Hermes Wingtips #71: hermes -z --resume, one-shot calls that keep the thread

posted 2026-09-13. original: https://x.com/witcheer/status/2099034806466015383

you call Hermes Agent from a script or a cron job with hermes -z: one prompt in, the final answer out, nothing else printed.

the next call can continue that same conversation. add --resume latest and the earlier turns come back with it, so a second prompt can build on the first answer. a session id or a session title works in place of latest.

it is the same agent, the same tools and the same skills as your normal chat, with the interactive layer stripped off.

hermes -z "summarise the open pull requests on this repo"

hermes -z "now list the three that touch the gateway" --resume latest

the prompt goes straight after -z; put --resume before -z or after the prompt. -z also reads stdin (hermes -z "summarise this" < notes.txt), and --usage-file report.json writes tokens, api calls and an estimated cost after the run. tool output stays out of the answer; hermes chat --oneshot -q "..." keeps it in the transcript.

docs: hermes -z, scripted one-shot

hand this to your agent: "write me a shell script that asks you three follow-up questions about this repo with hermes -z, each call resuming the previous one, and prints the three answers. show it before saving."