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name: nousresearch-hermes-agent
description: Use when packaging Living IP agents, skills, prompts, memory, model routing, or decision-engine workflows for NousResearch Hermes Agent.
---

# NousResearch Hermes Agent

Use this skill to adapt Living IP decision-engine behavior to Hermes Agent. Keep the package fixture-first and no-secret by default.

## Current External Surface

As of 2026-06-01, the upstream Hermes Agent README describes:

- model switching via `hermes model`;
- tools via `hermes tools`;
- a messaging gateway for Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, and CLI;
- built-in skill creation and self-improvement;
- cron scheduling;
- terminal backends including local, Docker, SSH, Modal, and Daytona;
- OpenClaw migration commands.

Verify upstream docs before depending on a command in code.

## Living IP Package Shape

Create a package that includes:

- agent identity file for Rio or Theseus;
- skill instructions copied from repo-owned `.agents/skills/*`;
- `living-ip-kb-interop` for read/propose/writeback behavior;
- no-secret tool allowlist;
- fixture replay command;
- model selection notes;
- proof output path.

Do not package production DBs, tokens, API keys, SSH keys, or Bitwarden exports.

## Rio Package

Rio Hermes package should focus on:

- internet finance and mechanism reasoning;
- contribution weights and paid-query effects;
- OPSEC finance filters;
- source-diversity warnings;
- fixture tests for false economic reasoning.

## Theseus Package

Theseus Hermes package should focus on:

- model-diversity evals;
- disagreement queues;
- self-upgrade criteria;
- prompt/tool safety;
- fixture tests for overconfident or poorly grounded model judgments.

## Handoff Contract

Every Hermes handoff must include:

1. install/config snippet;
2. model/provider selection left configurable;
3. tool allowlist;
4. fixture-first demo;
5. no-live-write default;
6. proof artifact path;
7. known blockers.

Do not claim Hermes production integration until a Hermes runtime actually executes the fixture and writes proof.