hermes-litellm-provider

hermes-litellm-provider is a skill for Claude Code from rhtevan/agentfs. It costs 21 tokens per session (1,883 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup guide for connecting Hermes Agent, a command-line and desktop coding assistant, to a locally running LiteLLM proxy that sends requests to Claude models on Google Cloud Vertex AI.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to connect Hermes to the local proxy and reliably change or restore the selected model.
Why use it?
It removes the need to configure Hermes in several places by hand and helps keep its model settings consistent.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to connect Hermes to the local proxy and reliably change or restore the selected model.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rhtevan/agentfs/hermes-litellm-provider
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add rhtevan/agentfs --skill hermes-litellm-provider
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rhtevan/agentfs

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,883 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.
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 $0.00021 $0.01883
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00941
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00377
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00188

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9c179abc9330, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hermes-litellm-provider 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/restore.sh, scripts/verify.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/hermes-litellm-provider/SKILL.md · 205 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 205 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Configure Hermes Agent with Local LiteLLM Proxy

Set up Hermes Agent (CLI and Desktop) to use a locally hosted LiteLLM proxy as its custom LLM provider. The proxy is backed by Vertex AI Claude models (no auth, http://127.0.0.1:4000).

Prerequisites

  • Hermes Agent installed (~/.hermes/)
  • LiteLLM proxy running locally (see skill litellm-vertex-ai-proxy)
  • The proxy must be accessible at http://127.0.0.1:4000 (default port)
  • Python3 with pyyaml installed (used by scripts/restore.sh)

Model Selection Architecture

Hermes stores the default model in three locations that must stay in sync. There is no separate fast_model concept (unlike Goose).

Field Location Purpose
model.default Top-level in config.yaml Active default model
providers.<name>.default_model Provider entry Provider-level default
providers.<name>.model Provider entry Currently selected model

The restore.sh script updates all three atomically.

Note: hermes model may not persist changes to config.yaml. Use scripts/restore.sh or direct file editing for reliable updates.

Reference Configuration

File: ~/.hermes/config.yaml (relevant sections only)

⚠️ Use this exact schema. Do NOT write from memory or improvise field names. Copy this template and substitute only the marked placeholders.

model:
  base_url: http://127.0.0.1:4000/v1
  default: claude-opus-4-6              # default model for conversation
  provider: litellm-vertex-ai
  key_env: HERMES_CUSTOM_LITELLM_VERTEX_AI_API_KEY
providers:
  litellm-vertex-ai:
    api: http://127.0.0.1:4000/v1
    name: LiteLLM Vertex AI
    discover_models: true
    default_model: claude-opus-4-6      # must match model.default
    base_url: http://127.0.0.1:4000/v1
    model: claude-opus-4-6              # must match model.default
    models:
      claude-opus-4-6: {}
      claude-sonnet-4-6: {}
      claude-haiku-4-5: {}
    key_env: HERMES_CUSTOM_LITELLM_VERTEX_AI_API_KEY

Read the full file on GitHub · 205 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 9d ago First seen · 205 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 9c179abc9330

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hermes-litellm-provider is a skill published in the GitHub repository rhtevan/agentfs (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 1,883 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 2026-08-31.

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