agentguard-hermes 0.1.0

AgentGuard security monitoring plugin for Hermes Agent

agentguard-hermes

AgentGuard security monitoring plugin for Hermes Agent.

Forwards Hermes session, LLM, and tool-call events to an AgentGuard Timeplus stream for real-time observability and security monitoring.

Installation

pip install agentguard-hermes
agentguard-hermes install

This copies the plugin into ~/.hermes/plugins/agentguard/ where Hermes auto-loads it on startup.

Configuration

Set environment variables before starting Hermes:

Variable	Default	Description
AGENTGUARD_TIMEPLUS_URL	http://localhost:3218	Timeplus Enterprise HTTP endpoint
AGENTGUARD_USERNAME	proton	Timeplus username
AGENTGUARD_PASSWORD	(empty)	Timeplus password
AGENTGUARD_AGENT_ID	hostname	Identifier for this agent instance
AGENTGUARD_DEPLOYMENT_ID	local	Deployment environment tag
AGENTGUARD_DEPLOYMENT_NAME	Local Dev	Human-readable deployment name
AGENTGUARD_STREAM	agentguard_hook_events	Target Timeplus stream

Example

export AGENTGUARD_TIMEPLUS_URL=http://timeplus.example.com:3218
export AGENTGUARD_USERNAME=proton
export AGENTGUARD_PASSWORD=secret
export AGENTGUARD_DEPLOYMENT_ID=production
export AGENTGUARD_DEPLOYMENT_NAME="Production Hermes"

hermes

What gets captured

Every Hermes hook event is forwarded to the agentguard_hook_events stream:

Hermes hook	Sent as	Description
on_session_start	on_session_start	New session begins
on_session_end	conversation_end	Single chat turn completed
on_session_finalize	on_session_end	Session fully torn down (CLI exit, /reset)
on_session_reset	on_session_reset	Session rotated via /new
pre_llm_call	pre_llm_call	Before each LLM turn
post_llm_call	post_llm_call	After each LLM turn
pre_api_request	pre_api_request	Before each raw API call (token metrics)
post_api_request	post_api_request	After each raw API call
pre_tool_call	pre_tool_call	Before each tool execution
post_tool_call	post_tool_call	After each tool execution

conversation_history is stripped from all events before ingestion — it is unbounded and contains no information not already available from the individual turn events.

Custom install path

agentguard-hermes install --hermes-dir /path/to/hermes/data

Manual installation (Makefile / Docker)

If you run Hermes via the provided Docker Compose setup in agents/hermes/:

make configure   # copies plugin into .hermes/plugins/agentguard/
make cli         # start Hermes CLI with AgentGuard env vars pre-set
make start       # start Hermes gateway + web dashboard

Publishing to PyPI

pip install hatch
cd agents/hermes/agentguard-plugin
hatch build
hatch publish