hermes-desktop: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/hermes-agent/SKILL.md

hermes-agent is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fathah/hermes-desktop. It costs 46 tokens per session (16,691 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Project guidance for Hermes Agent, a system for building AI agents that use tools, connect to messaging platforms, manage sessions, and improve through a feedback loop. It covers the project's architecture, command line interface, tools, and setup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing or maintaining Hermes Agent, its command-line interface, tool system, session database, configuration, or agent workflows.
Why use it?
It gives an agent the detailed project context needed to work on a complex AI-agent codebase without guessing how its parts fit together.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for hermes-agent. Also seen: mentions subagents; positional $N argument; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is fathah/hermes-desktop's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on hermes-desktop itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything hermes-desktop configures →

About the project

Hermes One is a desktop application for installing, configuring, and chatting with Hermes Agent, an AI assistant that uses tools, memory, skills, scheduling, and messaging integrations. It is for people who want to manage Hermes Agent through a graphical interface, and the catalogue entries support its workflows with skills, hooks, instructions, and settings.

fathah/hermes-desktop · 14,167 stars · on GitHub · hermesone.org

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to fathah/hermes-desktop. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fathah/hermes-desktop/main/.agents/skills/hermes-agent/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fathah/hermes-desktop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 16,691 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. ✓ AI security review Sonnet 5 · 7 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review
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 $0.00046 $0.16691
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.08346
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.03338
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.01669

Measured 8d ago against content hash e8b8eeb212a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 8d 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.

.agents/skills/hermes-agent/SKILL.md · 1,766 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,766 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hermes Agent - Complete Project Guide (A-Z)

Purpose of this document: A single, comprehensive reference that explains everything about the Hermes Agent project — its architecture, source code, features, release history, and design patterns — so that any AI or developer can fully understand the system.


Table of Contents

  1. Project Overview
  2. Key Features Summary
  3. Installation & Getting Started
  4. Project Structure
  5. Core Architecture
  6. CLI System
  7. Tool System
  8. Agent Internals
  9. Messaging Gateway
  10. Cron Scheduling
  11. Skills System
  12. Plugin System
  13. Memory System
  14. ACP Server (IDE Integration)
  15. API Server
  16. MCP Server Mode
  17. RL Training Environments
  18. Profiles (Multi-Instance)
  19. Security Model
  20. Provider & Model System
  21. Streaming & Reasoning
  22. Release History
  23. File Dependency Chain
  24. Key Design Patterns
  25. Configuration Reference
  26. Known Pitfalls

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,766 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. 8d ago First seen · 1,766 lines · 46 tokens per session scan F e8b8eeb212a4

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hermes-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository fathah/hermes-desktop (14,167 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 16,691 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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