Hermes Talaria v0.3.0

Give Hermes lighter sandals.

In Greek myth, Talaria are the winged sandals of Hermes, the messenger god. They are what let him move quickly and travel light, which is exactly the spirit of this tool: a leaner Hermes profile with less baggage, less tool bloat, and less token drain.

What this version does

Creates a profile-local lean Hermes setup:

• Copies global skills into ~/.hermes/profiles/<profile>/skills
• Keeps active skills limited to:
  • autonomous-ai-agents/hermes-agent
  • github/*
  • mcp/native-mcp
  • software-development/*
• Moves everything else to profile-local skills-heavy or skills-disabled
• Patches the profile config for true light mode:
  • toolsets: []
  • agent.reasoning_effort: low
  • agent.disabled_toolsets: [hermes-cli]
  • checkpoints.enabled: false
  • memory.memory_enabled: false
  • memory.user_profile_enabled: false
  • delegation.orchestrator_enabled: false
  • delegation.max_concurrent_children: 0
  • curator.enabled: false
  • stt.enabled: false
  • model_catalog.enabled: false
  • honcho: null
  • display.personality: concise
  • prompt_caching.cache_ttl: 60m
• Finishes by running <profile> model to trigger Hermes model setup for the new profile

It does not mutate global ~/.hermes/skills.

Install

unzip hermes-talaria-v0.3.0.zip
cd hermes-talaria-v0.3.0
npm link

Run

hermes-talaria

Custom profile:

hermes-talaria -n MyProfile

Dry run:

hermes-talaria -n MyProfile --dry-run

Skip the final model setup launch:

hermes-talaria -n MyProfile --no-model-setup

If you skip that step, run the profile's model setup manually:

MyProfile model

If Hermes does not create a profile config immediately, Talaria writes:

~/.hermes/profiles/<profile>/config.yaml

Talaria writes the lean profile config directly so the profile is ready to use.