hermes-agent

hermes-agent is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ChrisLamDev/hermes-core-skills. It costs 13 tokens per session (368 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup and extension guide for Hermes Agent, an autonomous AI assistant that can run from a command line, Telegram, Discord, or other platforms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install Hermes, choose a local model, configure its files, start sessions or API mode, and delegate work to separate sub-agents.
Why use it?
It gives developers a clear way to install the agent, configure its model and skills, and understand how to run it as an interactive tool or service.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to install Hermes, choose a local model, configure its files, start sessions or API mode, and delegate work to separate sub-agents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chrislamdev/hermes-core-skills/hermes-agent
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ChrisLamDev/hermes-core-skills --skill hermes-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ChrisLamDev/hermes-core-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 368 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 original 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 $0.00013 $0.00368
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00184
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00037

Measured 7d ago against content hash fdde640b5a56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hermes-agent 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 7d 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.

skills/hermes-agent/SKILL.md · 59 lines

What it actually says

Hermes Agent Guide

Hermes Agent is an autonomous AI agent that runs via CLI, Telegram, Discord, and other platforms.

Quick Install

pip install hermes-agent          # or
brew install hermes-agent/tap/hermes-agent
hermes --version                  # verify

Key Commands

Command What It Does
hermes Start interactive session
hermes --model qwen2.5:7b Start with specific local model
hermes --listen Start in service mode (API)

Configuration

Config file: ~/.hermes/config.yaml

provider: ollama
model: qwen2.5:7b
skills:
  dir: ~/.hermes/skills

Spawning Sub-Agents

Use delegate_task() to spawn isolated agents for:

  • Heavy reasoning (parallel research)
  • Long-running code work (keeps your context clean)
  • Multi-agent workflows (up to 3 sub-agents)

See references/advanced-setup.md for platform setup (Telegram, Discord, CLI gateway).

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. 7d ago First seen · 59 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A fdde640b5a56

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hermes-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository ChrisLamDev/hermes-core-skills (9 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 368 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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