openhermit-guide

openhermit-guide is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HCF-STUDIOS/openhermit. It costs 83 tokens per session (2,238 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to how OpenHermit agents work for owners, regular users, and guests. OpenHermit is a multi-agent platform that connects agents to people through channels such as the web, command line, Telegram, Discord, and Slack.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand membership roles, access levels, security policies, enabled tools, channel behavior, and approval flows for actions such as tool calls, file access, and shell commands.
Why use it?
It explains how identity, roles, permissions, tools, and approvals affect what each person can ask an agent to do.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hcf-studios/openhermit/openhermit-guide
Any agent
npx skills add HCF-STUDIOS/openhermit --skill openhermit-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HCF-STUDIOS/openhermit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,238 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00083 $0.02238
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.01119
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00448
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00224

Measured 4d ago against content hash 84f2ae7da1c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openhermit-guide 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 4d 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/openhermit-guide/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenHermit Agent Guide

Source code: https://github.com/HCF-STUDIOS/openhermit

This guide describes how an OpenHermit agent behaves for the people interacting with it — the owner, regular users, and guests. It is not about deploying the platform; for setup, CLI, and gateway operations see the openhermit-admin skill.

Mental model

An OpenHermit agent has:

  • Members — exactly one owner, plus any number of user and guest members
  • A toolbelt — the agent's built-in tools, plus any MCP tools the owner has enabled
  • A security policy — an access level (who can talk to the agent) and policies (what each caller can do)
  • Channels — CLI, web, Telegram, Discord, Slack — bridging people on those platforms into membership

Every caller — owner, user, guest, or the agent itself — is checked against the same policy on every tool call, file access, shell command, and MCP call. The only thing that differs by role is which permissions the caller has.

Roles

Three per-agent roles:

Role Typical capabilities
owner Full management: members, policies, schedules, channels, MCP, instructions; sees all sessions; only role that can run owner-only tools
user Authenticated standard caller; read tools, web, memory read/write, session participation; sees sessions they participated in
guest Anonymous or low-trust; read tools, web, memory read, identity linking; sees only their own sessions

Roles are scoped to an agent: the same person can be owner on one agent and guest on another. One user can carry multiple identities — e.g. (telegram, 12345), (slack, U07ABC), (cli, william) — each identity being a (channel, channelUserId) pair.

Identity linking

Identity linking is central to how OpenHermit behaves across channels. A real person typically reaches the agent from more than one place — CLI on their laptop, Telegram on their phone, the web app on another device — and each of those is a separate identity. Unless those identities are linked to the same user, the agent treats them as different people: separate roles, separate sessions, separate memory visibility.

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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. 4d ago First seen · 133 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 84f2ae7da1c7

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openhermit-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository HCF-STUDIOS/openhermit (53 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 2,238 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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