Collaborating with Hermes

Route every Hermes call through hermes_bridge.py. Never run bare hermes or hermes chat; the interactive interface blocks non-interactive shells.

For every read-only academic consultation, call Hermes and Codex together through scripts/paired_consult.py. Follow skills/_shared/core/dual-consult-protocol.md. Scientific figure generation remains Codex-only because Hermes has no equivalent image tool.

Always launch the bridge or paired runner in the background. Use a Bash timeout of at least 660000 ms for paired consultation or a direct Hermes call. Do not poll.

Paired consultation

Use paired consultation for academic analysis, research synthesis, manuscript review, candidate prose, experiment planning, adversarial review, and second opinions.

python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/paired_consult.py" \
  --cd "/absolute/workspace" \
  --handoff-kind general \
  --PROMPT "Read the named manuscript and sources. Assess claim C1 with exact evidence locators. Do not modify files."