What is hermes-tools-config?

A configuration guide for choosing which tools Hermes can use and how those tools behave on each platform. A toolset is a group of related tools, such as web, file, browser, or terminal tools.

Use it to enable or disable tools by platform, configure web or browser backends, set output and file limits, and choose terminal or code-execution settings.

It helps control Hermes' available capabilities, output size, backends, and execution environment instead of relying on one fixed tool configuration.

How timfewi/tentaflake configures Claude Code and Codex

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to timfewi/tentaflake. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/timfewi/tentaflake/main/.agents/skills/hermes-tools-config/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/timfewi/tentaflake

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,353 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 warn 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

medium Excessive Agency · line 289
Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.

Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00033	$0.02353
Opus 5	$0.00016	$0.01177
Sonnet 5	$0.00007	$0.00471
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00235

Measured 11d ago against content hash d29286f755a7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hermes-tools-config 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 11d 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.

.agents/skills/hermes-tools-config/SKILL.md · 308 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 308 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hermes Tools Configuration

Tentaflake context: This skill describes Hermes' tool/toolset configuration — it works the same inside tentaflake agent containers. Toolset selection, output limits, and backend choices can be set declaratively via the settings attrset in my-agents.nix. See my-agents.nix.example for the toolsets, tool_output, web.backend, and terminal.backend options.

When to Use

Enable/disable specific tools per platform
Configure tool backends (web, browser, TTS, image gen)
Set tool output truncation limits
Configure file read safety limits
Disable toolsets globally
Set up browser backends
Configure code execution environment
Manage terminal backend

Procedure

1. Tool vs Toolset Distinction

Tool: Individual function (e.g., web_search, terminal, read_file, memory). Toolset: Group of related tools (e.g., web, terminal, file, memory, browser).

Hermes ships ~70+ tools across ~28 toolsets.

2. hermes tools Command

Interactive per-platform configuration:

hermes tools

Shows each tool/toolset and lets you enable/disable per platform (CLI, Telegram, Discord, etc.).

Platform-specific toolsets:

Platform	Toolset
CLI	`hermes-cli`
Telegram	`hermes-telegram`
Discord	`hermes-discord`
Slack	`hermes-slack`
WhatsApp	`hermes-whatsapp`
Email	`hermes-email`
Home Assistant	`hermes-homeassistant`

Full tools including terminal available on most messaging platforms.

3. Common Toolsets

hermes chat --toolsets "web,terminal,skills"

Toolset	Tools	Description
`web`	`web_search`, `web_extract`	Search and extract web content
`terminal`	`terminal`, `process`	Execute commands
`file`	`read_file`, `write_file`, `patch`, `search_files`	File operations
`browser`	`browser_navigate`, `browser_snapshot`, etc.	Browser automation
`memory`	`memory`	Persistent memory
`session_search`	`session_search`	Search past sessions
`vision`	`vision_analyze`	Image analysis
`image_gen`	`image_generate`	Image generation
`tts`	`text_to_speech`	Text-to-speech
`code_execution`	`execute_code`	Sandboxed code
`delegation`	`delegate_task`	Subagent spawn
`cronjob`	`cronjob`	Scheduled tasks
`skills`	`skill_manage`, `skill_view`, `skills_list`	Skill management
`messaging`	`send_message`	Outbound messaging
`clarify`	`clarify`	Clarification tool
`homeassistant`	`ha_*`	Home Assistant control
`mcp-<server>`	MCP tools	Dynamic per-server

Read the full file on GitHub · 308 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.

11d ago First seen · 308 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A d29286f755a7

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hermes-tools-config is a skill published in the GitHub repository timfewi/tentaflake (30 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 2,353 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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