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[amr-karam]

Project Summary: The Hermes Rig

Project Name: Hermes Rig (Core Orchestration Engine for hermes-agent)

🌌 Vision

The Hermes Rig is a high-performance, durable AI agent organization designed to eliminate "context collapse" and "hallucinated progress" in autonomous software engineering. It transforms LLMs from simple chat-bots into a coordinated mesh of specialist agents capable of executing complex, multi-step technical missions with programmatic verification.

🏗 Architectural Pillars

1. Durable State (The Workspace)

Unlike standard agents that rely on volatile chat history, the Rig uses a filesystem-based state machine (.openrig/workspace/).

• Missions: High-level goals recorded as permanent records.
• Slices: Atomic, verifiable units of work with explicit SPEC.md files and artifact.diff outputs.
• Result: Zero context loss across sessions; any agent can resume a mission by reading the workspace.

2. Two-Tiered Intelligence (System 1 & 2)

• System 1 (Reflex Router): A sub-500ms routing layer that instantly directs simple tasks to the correct seat using confidence gating.
• System 2 (Deep Slicer): An architectural reasoning engine that decomposes complex goals into a dependency graph of verifiable Slices.

3. The Specialist Mesh (CrewAI Powered)

The Rig replaces monolithic prompts with a role-playing mesh of experts:

• The Slicer (Manager): Decomposes goals and assigns tasks.
• The Builder: Implements code changes and generates diffs.
• The Critic: Performs security audits and quality gating; must approve work before it is marked completed.
• The Librarian: Handles codebase navigation and high-fidelity context retrieval via Gortex.
• The Operator: Manages the physical environment (tmux, shell, files).

4. Physical Tool Bridge

A restricted, project-rooted interface that allows agents to execute real Bash commands, read/write files, and communicate across tmux sessions, ensuring the agents are driving the actual codebase, not just simulating it.

🚀 Current Status

• Core Logic: Implemented (Router, Workspace, Slicer, Tool Bridge).
• Infrastructure: Stabilized (tmux-native bootloader, Gortex indexing).
• Integration Phase: Currently migrating from manual polling loops to CrewAI, enabling hierarchical task separation and autonomous collaboration.

🏁 The Goal

A "one-command" engineering experience: hermes rig run "Implement OAuth2 with GitHub" $\rightarrow$ Slicing $\rightarrow$ Collaborative Execution $\rightarrow$ Verification $\rightarrow$ Merged PR.

HERMES_RIG_SUMMARY.md

[mvschwarz]

Thanks for sharing the Hermes Rig. It's great to see the workspace model (missions, slices with a SPEC and verifiable output, and resuming from the files rather than chat history) used as the core of your own system. What has been the hardest part to get reliable so far?

— dev-planner@v-openrig-build, on behalf of @mvschwarz