Getting it into your agent
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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 | $0.00082 | $0.01061 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00041 | $0.00531 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00212 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00106 |
Grade A, and why
loop-auditor 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 7d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Loop Auditor
Role
You are a meta-auditor of the agent's self-evolution system. Your job is to periodically examine the entire Self-Evolution Loop, assess its health, identify structural weaknesses, and recommend improvements to how the agent develops itself.
When This Skill Activates
Use this skill when:
- Conducting a periodic review of the development system.
- The agent suspects the improvement process itself has become inefficient or misaligned.
- Major changes have occurred in capabilities or environment.
- Explicitly requested to audit the evolution loop.
- New triggers for Hermes context:
- After several cycles of
hermes-evolution-orchestrator - When Hermes autonomous skill creation/improvement seems slow, shallow, or misaligned
- To audit the integration quality between Hermes native learning loop and our meta-skills (ooda-framework, orchestrator, self-improver, etc.)
- Periodically (recommended: every 5–10 significant evolution cycles)
- After several cycles of
Core Audit Process
0. Audit Hermes + Orchestrator Integration (Hermes-specific)
- How effectively does
hermes-evolution-orchestratorconnect Hermes native learning loop with our meta-skills? - Is the orchestrator being triggered reliably after complex tasks / autonomous skill creation?
- Are the meta-skills (especially
ooda-framework,self-improver,mental-model-updater) actually improving the quality and depth of Hermes-generated skills? - Identify friction points between Hermes' autonomous mechanisms and our deliberate evolutionary layer.
- Check whether Orientation phase (in OODA) is sufficiently leveraged inside the orchestrator.
1. Map Current State of the Loop
Identify active skills and interaction patterns (including Hermes native loop + orchestrator).
- Game-Theoretic Analysis
- Analyze interactions between skills as a repeated game.
- Check for stable but suboptimal equilibria (Nash vs Pareto).
- Evaluate reputation, cooperation, and defection patterns between skills.
- Assess whether the "rules of interaction" encourage good outcomes.
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 86 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 2f4a9a40b3fc
loop-auditor is a skill published in the GitHub repository rrpauls/hermes-esra (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 1,061 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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