Hermes Agent Harness Plus

A cheerful companion toolbox for people who want Hermes Agent work to be easier to follow, search, and share.

In one sentence: Harness Plus adds lightweight evidence trails, local recall, and ready-to-use helper pieces around Hermes Agent without changing Hermes Agent itself.

The 30-second story

Long agent sessions can move fast. A tool call creates a useful clue, a test log answers a question, and ten minutes later the important part is buried in the scrollback.

Harness Plus gives Hermes Agent a small outer harness: optional adapters, plugins, sidecars, skills, and checklists that help keep the work tidy.

The first bundle focuses on three habits:

• Keep the map. A Task Canvas stores compact progress notes while detailed evidence lives in referenced files.
• Find it again. Qdrant helpers can index selected local skills and recent sessions, then quietly check that local recall stays healthy after scheduled refreshes, container starts, or restarts.
• Share cleanly. Install notes, release routines, and reusable skills make it easier to turn a useful local helper into something another Hermes Agent user can try.

What's inside

• packages/context-canvas/ — a small local Task Canvas library with CLI and MCP server wrappers.
• plugins/context-canvas-autopilot/ — an optional Hermes plugin hook that writes evidence after long or large tool-use patterns; it does not mutate the active conversation.
• scripts/ — Qdrant and Context Canvas helper scripts for MCP, indexing, and health checks.
• skills/ — Hermes skills that explain when and how to use the harness.
• ops-rules/ — release and contribution checklists for shared tools.
• docs/ — the GitHub Pages site plus installation and technical notes.

Quick start

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/phenomenoner/hermes-agent-harness-plus.git
cd hermes-agent-harness-plus

Run the local Task Canvas smoke tests:

python -m pip install -e '.[mcp]' pytest
python -m pytest -q

Use the Task Canvas CLI directly from the source tree:

PYTHONPATH=packages/context-canvas python -m context_canvas.cli start \
  --session-id demo \
  --goal "Keep evidence for a long Hermes task"

Then read the guide:

• Install and enable the harness
• Catalog of components
• Release manifest

License

MIT. See LICENSE and NOTICE.