feat(install): add Hermes as a first-class skill-activation target - #51
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WalkthroughThe installer and wrapper now support Hermes skill installation, detection, MCP configuration, and hook rejection. Tests cover isolated installation, manifest completeness, release activation, and environment isolation. Regression coverage and gate-count references are updated. ChangesHermes support and validation
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participant Wrapper as wrap
participant Installer as scripts/install.sh
participant SkillInstaller as skills/install.sh
participant HermesHome as Hermes skills directory
participant Validation as Hermes tests
Wrapper->>Installer: detect configured Hermes home
Installer->>SkillInstaller: invoke --hermes
SkillInstaller->>HermesHome: install ripwire skills
Installer-->>Wrapper: report Hermes activation
Validation->>HermesHome: verify skills and isolation
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In `@test/hermesinstallcheck.sh`:
- Around line 26-27: Export HERMES_HOME when assigning the temporary Hermes home
before invoking install.sh, and apply the same change to the rerun near line 59
so both child Bash processes use the temporary directory rather than the default
home.
- Line 65: Update the hook refusal check around the install.sh invocation to
capture its exit status and assert that it is exactly 2, rather than treating
any non-zero status as success. Preserve the existing HERMES_HOME setting and
command arguments.
- Around line 34-37: Update the manifest validation around the ripwire manifest
check to compare the complete sorted set of skill= entries against the installed
user-facing skill directories, rather than searching only for
ripwire-opt-remarks. Ensure missing, empty, omitted user-facing, or extra
contributor-only entries cause failure while an exact set passes.
- Around line 3-5: Extend the test in test/hermesinstallcheck.sh to run
scripts/install.sh in an isolated temporary home, then verify the Hermes ripwire
links and activation receipt produced by its Hermes activation block. Keep the
existing skills/install.sh --hermes coverage and ensure the temporary run cannot
modify other agent homes.
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In `@test/wrapverbscheck.sh`:
- Line 152: Update the second deterministic wrap invocation assigned to
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- Line 127: Update run_install so its default HERMES_HOME assignment is applied
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Thank you for this, and apologies for the silence — you deserved a status note before now rather than an open PR with nothing on it. Where it stands honestly: this is queued, not ignored, and it is not blocked on anything wrong with the PR. Skill-activation targets touch how the installer writes configuration outside its own prefix, so the order we add them in is a decision I want to make deliberately rather than in the order PRs arrive. There is also a sequencing question on our side that isn't mine alone to answer, and I'd rather tell you that than invent a technical reason. I'm not going to give you a date I can't keep. What I can say is that nothing here is a rejection, the PR stays open, and when the ordering question is settled this gets a real review — the same one #57 is getting today: full gate battery, sanitizers, and an adversarial pass rather than just the happy path. If you'd rather not wait on that, say so and I'll prioritise differently. Leaving a contributor hanging is the failure mode I'm most trying to avoid here. |
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@AnkitArya — apologies for the churn, and thank you for this. Two things: a collision I caused, and two The collision is mine. Every fact in the row is yours. I deliberately did not add it myself; it is your work and you should { "hermes", "Hermes", "AGENTS.md", "",
"~/.hermes", "${HERMES_HOME:-~/.hermes}/skills", " --hermes", true,
WrapPrimary::Cli, McpForm::CliAdd, "hermes mcp add ripwire --command ", " --args --mcp\n", "" },plus your Two things a review flagged that differ from #51 as written. I have NOT verified either against a
One more, on posture. #51 emits Hermes MCP-first, but your own comment notes Hermes has shell and And a seam between your PR and #46, which is neither PR's fault. #46 (merged) ships a Hermes-format Finally: |
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On the question you put to me directly — whether Hermes tolerates both skill formats in one directory: tested, yes. I ran the branch's real installer ( …then dropped the #46 skill ( So both formats load side by side, and an installer doesn't need prefer/fallback logic to make coexistence work — place both and Hermes indexes them together. The only format difference that matters is routing, not loading: Hermes truncates skill descriptions in its index at ~57 chars, so the flat skills route on their first sentence — fine, since the shipped ones are trigger-first. On your two fact-checks (you asked for a running-Hermes answer, so both were tested against one):
And on the verify script: it isn't on any public ref yet (main, the branch, or the fork), so the run above is the direct equivalent of its mechanical half. The moment it lands, I'll run |
Adds `--hermes` to skills/install.sh and a Hermes branch to scripts/install.sh's
activate block, wiring ripwire's Agent-Skills-standard SKILL.md files into
${HERMES_HOME:-$HOME/.hermes}/skills exactly like the Claude ($HOME/.claude) and
Codex ($AGENTS_HOME:-~/.agents) paths. The Hermes runtime loads ripwire's 16
user-facing skills natively (verified via `hermes skills list`: all loaded,
enabled). Hermes has no Claude/Codex-style PreToolUse hook file, so `--hook`
fails cleanly for the --hermes target rather than silently no-op'ing.
New test/hermesinstallcheck.sh pins the behavior against TEMP HERMES_HOME/
Claude/codex homes (hermetic, CI-runnable): --hermes installs every shipped
skill discoverable as SKILL.md; never creates ~/.claude or ~/.agents; a default
Claude install leaves a Hermes home intact; re-run is idempotent; --hook is
refused. Registered in test/regression.sh; manifestcheck gate-count (548->549)
references in EVALS.md/README.md/deck5_ripwire_build.js updated in the same commit.
Binary-side counterpart of the installer --hermes target: src/wrap.h now knows
Hermes in every recipe surface.
- kWrapBlurbTargets: hermes -> AGENTS.md (Hermes reads root AGENTS.md, like Codex/opencode)
- wrapList help: hermes listed under MCP agents
- getAgentConfigs(): Hermes detected via ${HERMES_HOME:-~/.hermes} (env-aware, mirrors
Codex's AGENTS_HOME) so `ripwire wrap --all` finds it
- wrapEmitAgent: hermes branch emits `hermes mcp add ripwire -- <token> --mcp` + the 31-verb
list + one-shot fallback, same shape as claude
- wrapPrintSkillsLine: hermes gets `skills/install.sh --hermes` and NO --hook line (Hermes has
no Claude/Codex PreToolUse hook slot); codex/claude output unchanged (`--codex`/--hook
preserved)
Gate updates (verification matches the honest-output culture):
- releaseinstallcheck.sh (E7): the release installer's Hermes activation block is now exercised
hermetically — install with HERMES_HOME pointed at an isolated home, assert the skills land and
the receipt names Hermes, and no Claude dir is invented.
- wrapverbscheck.sh: clear HERMES_HOME alongside XDG_CONFIG_HOME in the fake-home --all runs so a
leaked real HERMES_HOME cannot count a Hermes surface that is not in the fake home.
- hermesinstallcheck.sh (CodeRabbit findings): export HERMES_HOME so child bashes use the temp
home (never the real ~/.hermes in a clean CI); compare the COMPLETE manifest set, not one entry;
require exact exit status 2 for the --hook refusal.
Verified on aarch64 Linux: build/ripwire wrap hermes, wrap --all (5 surfaces incl. hermes),
wrap codex/claude unchanged, all shell syntax OK, determinism byte-identical, and the
hermesinstallcheck / releaseinstallcheck / skillinstallcheck / manifestcheck / wrapverbscheck /
codexwrapcheck / opencodewrapcheck gates all pass.
run_install now defaults HERMES_HOME= (empty) so a real HERMES_HOME exported in the calling environment can never make scripts/install.sh's Hermes-activation block target the operator's live ~/.hermes/skills with the fixture's temp-bundled skills/install.sh. Those temp src dirs are rm -rf'd at EXIT, so that leak silently replaced a real Hermes home with ONE dangling /tmp symlink (observed, restored). E7 still sets HERMES_HOME explicitly to a temp value. Verified: with HERMES_HOME pointed at a sentinel dir, releaseinstallcheck.sh passes all-arms and the sentinel ~/.hermes/skills is NOT created.
… too WRAP_ALL_OUT2 clears HERMES_HOME but not XDG_CONFIG_HOME, so a leaked XDG_CONFIG_HOME in the caller could make the second --all run detect a different opencode config than the first, breaking the byte-identical determinism assertion (or passing for the wrong reason). Both runs now isolate the same env set (HOME + XDG_CONFIG_HOME + HERMES_HOME). CodeRabbit finding.
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In `@skills/install.sh`:
- Line 368: Update the final hook case handling in the installer to explicitly
reject the openclaw target when --hook is requested, matching the existing
unsupported-target refusal behavior and exiting with the same error status.
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…e count to 564 - src/wrap.h: drop the six hand-edited Hermes branches; add one Hermes row to the maintainer's kAgentTargets table (CLI-first, CliForm CliAdd with the corrected 'hermes mcp add ripwire --command <path> --args --mcp' spelling, hookSlot=false until hooks/ripwire-nudge.sh is ported — the caveat column states the slot exists in config.yaml so the honest refusal wording is retained in skills/install.sh). - skills/install.sh: keep the Hermes --hook refusal line alongside the new openclaw refusal branch. - test/regression.sh: union merge of both branches' absorb-gate lists (564). - README.md / docs/EVALS.md / deck: 556/563 -> 564 gate-count quotes. - tested against agenttablecheck/hermesinstallcheck/manifestcheck + wrap/release/skillinstall gates + determinism.
…rrides --hermes links skills/hermes/* next to the flat set (manifest + prune follow; flat name wins); --hook refusal reworded (pre_tool_call slot exists, nudge port missing); --openclaw --hook refused with exit 2. hermesinstallcheck owns the skills/install.sh half (E7 owns the release half); run_install applies the HERMES_HOME default before overrides and E7 proves it with a split home. wrap hermes gains a mcp test verify hint.
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@joyful-ii-V-I — fact-checks closed, seam fixed, pushed as 180b2af. Point by point: 1. MCP spelling — the review was right, twice over. Beyond the live test (bare 2. Hook slot — the review was right. 3. The #46 seam — fixed, both sets ship. Drive-bys in the same push (both review-raised): CodeRabbit's Verification on my side:
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…arms Merge shipped/contributor listings into skill_names user|contributor; remove the §1c native-skill loop (§1 count + §1b manifest set already fail on it) and the vestigial scripts/install.sh existence check (E7 owns that half). Gate still ALL PASS.
…could not run test/binoverridecheck.sh arm (4) caught it on the lane: hermesinstallcheck.sh passed with RIPWIRE_BIN pointed at a stub that fails on every invocation, because it never invoked the binary at all. Arms 1-5 test skills/install.sh, which needs no ripwire binary — but the gate was handed one and ignored it, so it could not distinguish a working tool from a broken one. The fix is not an exemption. src/wrap.h's kAgentTargets Hermes row advertises two strings — the install FLAG and the skills DIRECTORY it deploys to — and skills/install.sh, which implements that behaviour, knows nothing about wrap.h. Nothing held the pair together. PR #51 first landed those strings across six hand-edited branches and the kAgentTargets consolidation folded them into one row, so a future row edit is precisely the drift worth catching. Arm 6 binds RIPWIRE_BIN the way the sibling install gates do, runs `wrap hermes`, and asserts the recipe a user would paste: the flag is the one this gate installs with, the advertised path resolves (with HERMES_HOME exported) to the directory --hermes actually populated, and no --hook install line is printed for a flag the installer refuses with exit 2. Mutation-verified against three drift shapes — wrong directory, wrong flag, a hook line added — each caught by its own arm; and the gate now goes red under the sentinel stub. binoverridecheck locally: 539 non-exempt gates, 0 false-greens. Gate runs in ~3s, inside the default 60s sentinel budget. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
merge(install): Hermes as a first-class skill-activation target — PR #51 (AnkitArya) + gate fix
…penclaw has not been INSTALL.md said neither Hermes nor openclaw "has been verified against a real install yet". That is true for openclaw. It is not true for Hermes. redhat-et#51's own "Verified" section records a live run against a real Hermes by @ashutoshsinghpr7: the installer enabled every shipped skill, and `hermes mcp add` connected and discovered the MCP tools. The paragraph now says what is known: CI checks what the installers write on disk; a contributor ran the Hermes installer and MCP registration live when support landed, and the maintainers have not re-verified it since; openclaw has not been verified against a real install. It keeps the "initial support" label and the help-wanted issues, and pins no counts that would drift as the skill set changes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Add Hermes as a first-class skill-activation target, mirroring the existing Claude (
~/.claude) and Codex (~/.agents) paths — installer, release one-liner, andwraprecipe.skills/install.sh— new--hermesmode:dst="${HERMES_HOME:-$HOME/.hermes}/skills"(profile-aware viaHERMES_HOME, same pattern as Codex'sAGENTS_HOME)skills/hermes/(both index side by side; flat name wins on collision); manifest and prune follow, hermes-mode-only--hookrefused withexit 2: Hermes exposeshooks: pre_tool_callinconfig.yaml, buthooks/ripwire-nudge.shstill switches on Claude tool names — the message says "not ported yet", not "no slot"--openclaw --hookrefused withexit 2(itsbefore_tool_callis a plugin API, not a shell hook slot; previously silently ignored)scripts/install.sh— the release-installer ACTIVATE block gains a Hermes branch after Codex: when${HERMES_HOME:-$HOME/.hermes}exists, runskills/install.sh --hermesand print a receipt line; theactivated==0manual hint lists--hermes.src/wrap.h— onekAgentTargetsrow (post-consolidation): CLI-first, MCP viahermes mcp add ripwire --command <path> --args --mcp(verified against the argparse source:--argsisREMAINDER, must be last) plus a# verify: hermes mcp test ripwirehint; no--hookline until the port lands.Gates:
test/hermesinstallcheck.sh(new, alphabetical slot intest/regression.sh): hermetic against TEMP homes; asserts the full 17-skill deploy, manifest exact-set, bidirectional hermeticity, idempotent re-run, hook exit-2test/releaseinstallcheck.sh: new E7 Hermes arm (splitcustom-hermeshome proves the explicitHERMES_HOMEoverride arrives instead of passing via the$HOMEfallback);run_installapplies the empty default before"$@"test/skillinstallcheck.sh: new (E) arm pins the--openclaw --hookexit-2 refusal with temp-HOME containmenttest/wrapverbscheck.sh: both--allruns clearHERMES_HOME(same treatment asXDG_CONFIG_HOME)Gate-count references 563 → 564 in
README.md,docs/EVALS.md(3 sites),present/deck5_ripwire_build.js.Why Hermes
Hermes Agent (Nous Research) loads the same Agent-Skills-standard
SKILL.mdfiles ripwire already ships, and its index truncates descriptions at 57 chars +...— the shipped flat skills are trigger-first, so they route on the first sentence.--hermeswires 17 skills into${HERMES_HOME}/skills: the 16 flat user-facing skills plus the Hermes-nativeripwire-repo-map(skills/hermes/, withmetadata.hermesextras). This makes the one-liner auto-activate ripwire for Hermes the same way it does for Claude and Codex.Verified (provenance)
Gates against this repo + TEMP homes (never real ones):
bash test/hermesinstallcheck.sh→ ALL PASS (17 skills incl. native, manifest exact-set)bash test/skillinstallcheck.sh→ ALL PASS (incl. new openclaw-refusal arm)bash test/releaseinstallcheck.sh→ all arms PASS incl. E7 (full green needsbuild/ripwirefor the isolation helper)Live against real Hermes (thanks @ashutoshsinghpr7):
skills/install.sh --hermes→hermes skills list: 17 local — 17 enabled (flat + native coexist)hermes mcp add ripwire --command <path> --args --mcpconnects, 31 tools discovered; the bare---form fails at argparse as predictedCO-AUTHOR / attribution
Authored with Hermes Agent (Ankit Arya). Happy to add/amend co-author attribution per maintainer preference.