Toolsets Reference
Toolsets are named bundles of tools that control what the agent can do. They're the primary mechanism for configuring tool availability per platform, per sessio
Toolsets are named bundles of tools that control what the agent can do. They're the primary mechanism for configuring tool availability per platform, per session, or per task. Every tool belongs to exactly one toolset. When you enable a toolset, all tools in that bundle become available to the agent. …
What this page covers
- How Toolsets Work
- Configuring Toolsets
- Per-session (CLI)
- Per-platform (config.yaml)
- Interactive management
- Core Toolsets
- Platform Toolsets
- Dynamic Toolsets
- MCP server toolsets
- Plugin toolsets
- Custom toolsets
- Wildcards
- Relationship to hermes tools
Section outline mirrored from the official Hermes Agent documentation. Follow any heading to read the complete text on the source site.
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