Is hermes-agent safe to install?

Yes — hermes-agent is safe to install, with something worth knowing. Fable 5.1 read every file hermes-agent ships from chemany/Mente on 7 September 2026 and found nothing that acts against the person installing it; the static scan of its 26 rules grades it A.

Reviewed by Fable 5.1 on 7 September 2026 · a grade is what a scan and a reading found, not a guarantee · how this works

What the reviewer found

Documentation for the Nous Research Mente/Hermes autonomous-agent framework; the flagged 'curl | bash' is its own installer from the NousResearch repo and 'rm -rf' appears in its destructive-command approval docs. It is a powerful agent with a documented '--yolo' approval-skip mode, so know it can run with full system access.

What was read

The file as it ships in chemany/Mente:

What the static scan said

The scan flagged 4things. The reviewer kept 0 and dismissed 4 as false.

How this review was made

Fable 5.1 read the files above on 7 September 2026 and answered three questions: is it dangerous to whoever installs it, is each scanner finding real, and what should the installer know. The verdict is bound to the file's hash; when the file changes, it is scanned afresh and reviewed again. A script that changes while the definition does not is not re-reviewed — that is a known gap. How the scan and the review work.

Produced by agentmods.dev · Fable 5.1 · 7 September 2026

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