hermes-agent

hermes-agent is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Tommy-yw/RunbookHermes. It costs 62 tokens per session (6,867 once invoked), scanned D, original, MIT.

A guide and extension skill for Hermes Agent, an open-source terminal and messaging-platform assistant that can use language models and tools. It covers setup, configuration, skills, memory, voice, and connected platforms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up Hermes, changing providers or profiles, spawning agents, configuring gateways, managing skills, or working on its code.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand how to install, configure, troubleshoot, and extend the Hermes Agent framework.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for hermes-agent. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it when setting up Hermes, changing providers or profiles, spawning agents, configuring gateways, managing skills, or working on its code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tommy-yw/runbookhermes/hermes-agent
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 Tommy-yw/RunbookHermes --skill hermes-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Tommy-yw/RunbookHermes

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,867 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 3 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 $0.00062 $0.06867
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.03433
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.01373
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00687

Measured 7d ago against content hash 1cbe902c14a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

hermes-agent scanned grade D with 3 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- **Gateway dies on SSH logout**: Enable linger: `sudo loginctl enable-linger $USER`

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/autonomous-ai-agents/hermes-agent/SKILL.md · 706 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 706 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent is an open-source AI agent framework by Nous Research that runs in your terminal, messaging platforms, and IDEs. It belongs to the same category as Claude Code (Anthropic), Codex (OpenAI), and OpenClaw — autonomous coding and task-execution agents that use tool calling to interact with your system. Hermes works with any LLM provider (OpenRouter, Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek, local models, and 15+ others) and runs on Linux, macOS, and WSL.

What makes Hermes different:

  • Self-improving through skills — Hermes learns from experience by saving reusable procedures as skills. When it solves a complex problem, discovers a workflow, or gets corrected, it can persist that knowledge as a skill document that loads into future sessions. Skills accumulate over time, making the agent better at your specific tasks and environment.
  • Persistent memory across sessions — remembers who you are, your preferences, environment details, and lessons learned. Pluggable memory backends (built-in, Honcho, Mem0, and more) let you choose how memory works.
  • Multi-platform gateway — the same agent runs on Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Matrix, Email, and 10+ other platforms with full tool access, not just chat.
  • Provider-agnostic — swap models and providers mid-workflow without changing anything else. Credential pools rotate across multiple API keys automatically.
  • Profiles — run multiple independent Hermes instances with isolated configs, sessions, skills, and memory.
  • Extensible — plugins, MCP servers, custom tools, webhook triggers, cron scheduling, and the full Python ecosystem.

People use Hermes for software development, research, system administration, data analysis, content creation, home automation, and anything else that benefits from an AI agent with persistent context and full system access.

This skill helps you work with Hermes Agent effectively — setting it up, configuring features, spawning additional agent instances, troubleshooting issues, finding the right commands and settings, and understanding how the system works when you need to extend or contribute to it.

Docs: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/

Read the full file on GitHub · 706 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. 7d ago First seen · 706 lines · 62 tokens per session scan D 1cbe902c14a6

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hermes-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository Tommy-yw/RunbookHermes (544 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 6,867 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.