hook.sh
│   │   ├── UID/GID remap
│   │   ├── chown /opt/data
│   │   ├── chown /opt/data/profiles (every boot)
│   │   ├── seed .env / config.yaml / SOUL.md
│   │   └── skills_sync.py
│   └── 02-reconcile-profiles          ← hermes_cli.container_boot
│       ├── chown /run/service (hermes-writable for runtime register)
│       └── walk $HERMES_HOME/profiles/<name>/gateway_state.json
│           → recreate /run/service/gateway-<name>/
│           → auto-start only those with prior_state == "running"
│
├── s6-rc.d (static services, in /etc/s6-overlay/s6-rc.d/)
│   ├── main-hermes/run                ← exec sleep infinity (no-op slot)
│   └── dashboard/run                  ← if HERMES_DASHBOARD=1, runs `hermes dashboard`
│
├── /run/service (s6-svscan watches; tmpfs)
│   ├── gateway-coder/                 ← runtime-registered per-profile
│   │   ├── type        ("longrun")
│   │   ├── run         ("#!/command/with-contenv sh ... exec s6-setuidgid hermes hermes -p coder gateway run")
│   │   ├── down        (marker — present means "registered but don't auto-start")
│   │   └── log/run     (s6-log → $HERMES_HOME/logs/gateways/coder/current)
│   └── ...
│
└── CMD ("main program")               ← /opt/hermes/docker/main-wrapper.sh
    └── routes user args: bare exec | hermes subcommand | hermes (no args)
        — exec'd by /init with stdin/stdout/stderr inherited (TTY for --tui)

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 180 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A b9b65b6d74ef

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hermes-s6-container-supervision is a skill published in the GitHub repository aivrar/portable-hermes-agent (218 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 3,132 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to hermes-s6-container-supervision, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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