Hermes Agent: Deep Cuts
The series where we take every Hermes Agent feature — the obscure corners and the main ones alike — and show the advanced usage: how it works under the hood, the exact commands, the gotcha, and how to verify it. Written for people who already run Hermes daily.
27 posts Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: Three Gates Between `plugins install` and a Tool the Model Can Call Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: Your Memory Is a Snapshot, Not a Database Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: The Subagent Wall — Why Delegation Is a Context Boundary, Not a Parallelism Feature Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: The Profile Is Not a Sandbox — Why Hermes' Real Isolation Is an Environment Variable Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: The Cron Fleet That Fails Closed Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: The Forgetting Loop — Inside the Curator That Stops Skills From Rotting Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: The Egress Firewall That Turns Sandbox Keys Into Useless Tokens Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: The 7.6 KB Index That Decides What the Agent Knows Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: The Task Board Where Every Handoff Is a Row Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: Observer Hooks — Watching the Loop Without Touching It Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: The Fallback Chain That Logged 'Trying' and Still Died Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: The Context File That Silently Didn't Load Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: The Shadow Git Store Behind `/rollback` Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: The Safe Console That Refuses to Be a Shell Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: Projects Are the Missing Workspace Boundary Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: The Flag That Turns Agent Runs Into Auditable Jobs Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: The Voice Stack — STT, TTS, and Voice Mode Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: Worktree Mode (`hermes -w`) Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: Profiles Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: Webhook Subscriptions Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: Gateway Per-Platform Toolsets Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: The Four Slash Commands Most Users Never Try Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: Secret Redaction Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: Auxiliary Model Routing Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: Checkpoints & /rollback Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: Approvals Smart Mode Hermes Agent Deep Cuts: Credential Pools