`bootstrap.sh --with-hermes` installs the Goose CLI, drops a Goose
config pinning the OpenRouter provider + Nous Hermes model + the
homelab MCP extension, symlinks `bin/hermes` and HERMES.md, and links
HERMES.md as `.goosehints` so the persona is injected as the system
prompt every session.
`bin/hermes` decrypts `secrets/openrouter-api-key.yaml` via the existing
`homelab secret` flow and execs `goose session`.
`homelab client add --with-hermes` grants the new sops secret to the
host's age_pubkey at finalize time (parallel to the existing
shared-secrets grant). `client remove` revokes it.
`operations/hermes-agent.md` covers the end-to-end flow, verification,
troubleshooting, and queues one follow-up: the MCP server still runs
SSE-only but Goose 1.x deprecated SSE — the Goose config targets
`streamable_http` and the `homelab` extension won't connect until
`mcp/server.py` migrates. The `developer` extension (shell + edit +
`homelab` CLI) carries the agent in the meantime.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
