inference-sh-cli

inference-sh-cli is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NousResearch/hermes-agent. It costs 24 tokens per session (1,250 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A command-line tool for running more than 150 cloud AI applications for images, video, language models, search, avatars, and lip-sync. It runs the work remotely, so the computer does not need a GPU.

In plain words
What is it for?
Generate images or videos, run language-model and search applications, create avatars or lip-sync videos, and invoke cloud AI apps with structured JSON input and output.
Why use it?
It provides one command-line interface for different AI applications instead of requiring separate provider tools and APIs. The correct application must be searched for before it is run.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

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.

NousResearch/hermes-agent · 240,739 stars · on GitHub

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/nousresearch/hermes-agent/inference-sh-cli
Any agent
npx skills add NousResearch/hermes-agent --skill inference-sh-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,250 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00024 $0.01250
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00625
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00250
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00125

Measured 5d ago against content hash 85fba8537293, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

inference-sh-cli scanned grade C with 2 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 5d 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.

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://cli.inference.sh | sh

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -fsSL https://cli.inference.sh | sh
Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

optional-skills/devops/inference-sh-cli/SKILL.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

inference.sh CLI

Run 150+ AI apps in the cloud with a simple CLI. No GPU required.

All commands use the terminal tool to run infsh commands.

When to Use

  • User asks to generate images (FLUX, Reve, Seedream, Grok, Gemini image)
  • User asks to generate video (Veo, Wan, Seedance, OmniHuman)
  • User asks about inference.sh or infsh
  • User wants to run AI apps without managing individual provider APIs
  • User asks for AI-powered search (Tavily, Exa)
  • User needs avatar/lipsync generation

Prerequisites

The infsh CLI must be installed and authenticated. Check with:

infsh me

If not installed:

curl -fsSL https://cli.inference.sh | sh
infsh login

See references/authentication.md for full setup details.

Workflow

1. Always Search First

Never guess app names — always search to find the correct app ID:

infsh app list --search flux
infsh app list --search video
infsh app list --search image

2. Run an App

Use the exact app ID from the search results. Always use --json for machine-readable output:

infsh app run <app-id> --input '{"prompt": "your prompt here"}' --json

3. Parse the Output

The JSON output contains URLs to generated media. Present these to the user with MEDIA:<url> for inline display.

Common Commands

Image Generation

# Search for image apps
infsh app list --search image

# FLUX Dev with LoRA
infsh app run falai/flux-dev-lora --input '{"prompt": "sunset over mountains", "num_images": 1}' --json

# Gemini image generation
infsh app run google/gemini-2-5-flash-image --input '{"prompt": "futuristic city", "num_images": 1}' --json

# Seedream (ByteDance)
infsh app run bytedance/seedream-5-lite --input '{"prompt": "nature scene"}' --json

# Grok Imagine (xAI)
infsh app run xai/grok-imagine-image --input '{"prompt": "abstract art"}' --json

Video Generation

# Search for video apps
infsh app list --search video

# Veo 3.1 (Google)
infsh app run google/veo-3-1-fast --input '{"prompt": "drone shot of coastline"}' --json

# Seedance (ByteDance)
infsh app run bytedance/seedance-1-5-pro --input '{"prompt": "dancing figure", "resolution": "1080p"}' --json

# Wan 2.5
infsh app run falai/wan-2-5 --input '{"prompt": "person walking through city"}' --json

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 5d ago First seen · 157 lines · 24 tokens per session scan C 85fba8537293

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inference-sh-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository NousResearch/hermes-agent (240,739 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,250 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (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.