oh-my-hermes

OMHER Desktop

Your Hermes bots and coding agents, in one window.

macOS (Apple silicon) · macOS (Intel) · Windows · All releases →

The ultrawork agent with AI coworkers wired into you. Just type dag-ulw.

oh-my-hermes is an operating layer for Hermes Agent.
You keep talking to Hermes. OMH puts a coworker with its own skill and model on each lane, in parallel.
It never patches or replaces Hermes, and it never reports planned work as done.

Install

curl -fsSL https://omher.app/install | sh
omh setup

Windows and other options →

What you get

The right model for every lane.
Each lane is tagged with a work category: ultrabrain, deep, visual-engineering, quick and more.
The category picks that lane's model chain and reasoning effort, and you can edit every chain.
When a provider rejects a model, the chain moves to the next one instead of silently downgrading.
omh model opens the picker; see which model runs each lane.
/dag-ulw graph runs.
Your goal becomes a graph of small nodes, and the ready ones run in parallel.
Each node runs on its category's model and effort; nodes running at once never share a write scope.
A separate node checks the goal, and failed nodes are repaired before the report.
Expert skills on demand.
A hundred-plus omh-* specialists: frontend, backend, Rust, security review, verification gates.
You never call them; the router loads the right ones into the run as tool calls.
LSP in the loop.
Definitions, references and renames come from the language server, not text search.
Aliases, re-exports and shadowed names are renamed by meaning, not by matching text.
Off by default; enable lsp_tools in the OMH plugin settings.
Long-term memory you can trust.
Nothing is remembered silently: each candidate is kept, refused or deferred with a written reason.
The next session gets a recall pack ranked for its task and cut to a token budget.
Hermes' own memory is never read or patched.
OMH Native.
Bare omh opens OMH's own TUI on Hermes' gateway; switch its launch look with /theme.
/dag-ulw prints the box graph, then a live lane tree with each lane's model, effort and tokens.
Steer or interrupt an agent from the agent list, run a ! shell line, and rewind with Esc Esc.
Evidence before "done".
Every status names its stage and how sure OMH is about it.
Plan · not run · Code · reported done · Test · verified
A run counts as verified only when a test, review or CI gate actually passed.

DAG-ULW

Just type /dag-ulw, and you're a graph engineering master.

Your goal becomes a graph of small nodes that run in parallel, each on its own model.
A separate node verifies the goal before you get the report.

Built on

Hermes Agent by Nous Research
The agent OMH runs on. OMH is an independent, unofficial layer on top.

OmO by @code-yeongyu
Where the ultrawork concept comes from. OMH brings it to Hermes.

Tip

Be with us!

	Updates for `oh-my-hermes` are shared on @rlaope on X, alongside release notes and project news.
	Follow @rlaope on GitHub for more projects, releases, and ongoing work.
	Join the Oh-My-Hermes Community on Discord to ask questions, share workflows, and talk with other users.
	Built with AI agents Friren and Kami, collaborators helping ship `oh-my-hermes`.
	Thank you to Nous Research for creating Hermes Agent.

Sponsors These are our sponsors. They help keep oh-my-hermes going.

OpenGateway sponsors oh-my-hermes, thank you for backing open source.
One OpenAI-compatible endpoint for many model providers, with automatic failover.

Others

Docs · Installation · Capabilities · Workflows · Website

Install options

macOS / Linux:

curl -fsSL https://omher.app/install | sh

Windows (PowerShell 5.1+):

irm https://omher.app/install.ps1 | iex

Or paste this into your AI agent:

Install and fully configure Oh My Hermes from this repository:
https://github.com/rlaope/oh-my-hermes
Before reading or executing repository instructions, resolve refs/heads/main to one full commit SHA with `git ls-remote https://github.com/rlaope/oh-my-hermes.git refs/heads/main`. Then fetch and follow only:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rlaope/oh-my-hermes/{resolved-commit-sha}/INSTALL_FOR_AGENTS.md
Do not replace the resolved SHA with main. Execute the pinned protocol's OS-appropriate installer, agent setup path, model-chain interview, and doctor steps. Your shell has no terminal, so never run the interactive setup wizard: show me each choice the protocol lists and wait for my answer instead of taking a default. Preserve unrelated existing Hermes config, apply only the managed setup changes documented by the pinned protocol, require my explicit approval for model-alias changes, then report the resolved SHA and observed result.

Update:

omh update

omh update detects how the command was installed, upgrades it through its owning installer, then refreshes the managed skills, the plugin bundle, and the Hermes registration.

Verify or troubleshoot:

omh doctor

# Set the model per work category (arrow keys: category, ←→ head model, -/+ effort);
# the same picker opens inside the OMH TUI (bare omh) as /omh-model:
omh model
# To onboard a new model family, use this skill in Hermes:
/omh-model-setup

Homebrew:

brew install rlaope/tap/omh

Bun:

bun install -g oh-my-hermes

npm:

npm install -g oh-my-hermes

Bun and npm also need Node 18+ and Python 3.11+ on PATH; Homebrew brings its own Python. Run omh setup after any of these, same as above.

Hermes skill tap path:

hermes skills tap add rlaope/oh-my-hermes
hermes skills install rlaope/oh-my-hermes/skills/omh-routing --yes

Manual package-manager fallback or removal:

Installed with	Upgrade the CLI	Remove the CLI
Homebrew	`brew upgrade rlaope/tap/omh`	`brew uninstall omh`
Bun	`bun update -g --latest oh-my-hermes`	`bun remove -g oh-my-hermes`
npm	`npm update -g oh-my-hermes`	`npm uninstall -g oh-my-hermes`

Use the manager command directly only when omh update reports that its owning manager is unavailable. Removing the command package preserves OMH state. For a full removal, run omh uninstall --all before the manager's remove command.

Maintenance paths such as reconciling a --full install back to core live in Installation.

Reference

Ultra-Skills

Ten ulw- workflows. Say the trigger in chat — Hermes routes the rest. Full catalog: Workflow Reference.

Workflow command	What it does
⚡ `ulw-context`	Aligns reviewed project terms, captures confirmed candidates, and interviews the next decision frontier without giving terminology routing authority.
⚡ `ulw-interview`	Asks one question at a time until it knows exactly what you want.
⚡ `ulw-research`	Digs through real code and the live web, keeps sources, and verifies anything doubtful.
⚡ `ulw-plan`	Builds a reviewed plan: options compared, risks named, done-criteria agreed.
⚡ `ulw-work`	Runs an accepted plan in parallel lanes that never touch the same file.
⚡ `dag-ulw`	Runs a big job as a graph of small parallel nodes, verifies the goal with a separate node, and repairs what failed.
⚡ `ulw-maestro`	Runs a delegated task on Claude Code or Codex — prompt composed from the CLI's own installed skills, spawned live with a dock row and a steerable session.
⚡ `ulw-loop`	Cycles plan → build → review until the goal actually passes.
⚡ `ulw-qa`	Attacks the build with hostile scenarios and fixes what breaks.
⚡ `ulw-perf`	Measures where it is actually slow or expensive, then fixes one hot path at a time.

Recommended set

Type these at the Hermes prompt. The ulw- prefix picks the workflow; the rest is your request in plain words.

1. Shape it. ulw-interview when the idea is still fuzzy, ulw-plan when the change is known but risky.

❯ ulw-interview: I want a CLI that tracks the ISS and warns me before it passes overhead
❯ ulw-plan: analyze this project's circular dependencies and plan the refactor

2. Build it. ulw-work runs the accepted plan in parallel lanes that never edit the same file.

❯ ulw-work: run the accepted plan

3. Finish it. ulw-loop keeps cycling until the gate you name passes.

❯ ulw-loop: keep going until npm test passes

How it works with Hermes

Hermes Agent already runs the loop. OMH decides what goes into it: which model and effort each lane gets, who owns the code change, which skills apply, and what counts as done. Two rules hold everywhere: model choice and coding ownership are separate decisions, and nothing prepared is ever reported as executed. The generated catalog, triggers, and evidence rules live in Workflow Reference.

The workflow

Understand → Research → Decide → Plan → Execute → Verify → Operate → Learn

Stage	What happens
Understand	Confirm the intent, constraints, project terms, and stop conditions.
Research	Replace assumptions with source-backed product, code, or operational context.
Decide	Make the options, tradeoffs, and decision owner explicit.
Plan	Turn accepted scope, coding ownership, tests, and done criteria into an executable plan.
Execute	Dispatch bounded work to the selected owner and track what actually runs; a prepared handoff is not execution evidence.
Verify	Base the verdict on observed test results, review findings, CI status, and runtime evidence.
Operate	Keep release health, incidents, rollback state, and follow-up work visible.
Learn	Promote reviewed, scoped lessons into project memory or workflow improvements.

Highlights

Intelligence	What OMH adds
🧭 Mixture-of-models routing	Every delegated lane lands on a category (model + reasoning effort) at dispatch time. Chains fall through when a provider rejects a model, and a child that did no work shows `failed`, never a green row.
🎛️ Per-family calibration	Prompting is tuned per model family and generation — GPT-6 Astra, GPT-5.6, Claude 5.5, GLM 5.3, Kimi, Gemini, Qwen, DeepSeek and more — and each tune is kept only while the benchmark pair says it helps.
🗂️ Categories you own	Shipped model categories, with `omh model-chains set` to reorder, an entitlement interview that reorders chains per machine, and a live view of what a request would route to before it runs.
🖥️ Native TUI surface	The OMH HUD (live rows with category, turns, cost, cache), the phase todo above the prompt, `parallel shot ×N`, full-row diff bands, and a theme of your own — in the OMH TUI bare `omh` opens, never patching Hermes.
⚡ Observed parallel work	Independent work splits into fanout units with disjoint file ownership, admission control under provider pressure, typed result sidecars, and verification gates that read what came back.
💸 Priced cost telemetry	Token counts and dollar figures on every HUD row and run summary, priced from a rate table that cites its source; an unpriceable run reads `unknown`, never `$0`.
🧠 Long-term project memory	A file-backed memory provider Hermes loads, admission and retention policies, reviewer-gated writes, and recall packs with freshness and budget — Hermes' own memory stays untouched.
🔎 Structural code search	A measured `ast-grep` playbook (28 languages, grep fallback) and `omh codegraph uml` for a repo-wide architecture picture, injected where executors read code; `omh codegraph tests --changed` names the tests a change reaches (codegraph commands).
🛡️ Guardrails you write	Toolcall rules that block an off-script call with your own rule text, a completion-integrity gate that refuses stubs and skipped tests as evidence, and an approval tier for risky actions.
♾️ Ultra workflow engines	Parallel delivery lanes, measured goal loops with ledgers and real completion gates, and decision-frontier interviews before any engine runs — listed in Ultra-Skills above.
📦 A deterministic catalog	A hundred-plus installable skills generated from one source, routing precision corpora with negative controls, and drift gates that fail CI on a single divergent byte.

Evidence before claims

OMH never reports that work happened unless it watched it happen. Every status you see has two parts: the stage, and how sure OMH is about it.

You see	It means
`Plan · not run`	A prompt or plan is ready. Nothing has run yet.
`Code · running`	An executor is running now, and OMH is watching it.
`Code · reported done`	The executor said it finished. Nobody checked the result.
`Test · verified`	A test, review, or CI gate actually passed.

An executor saying it is done is not the same as anything having been checked, and most tools spell both "complete". Capability impact is reported across separate dimensions rather than one marketing score; see Capability Impact. The product A/B lane that compares Hermes alone with Hermes through OMH has its corpus and offline pilot in place, and no measured run is published yet: benchmarks/product-ab/v1/README.md.

Documentation

Contributors

License

MIT, see LICENSE.
Built in the open with our contributors as part of Team Art & Engineering.

OMHER Desktop

Your Hermes bots and coding agents, in one window.

macOS (Apple silicon) · macOS (Intel) · Windows · All releases →

The ultrawork agent with AI coworkers wired into you. Just type dag-ulw.

Install

curl -fsSL https://omher.app/install | sh
omh setup

Windows and other options →

What you get

The right model for every lane.
Each lane is tagged with a work category: ultrabrain, deep, visual-engineering, quick and more.
The category picks that lane's model chain and reasoning effort, and you can edit every chain.
When a provider rejects a model, the chain moves to the next one instead of silently downgrading.
omh model opens the picker; see which model runs each lane.
/dag-ulw graph runs.
Your goal becomes a graph of small nodes, and the ready ones run in parallel.
Each node runs on its category's model and effort; nodes running at once never share a write scope.
A separate node checks the goal, and failed nodes are repaired before the report.
Expert skills on demand.
A hundred-plus omh-* specialists: frontend, backend, Rust, security review, verification gates.
You never call them; the router loads the right ones into the run as tool calls.
LSP in the loop.
Definitions, references and renames come from the language server, not text search.
Aliases, re-exports and shadowed names are renamed by meaning, not by matching text.
Off by default; enable lsp_tools in the OMH plugin settings.
Long-term memory you can trust.
Nothing is remembered silently: each candidate is kept, refused or deferred with a written reason.
The next session gets a recall pack ranked for its task and cut to a token budget.
Hermes' own memory is never read or patched.
OMH Native.
Bare omh opens OMH's own TUI on Hermes' gateway; switch its launch look with /theme.
/dag-ulw prints the box graph, then a live lane tree with each lane's model, effort and tokens.
Steer or interrupt an agent from the agent list, run a ! shell line, and rewind with Esc Esc.
Evidence before "done".
Every status names its stage and how sure OMH is about it.
Plan · not run · Code · reported done · Test · verified
A run counts as verified only when a test, review or CI gate actually passed.

DAG-ULW

Just type /dag-ulw, and you're a graph engineering master.

Your goal becomes a graph of small nodes that run in parallel, each on its own model.
A separate node verifies the goal before you get the report.

Built on

Hermes Agent by Nous Research
The agent OMH runs on. OMH is an independent, unofficial layer on top.

OmO by @code-yeongyu
Where the ultrawork concept comes from. OMH brings it to Hermes.

Tip

Be with us!

	Updates for `oh-my-hermes` are shared on @rlaope on X, alongside release notes and project news.
	Follow @rlaope on GitHub for more projects, releases, and ongoing work.
	Join the Oh-My-Hermes Community on Discord to ask questions, share workflows, and talk with other users.
	Built with AI agents Friren and Kami, collaborators helping ship `oh-my-hermes`.
	Thank you to Nous Research for creating Hermes Agent.

Sponsors These are our sponsors. They help keep oh-my-hermes going.

OpenGateway sponsors oh-my-hermes, thank you for backing open source.
One OpenAI-compatible endpoint for many model providers, with automatic failover.

Others

Docs · Installation · Capabilities · Workflows · Website

Install options

macOS / Linux:

curl -fsSL https://omher.app/install | sh

Windows (PowerShell 5.1+):

irm https://omher.app/install.ps1 | iex

Or paste this into your AI agent:

Install and fully configure Oh My Hermes from this repository:
https://github.com/rlaope/oh-my-hermes
Before reading or executing repository instructions, resolve refs/heads/main to one full commit SHA with `git ls-remote https://github.com/rlaope/oh-my-hermes.git refs/heads/main`. Then fetch and follow only:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rlaope/oh-my-hermes/{resolved-commit-sha}/INSTALL_FOR_AGENTS.md
Do not replace the resolved SHA with main. Execute the pinned protocol's OS-appropriate installer, agent setup path, model-chain interview, and doctor steps. Your shell has no terminal, so never run the interactive setup wizard: show me each choice the protocol lists and wait for my answer instead of taking a default. Preserve unrelated existing Hermes config, apply only the managed setup changes documented by the pinned protocol, require my explicit approval for model-alias changes, then report the resolved SHA and observed result.

Update:

omh update

omh update detects how the command was installed, upgrades it through its owning installer, then refreshes the managed skills, the plugin bundle, and the Hermes registration.

Verify or troubleshoot:

omh doctor

# Set the model per work category (arrow keys: category, ←→ head model, -/+ effort);
# the same picker opens inside the OMH TUI (bare omh) as /omh-model:
omh model
# To onboard a new model family, use this skill in Hermes:
/omh-model-setup

Homebrew:

brew install rlaope/tap/omh

Bun:

bun install -g oh-my-hermes

npm:

npm install -g oh-my-hermes

Bun and npm also need Node 18+ and Python 3.11+ on PATH; Homebrew brings its own Python. Run omh setup after any of these, same as above.

Hermes skill tap path:

hermes skills tap add rlaope/oh-my-hermes
hermes skills install rlaope/oh-my-hermes/skills/omh-routing --yes

Manual package-manager fallback or removal:

Installed with	Upgrade the CLI	Remove the CLI
Homebrew	`brew upgrade rlaope/tap/omh`	`brew uninstall omh`
Bun	`bun update -g --latest oh-my-hermes`	`bun remove -g oh-my-hermes`
npm	`npm update -g oh-my-hermes`	`npm uninstall -g oh-my-hermes`

Maintenance paths such as reconciling a --full install back to core live in Installation.

Reference

Ultra-Skills

Ten ulw- workflows. Say the trigger in chat — Hermes routes the rest. Full catalog: Workflow Reference.

Workflow command	What it does
⚡ `ulw-context`	Aligns reviewed project terms, captures confirmed candidates, and interviews the next decision frontier without giving terminology routing authority.
⚡ `ulw-interview`	Asks one question at a time until it knows exactly what you want.
⚡ `ulw-research`	Digs through real code and the live web, keeps sources, and verifies anything doubtful.
⚡ `ulw-plan`	Builds a reviewed plan: options compared, risks named, done-criteria agreed.
⚡ `ulw-work`	Runs an accepted plan in parallel lanes that never touch the same file.
⚡ `dag-ulw`	Runs a big job as a graph of small parallel nodes, verifies the goal with a separate node, and repairs what failed.
⚡ `ulw-maestro`	Runs a delegated task on Claude Code or Codex — prompt composed from the CLI's own installed skills, spawned live with a dock row and a steerable session.
⚡ `ulw-loop`	Cycles plan → build → review until the goal actually passes.
⚡ `ulw-qa`	Attacks the build with hostile scenarios and fixes what breaks.
⚡ `ulw-perf`	Measures where it is actually slow or expensive, then fixes one hot path at a time.

Recommended set

Type these at the Hermes prompt. The ulw- prefix picks the workflow; the rest is your request in plain words.

1. Shape it. ulw-interview when the idea is still fuzzy, ulw-plan when the change is known but risky.

❯ ulw-interview: I want a CLI that tracks the ISS and warns me before it passes overhead
❯ ulw-plan: analyze this project's circular dependencies and plan the refactor

2. Build it. ulw-work runs the accepted plan in parallel lanes that never edit the same file.

❯ ulw-work: run the accepted plan

3. Finish it. ulw-loop keeps cycling until the gate you name passes.

❯ ulw-loop: keep going until npm test passes

How it works with Hermes

The workflow

Understand → Research → Decide → Plan → Execute → Verify → Operate → Learn

Stage	What happens
Understand	Confirm the intent, constraints, project terms, and stop conditions.
Research	Replace assumptions with source-backed product, code, or operational context.
Decide	Make the options, tradeoffs, and decision owner explicit.
Plan	Turn accepted scope, coding ownership, tests, and done criteria into an executable plan.
Execute	Dispatch bounded work to the selected owner and track what actually runs; a prepared handoff is not execution evidence.
Verify	Base the verdict on observed test results, review findings, CI status, and runtime evidence.
Operate	Keep release health, incidents, rollback state, and follow-up work visible.
Learn	Promote reviewed, scoped lessons into project memory or workflow improvements.

Highlights

Intelligence	What OMH adds
🧭 Mixture-of-models routing	Every delegated lane lands on a category (model + reasoning effort) at dispatch time. Chains fall through when a provider rejects a model, and a child that did no work shows `failed`, never a green row.
🎛️ Per-family calibration	Prompting is tuned per model family and generation — GPT-6 Astra, GPT-5.6, Claude 5.5, GLM 5.3, Kimi, Gemini, Qwen, DeepSeek and more — and each tune is kept only while the benchmark pair says it helps.
🗂️ Categories you own	Shipped model categories, with `omh model-chains set` to reorder, an entitlement interview that reorders chains per machine, and a live view of what a request would route to before it runs.
🖥️ Native TUI surface	The OMH HUD (live rows with category, turns, cost, cache), the phase todo above the prompt, `parallel shot ×N`, full-row diff bands, and a theme of your own — in the OMH TUI bare `omh` opens, never patching Hermes.
⚡ Observed parallel work	Independent work splits into fanout units with disjoint file ownership, admission control under provider pressure, typed result sidecars, and verification gates that read what came back.
💸 Priced cost telemetry	Token counts and dollar figures on every HUD row and run summary, priced from a rate table that cites its source; an unpriceable run reads `unknown`, never `$0`.
🧠 Long-term project memory	A file-backed memory provider Hermes loads, admission and retention policies, reviewer-gated writes, and recall packs with freshness and budget — Hermes' own memory stays untouched.
🔎 Structural code search	A measured `ast-grep` playbook (28 languages, grep fallback) and `omh codegraph uml` for a repo-wide architecture picture, injected where executors read code; `omh codegraph tests --changed` names the tests a change reaches (codegraph commands).
🛡️ Guardrails you write	Toolcall rules that block an off-script call with your own rule text, a completion-integrity gate that refuses stubs and skipped tests as evidence, and an approval tier for risky actions.
♾️ Ultra workflow engines	Parallel delivery lanes, measured goal loops with ledgers and real completion gates, and decision-frontier interviews before any engine runs — listed in Ultra-Skills above.
📦 A deterministic catalog	A hundred-plus installable skills generated from one source, routing precision corpora with negative controls, and drift gates that fail CI on a single divergent byte.

Evidence before claims

OMH never reports that work happened unless it watched it happen. Every status you see has two parts: the stage, and how sure OMH is about it.

You see	It means
`Plan · not run`	A prompt or plan is ready. Nothing has run yet.
`Code · running`	An executor is running now, and OMH is watching it.
`Code · reported done`	The executor said it finished. Nobody checked the result.
`Test · verified`	A test, review, or CI gate actually passed.

Documentation

Contributors

License

MIT, see LICENSE.
Built in the open with our contributors as part of Team Art & Engineering.

Understand it first

Install

What we checked

README

OMHER Desktop

Install

What you get

DAG-ULW

Others

Ultra-Skills

Recommended set

How it works with Hermes

The workflow

Evidence before claims

Documentation

Contributors

License

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