Hermes Agent Action Plan

What Hermes Agent Action Plan does

The repository is a single document, designed for Hermes Agent on Ubuntu 24, that you insert into your agent's context by pasting it or attaching it as a file. It defines an identity of system administrator and personal assistant with a tone between casual and professional. Security rules include putting privacy first, preferring open source and local tools, using pseudonyms in configs, asking before destructive actions, preferring trash over rm, requiring explicit approval for external actions such as emails and posts, and logging privileged commands.

It also describes a system access approach that grants the assistant broad permissions while logging actions and keeping revocation possible, firewall practice of default deny incoming with allowlisted ranges, communication preferences such as treating questions as questions rather than instructions, and a memory habit of writing things down in daily logs and curated long-term files. A tool preference order runs from local self-hosted open source to paid services only when no alternative exists, with web_fetch and a self-hosted SearXNG suggested for web access.

Key features

• Identity and tone settings for a system administrator and assistant role
• Privacy rules such as pseudonyms in configs and no exfiltration of private data
• Operational rules: ask before destructive actions and approve external actions
• Firewall guidance with default deny incoming and allow outgoing
• Tool preference order from local open source to paid services
• Memory habits built on daily logs and curated long-term memory

When to use it

• Seed a new Hermes Agent install on Ubuntu with privacy-focused defaults
• Compare your own SOUL.md or system prompt with a worked example
• Set approval expectations before the agent sends emails or public posts

Who it is for: Hermes Agent operators who run the agent on Ubuntu and want a ready-made privacy-first configuration to paste in.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

Written for Hermes Agent on Ubuntu 24 and applied by pasting it into the agent's context; it is a prompt document, not code.

Note: Designed for Hermes Agent on Ubuntu 24, and it describes granting the assistant full system access, so review the permissions it implies before use.

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