deskbrid-hermes-mcp

deskbrid-hermes-mcp is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from coe0718/deskbrid. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,246 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for connecting Deskbrid, a Linux desktop-control service, to Hermes through MCP. This can expose controls for windows, keyboard, mouse, clipboard, screenshots, accessibility tools, and terminals.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting Deskbrid, registering it as a Hermes MCP server, testing the connection, and checking which desktop-control tool groups are available.
Why use it?
They provide the setup and checks needed for Hermes to communicate with the running desktop service.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Starting Deskbrid, registering it as a Hermes MCP server, testing the connection, and checking which desktop-control tool groups are available.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/coe0718/deskbrid/deskbrid-hermes-mcp
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add coe0718/deskbrid --skill deskbrid-hermes-mcp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/coe0718/deskbrid

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,246 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 35
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00055 $0.01246
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00623
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00249
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00125

Measured 11d ago against content hash 96ff4c4cbefb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deskbrid-hermes-mcp scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 11d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" http://127.0.0.1:20129
hermes/skills/deskbrid-hermes-mcp/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deskbrid Hermes MCP Integration

Wire Deskbrid's 100+ Linux desktop control tools into Hermes as an MCP server. After setup, the agent can control windows, keyboard, mouse, clipboard, screenshots, AT-SPI accessibility, terminals, and more.

Prerequisites: Deskbrid daemon installed and running. See devops/deskbrid-install skill for system installation.

What This Skill Covers

  1. Start the Deskbrid daemon (if not running)
  2. Register Deskbrid as a Hermes MCP server
  3. Test MCP connectivity
  4. Verify available tool categories

Step 1 — Ensure Daemon Is Running

pgrep -a deskbrid

If no daemon, start it:

nohup deskbrid daemon --dashboard-bind 0.0.0.0 > /tmp/deskbrid.log 2>&1 &
sleep 2
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" http://127.0.0.1:20129

--dashboard-bind 0.0.0.0 makes the web dashboard accessible from LAN. Use 127.0.0.1 on single-user workstations. The dashboard exposes clipboard history, screenshots, and window titles — only bind to 0.0.0.0 on trusted networks.

Step 2 — Register MCP Server

# Check if already registered
hermes mcp list | grep deskbrid

# Register
hermes mcp add deskbrid --command "deskbrid mcp"

This adds to ~/.hermes/config.yaml:

mcp_servers:
  deskbrid:
    command: deskbrid
    args:
    - mcp
    timeout: 30

Step 3 — Test

hermes mcp test deskbrid

Expected: ✓ deskbrid: connected

Step 4 — Session Restart

MCP servers are loaded at session start. Run /reset or start a new hermes session. After restart, the agent has 100+ new tools.

Available Tool Categories

After MCP registration, the agent gains these tool categories:

Category Tools Examples
Windows list, focus, close, minimize, maximize, move, resize, tile list_windows, focus_window
Input keyboard typing, key combos, mouse, click, scroll, drag type_text, press_key, mouse_move
Clipboard read, write, history clipboard_read, clipboard_write
Screenshots capture, OCR, diff screenshot, screenshot_ocr
System info, battery, idle, power, pressure (PSI) system_info, system_pressure
AT-SPI A11y tree, get element, click, set value, perform action get_accessibility_tree, click_element
Terminal create PTY, send input, read output terminal_create, terminal_send
Files search, read, write, watch files_search, files_read
Audio volume, mute, sink management audio_volume, audio_mute
Network WiFi, Bluetooth, connections network_status, wifi_scan
MPRIS media player control mpris_play, mpris_pause
Print list printers, print files, manage jobs print_file, print_list
Notifications send, dismiss, history notify_send, notify_dismiss
Keyring Secret Service credentials secrets_get, secrets_store
Rules event-triggered automation rule_create, rule_list
Confirmation approval-gated destructive actions confirm, deny
Agent inter-agent mailbox messaging agent_send, agent_check
Search unified cross-surface search search_query
Macros record and replay action sequences macro_record, macro_replay
Capabilities supported actions, high-risk listing capabilities

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 121 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 96ff4c4cbefb

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deskbrid-hermes-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository coe0718/deskbrid (30 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,246 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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