Hermes Agent is an AI assistant that learns from its use by creating and improving skills, retaining knowledge, searching past conversations, and adapting to its users. It is for people who want to run an agent through a terminal or messaging platforms while connecting it to different AI models and scheduled tasks.
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.
npx skills add NousResearch/hermes-agent --skill hermes-s6-container-supervisiongit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agentWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/hermes-s6-container-supervision)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/hermes-s6-container-supervision"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/hermes-s6-container-supervision/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/hermes-s6-container-supervision"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/hermes-s6-container-supervision.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Snyk pass
- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 5 findings, up to high
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 →
- high Privilege Escalation · line 37 Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 67 Docker image references without a specific tag (:latest is implicit) or digest (@sha256:...) can be silently replaced by a malicious image.Fix: Pin the image: image:tag or image@sha256:abc123
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 82 Docker image references without a specific tag (:latest is implicit) or digest (@sha256:...) can be silently replaced by a malicious image.Fix: Pin the image: image:tag or image@sha256:abc123
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 85 Docker image references without a specific tag (:latest is implicit) or digest (@sha256:...) can be silently replaced by a malicious image.Fix: Pin the image: image:tag or image@sha256:abc123
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 85 Docker image references without a specific tag (:latest is implicit) or digest (@sha256:...) can be silently replaced by a malicious image.Fix: Pin the image: image:tag or image@sha256:abc123
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00020 | $0.03132 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00010 | $0.01566 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00004 | $0.00626 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00313 |
Grade A, and why
hermes-s6-container-supervision 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 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.
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.
Copies of this mod
7 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- hermes-s6-container-supervision — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- hermes-s6-container-supervision — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- hermes-s6-container-supervision — 95% identical, 5 lines differ
- hermes-s6-container-supervision — 91% identical, 9 lines differ
- hermes-s6-container-supervision — 91% identical, 9 lines differ
- s6-container-supervision — 91% identical, 30 lines differ
- hermes-s6-container-supervision — 91% identical, 9 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Hermes s6-overlay Container Supervision
When to use this skill
Load this skill when you're working on:
- Adding or removing a static service in the Hermes Docker image (something that should be supervised at every container start, like the dashboard)
- Diagnosing why a per-profile gateway isn't starting, restarting, or surviving
docker restart - Understanding why the container's CMD is
/opt/hermes/docker/main-wrapper.shand how leading-dash args reach the user's program - Modifying
cont-init.dboot scripts (UID remap, volume seeding, profile reconciliation) - Changing the rendered run-script for per-profile gateways (Phase 4)
If you're just running the Hermes Agent and want to use Docker, see website/docs/user-guide/docker.md instead.
Architecture at a glance
/init ← PID 1 (s6-overlay v3.2.3.0)
├── cont-init.d ← oneshot setup, runs as root
│ ├── 01-hermes-setup ← docker/stage2-hook.sh
│ │ ├── UID/GID remap
│ │ ├── chown /opt/data
│ │ ├── chown /opt/data/profiles (every boot)
│ │ ├── seed .env / config.yaml / SOUL.md
│ │ └── skills_sync.py
│ └── 02-reconcile-profiles ← hermes_cli.container_boot
│ ├── chown /run/service (hermes-writable for runtime register)
│ └── walk $HERMES_HOME/profiles/<name>/gateway_state.json
│ → recreate /run/service/gateway-<name>/
│ → auto-start only those with prior_state == "running"
│
├── s6-rc.d (static services, in /etc/s6-overlay/s6-rc.d/)
│ ├── main-hermes/run ← exec sleep infinity (no-op slot)
│ └── dashboard/run ← if HERMES_DASHBOARD=1, runs `hermes dashboard`
│
├── /run/service (s6-svscan watches; tmpfs)
│ ├── gateway-coder/ ← runtime-registered per-profile
│ │ ├── type ("longrun")
│ │ ├── run ("#!/command/with-contenv sh ... exec s6-setuidgid hermes hermes -p coder gateway run")
│ │ ├── down (marker — present means "registered but don't auto-start")
│ │ └── log/run (s6-log → $HERMES_HOME/logs/gateways/coder/current)
│ └── ...
│
└── CMD ("main program") ← /opt/hermes/docker/main-wrapper.sh
└── routes user args: bare exec | hermes subcommand | hermes (no args)
— exec'd by /init with stdin/stdout/stderr inherited (TTY for --tui)
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 180 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A b9b65b6d74ef
hermes-s6-container-supervision is a skill published in the GitHub repository NousResearch/hermes-agent (244,059 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 3,132 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 2026-08-30.
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