model-onboarding

model-onboarding is a skill for Claude Code from rlaope/oh-my-hermes. It costs 107 tokens per session (661 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for adding a new language model generation to an AI coding system, including recognition, routing, pricing, configuration, and benchmarking.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps onboard model aliases, calibrate model traits, update routing tables, set documented prices, and verify served model paths.
Why use it?
It prevents a model from being only partly added by checking its identity, documented behavior, routing paths, and machine configuration together.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Good fit It helps onboard model aliases, calibrate model traits, update routing tables, set documented prices, and verify served model paths.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rlaope/oh-my-hermes/model-onboarding
About the project

oh-my-hermes is an operating layer for Hermes Agent that organizes requests into workflows for planning, research, creation, coding handoffs, operations, and project memory. Hermes users run these workflows through the desktop app, CLI, or messenger app, while the catalogue add-ons extend its native capabilities.

rlaope/oh-my-hermes · 1,648 stars · on GitHub · rlaope.github.io

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 rlaope/oh-my-hermes --skill model-onboarding
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rlaope/oh-my-hermes

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 661 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00107 $0.00661
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00331
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00066

Measured 4d ago against content hash 43ef6be29151, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

model-onboarding 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.

.claude/skills/model-onboarding/SKILL.md · 57 lines

What it actually says

Model onboarding

The procedure lives in docs/MODEL-ONBOARDING.md. Read that file and follow it in order.

It is kept there rather than here because Codex, Hermes handoffs, and generic executor profiles run the same loop, and AGENTS.md requires that no single executor own a shared surface. This file exists so the loop is reachable as /model-onboarding; it holds no rules of its own.

Start by reading, in this order:

cat docs/MODEL-ONBOARDING.md
cat MODEL_OPTI.md

Six things the loop gets wrong most often:

  • Recognition before research. Probe every served id and every bare chat name with omh coding model-route first; a model_family of unknown means the calibration never attaches.
  • Chains move as a set. The Hermes-lane table, its plugin mirror, the Maestro-lane table, the model-setup skill text, seven public doc surfaces, the release budget note, and the pinned-chain tests all name the old id; grep for it and move every site in the same commit.
  • Machine config stays provider-neutral. Chains name aliases; the provider row is a separate concern in model-providers.json. Place the id with omh model-chains set, never by hand-editing the JSON, and let the older generation stay behind it as fall-through.
  • Served is not released. Prove the route with one hermes --oneshot call and read the usage file (model, provider, cost_status) before any measurement or placement; gateways want the vendor-prefixed id.
  • The override is measured against the block it replaced, on cost. Run the family arm next to baseline and optimized; expect pass rate to tie and read the paired token delta, tool calls, and turns. Same pass with more tokens on the tasks it fails is a sentence that pushes — cut it.
  • A routing signal is only as good as the tier's chain head. Measure the head on the request class it will receive before shipping the signal, and name the head in every routing claim.

Arguments pass through verbatim: the model ids as served (for example claude-fable-5-1 claude-mythos-5-1).

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 Changed · +10 lines 43ef6be29151
  2. 7d ago First seen · 47 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A 29415a32faea

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model-onboarding is a skill published in the GitHub repository rlaope/oh-my-hermes (1,648 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 661 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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