hermes-agent

hermes-agent is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from itgoyo/hermes-skills. It costs 62 tokens per session (6,883 once invoked), scanned D, original, no licence file.

A reference guide for setting up and extending Hermes Agent, a command-line agent system. It covers its configuration, tools, profiles, voice features, gateway platforms, and additional agent instances.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for configuring Hermes, troubleshooting it, starting additional agents, and extending its tools or integrations.
Why use it?
It provides the relevant instructions when Hermes setup or behavior is unclear.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit It is for configuring Hermes, troubleshooting it, starting additional agents, and extending its tools or integrations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/itgoyo/hermes-skills/hermes-agent
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 itgoyo/hermes-skills --skill hermes-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/itgoyo/hermes-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,883 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 3 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00062 $0.06883
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.02753
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.01377
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00688

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 1dd82528c238, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

hermes-agent scanned grade D with 3 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 2mo 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- **Gateway dies on SSH logout**: Enable linger: `sudo loginctl enable-linger $USER`

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
autonomous-ai-agents/hermes-agent/SKILL.md · 707 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2mo ago First seen · 707 lines · 62 tokens per session scan D 1dd82528c238

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hermes-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository itgoyo/hermes-skills (79 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 6,883 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, downloads and executes remote code, 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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