{
  "id": "hermes",
  "role": "runtime",
  "version": "1.9.1",
  "title": "Hermes Agent",
  "description": "Hermes Agent (NousResearch) — skills nest under skills/gsd/ category bucket; nested skill layout; settings-json hook surface; Claude hook event dialect; tier-2 support.",
  "tier": "core",
  "requires": [],
  "engines": {
    "gsd": ">=1.6.0"
  },
  "runtime": {
    "configHome": {
      "kind": "dot-home",
      "name": ".hermes",
      "env": [
        "HERMES_HOME"
      ]
    },
    "localConfigDir": ".hermes",
    "configFormat": "settings-json",
    "artifactLayout": {
      "global": [
        {
          "kind": "skills",
          "destSubpath": "skills/gsd",
          "prefix": "gsd-",
          "nesting": "nested",
          "recursive": false,
          "converter": "convertClaudeCommandToClaudeSkill"
        }
      ],
      "local": [
        {
          "kind": "skills",
          "destSubpath": "skills/gsd",
          "prefix": "gsd-",
          "nesting": "nested",
          "recursive": false,
          "converter": "convertClaudeCommandToClaudeSkill"
        }
      ]
    },
    "commandStyle": "slash-hyphen",
    "hooksSurface": "settings-json",
    "hookEvents": "claude",
    "sandboxTier": "none",
    "supportTier": 2,
    "installSurface": "settings-json",
    "writesSharedSettings": true,
    "permissionWriter": null,
    "extendedHookEvents": [],
    "extensionEvents": "hermes",
    "hostBehaviors": {
      "skillFrontmatterVersion": true,
      "skillsManifestPrefix": "skills/gsd/",
      "trackCategoryDescription": true,
      "writeCategoryDescription": true,
      "reportSkillsCount": true,
      "legacyCommandsGsdCleanup": true,
      "brandingRewrites": {
        "CLAUDE.md": "HERMES.md",
        "Claude Code": "Hermes Agent",
        ".claude/": ".hermes/"
      },
      "reapplyCommand": "gsd-update --reapply (mention the skill name)",
      "legacyCommandsGsdInstallMigration": true,
      "legacyCommandsGsdUninstall": true,
      "hyphenNameAgentBody": true
    },
    "hostIntegration": {
      "embeddingMode": "imperative",
      "commandSurface": "slash-programmatic",
      "dispatch": {
        "namedDispatch": false,
        "nested": true,
        "maxDepth": 1,
        "background": true,
        "subagentToolkit": "read-only",
        "backgroundDispatch": false,
        "isolation": "undocumented"
      },
      "modelMode": "active",
      "hookBus": "host",
      "stateIO": "filesystem",
      "transport": "mcp",
      "runtime": "python",
      "effortSurface": "undocumented"
    }
  }
}