hermes-backup-recovery

hermes-backup-recovery is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SaikaAco/saika-hermes-skills. It costs 52 tokens per session (2,340 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for protecting Hermes data with encrypted backups and testing disaster recovery. Hermes state can include configuration, sessions, logs, source files, and databases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create and verify encrypted backups, safely copy live SQLite databases, manage retention, and perform clean-machine restore tests.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of losing operational data and checks that backups are complete and restorable, rather than trusting a successful backup command alone.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create and verify encrypted backups, safely copy live SQLite databases, manage retention, and perform clean-machine restore tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/saikaaco/saika-hermes-skills/hermes-backup-recovery
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add SaikaAco/saika-hermes-skills --skill hermes-backup-recovery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SaikaAco/saika-hermes-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,340 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 $0.00052 $0.02340
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01170
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00468
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00234

Measured 12d ago against content hash 2c48aa75413e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hermes-backup-recovery 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 12d 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.

skills/hermes-backup-recovery/SKILL.md · 250 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 250 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hermes Backup and Recovery

Overview

Protect Hermes with two complementary recovery layers:

sanitized control-plane text → local Git history → readable rollback
raw recovery state + safe databases → encrypted Restic snapshot → disaster recovery

The Git layer is intentionally incomplete and secret-free. The encrypted snapshot is the recovery layer and may contain credentials, sessions, logs, source state, databases, and other sensitive files according to the operator's approved scope.

A backup is not complete because a command exited successfully. Completion requires an atomic snapshot manifest, database consistency evidence, repository checks, and periodic restore verification.

When to use

Use when:

  • backing up Hermes configuration, profiles, skills, plugins, cron state, sessions, logs, source trees, or memory databases;
  • designing an encrypted Restic repository over local, S3-compatible, or rclone-backed storage;
  • capturing live SQLite databases safely;
  • defining backup retention and integrity gates;
  • verifying that a snapshot can restore on a clean machine;
  • documenting disaster-recovery credentials and cutover controls.

Do not use as a substitute for service-specific exports, application-level replication, or legal retention policy. Never assume a cloud provider's account recovery replaces independent recovery credentials.

Required tools and operator inputs

Typical prerequisites:

  • Restic;
  • Git;
  • Python with the standard-library sqlite3 module;
  • rclone only when the chosen backend requires it;
  • a credential manager independent of both the backup destination and protected machine.

The operator must define:

  • approved source roots;
  • encrypted repository endpoint;
  • exclusion policy;
  • credential-file locations;
  • retention schedule;
  • verification frequency;
  • recovery machine and cutover authority.

This skill does not install tools, create remotes, or request secrets. Authentication material must be entered through trusted local tooling and must never be pasted into an agent conversation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 250 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 250 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 2c48aa75413e

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hermes-backup-recovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository SaikaAco/saika-hermes-skills (2 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 2,340 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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