Auteur is built to seat Hermes
Auteur is designed to seat Hermes while your persistent projects, governed campaigns, verification, and receipts stay underneath. The agent can change; the project, process, authority, and evidence remain.
What Hermes does well
Hermes is Nous Research's open-model line, run locally or through the provider of your choice.
What Auteur adds
For someone using Hermes, Auteur would add a persistent project that keeps its own canon and evidence instead of losing them to the session; governed multi-round campaigns; production tools beyond code; and canonical receipts that verify what actually changed independently of the agent's own claim. Hermes would stay your interface, Auteur is the amplification and accountability layer behind it.
How it connects
Auteur would expose its control surface over the Model Context Protocol, and any MCP-capable harness would be a candidate seat.
- Client. Hermes would operate authorized Auteur domains as an MCP control surface.
- Executor. Hermes would run as a Build campaign seat under an executor profile, headless.
- Direct model. Auteur does not call a Hermes-specific model lane.
Which Auteur products it reaches
By design, a Hermes client connection would address the Auteur domains you are entitled to, writing and story, prep, film, game, learning, and the Build campaign system. Reachability is not entitlement: which domains you can operate depends on what you hold.
What is measurable
Auteur measures the work that runs through it, deriving token and cost accounting from the record of what it ran.
Auteur never invents missing usage data; missing = unknown, never zero. No token or cost figure is ever shown for work performed outside Auteur's visibility.
What this integration does not do
- It does not offer a Hermes-specific direct-model lane.
Security and authority boundary
Connecting Hermes would not grant it wildcard authority over your files, spending, publication, or application changes. The connection is an interface, not a grant of authority, what a connected agent may do stays governed by Auteur, not widened by connecting it.
Current status
Current per-mode status is shown above.
Proof
No published evidence yet. When a natural-language canary is recorded against Hermes, this section will link it. Follow progress on the roadmap.
Set it up
If you work in Hermes and want to be part of the compatibility testing, the invited local connection is the place to start:
Request Invitation, /founding-beta/?track=invite. A small, deliberately limited cohort; this starts a conversation with us, and seats, when offered, are paid.
Affiliation
Auteur is designed to connect with Hermes. No partnership, endorsement, or certification is claimed, and none exists.