Persistent Goals
Persistent Goals ( ) gives Hermes a standing objective that survives across turns. After every turn a lightweight judge model checks whether the goal is satisfi
gives Hermes a standing objective that survives across turns. After every turn a lightweight judge model checks whether the goal is satisfied by the assistant's last response. If not, Hermes automatically feeds a continuation prompt back into the same session and keeps working — until the goal is achieved, you pause or clear it, or the turn budget runs out. …
What this page covers
- When to use it
- Quick start
- Commands
- Adding criteria mid-goal: /subgoal
- Behavior details
- The judge
- Fail-open semantics
- Turn budget
- User messages always preempt
- Mid-run safety (gateway)
- Persistence
- Prompt cache
- Configuration
- Choosing the judge model
- Example walkthrough
- When the judge gets it wrong
- Attribution
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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