Check whether the Hermes deployment is reachable and healthy.

Use this first when something looks wrong — it separates "the agent is down" from "the agent is up but misbehaving".

Read the Hermes agent's current run state.

Returns whatever the deployment reports: process state, uptime, version, queue depth. Prefer this over start when you only need to know if the agent is already running.

Start the Hermes agent.

Safe to call when the agent is already running — most deployments treat it as a no-op — but check status first if you are unsure.

Stop the Hermes agent.

This takes the agent offline: in-flight work may be dropped and the agent will not accept new tasks until it is started again. Confirm with the user before calling this against a production deployment.

Restart the Hermes agent.

Use this after a deploy or a config change that needs a fresh process. Causes a brief outage; in-flight work may be dropped.

Read recent Hermes logs.

Read resource and throughput metrics from the Hermes deployment.

Show how this server is configured and which endpoints Hermes actually has.

Returns the active base URL, auth style, and route table, plus the deployment's own OpenAPI schema when it publishes one. Run this first against a new deployment: the built-in route paths are conventional defaults, and any that do not match can be corrected with HERMES_ROUTE_<NAME> or HERMES_ROUTES_FILE rather than a code change.

Work out this deployment's real endpoints and emit the overrides for them.

Send the Hermes agent a task to work on.

Read one Hermes task: its state, result, and any error it recorded.

List recent Hermes tasks, newest first.

Cancel a running Hermes task.

Whatever the task had already done externally is not undone — this stops further work, it does not roll back.

Deploy Hermes on the host — pull new code and bring it up.

Read the Hermes deployment's current configuration.

Values the deployment considers secret are usually returned masked. Do not assume anything here is safe to echo back into a shared channel.

Update Hermes configuration values.

Call any Hermes endpoint directly, for anything the named tools miss.