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"system_prompt": "You are Hermes Agent, an intelligent AI assistant created by Nous Research. You are helpful, knowledgeable, and direct. You assist users with a wide range of tasks including answering questions, writing and editing code, analyzing information, creative work, and executing actions via your tools. You communicate clearly, admit uncertainty when appropriate, and prioritize being genuinely useful over being verbose unless otherwise directed below. Be targeted and efficient in your exploration and investigations.\n\nIf the user asks about configuring, setting up, or using Hermes Agent itself, load the `hermes-agent` skill with skill_view(name='hermes-agent') before answering. Docs: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs\n\nYou have persistent memory across sessions. Save durable facts using the memory tool: user preferences, environment details, tool quirks, and stable conventions. Memory is injected into every turn, so keep it compact and focused on facts that will still matter later.\nPrioritize what reduces future user steering — the most valuable memory is one that prevents the user from having to correct or remind you again. User preferences and recurring corrections matter more than procedural task details.\nDo NOT save task progress, session outcomes, completed-work logs, or temporary TODO state to memory; use session_search to recall those from past transcripts. If you've discovered a new way to do something, solved a problem that could be necessary later, save it as a skill with the skill tool.\nWrite memories as declarative facts, not instructions to yourself. 'User prefers concise responses' ✓ — 'Always respond concisely' ✗. 'Project uses pytest with xdist' ✓ — 'Run tests with pytest -n 4' ✗. Imperative phrasing gets re-read as a directive in later sessions and can cause repeated work or override the user's current request. Procedures and workflows belong in skills, not memory. When the user references something from a past conversation or you suspect relevant cross-session context exists, use session_search to recall it before asking them to repeat themselves. After completing a complex task (5+ tool calls), fixing a tricky error, or discovering a non-trivial workflow, save the approach as a skill with skill_manage so you can reuse it next time.\nWhen using a skill and finding it outdated, incomplete, or wrong, patch it immediately with skill_manage(action='patch') — don't wait to be asked. Skills that aren't maintained become liabilities.\n\n## Skills (mandatory)\nBefore replying, scan the skills below. If a skill matches or is even partially relevant to your task, you MUST load it with skill_view(name) and follow its instructions. Err on the side of loading — it is always better to have context you don't need than to miss critical steps, pitfalls, or established workflows. Skills contain specialized knowledge — API endpoints, tool-specific commands, and proven workflows that outperform general-purpose approaches. Load the skill even if you think you could handle the task with basic tools like web_search or terminal. Skills also encode the user's preferred approach, conventions, and quality standards for tasks like code review, planning, and testing — load them even for tasks you already know how to do, because the skill defines how it should be done here.\nWhenever the user asks you to configure, set up, install, enable, disable, modify, or troubleshoot Hermes Agent itself — its CLI, config, models, providers, tools, skills, voice, gateway, plugins, or any feature — load the `hermes-agent` skill first. It has the actual commands (e.g. `hermes config set …`, `hermes tools`, `hermes setup`) so you don't have to guess or invent workarounds.\nIf a skill has issues, fix it with skill_manage(action='patch').\nAfter difficult/iterative tasks, offer to save as a skill. If a skill you loaded was missing steps, had wrong commands, or needed pitfalls you discovered, update it before finishing.\n\n\n 3d-printing:\n - 3d-druck-kiwi: Vollständiger Workflow zum Erstellen druckbarer 3D-Modell...\n autonomous-ai-agents: Skills for spawning and orchestrating autonomous AI coding agents and multi-agent workflows — running independent agent processes, delegating tasks, and coordinating parallel workstreams.\n - claude-code: Delegate coding to Claude Code CLI (features, PRs).\n - hermes-agent: Configure, extend, or contribute to Hermes Agent.\n - opencode: Delegate coding to OpenCode CLI (features, PR review).\n cad-3d-print:\n - cad-3d-print: Parametric 3D modeling with trimesh for FDM printing. 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"function": {
"name": "clarify",
"description": "Ask the user a question when you need clarification, feedback, or a decision before proceeding. Supports two modes:\n\n1. **Multiple choice** — provide up to 4 choices. The user picks one or types their own answer via a 5th 'Other' option.\n2. **Open-ended** — omit choices entirely. The user types a free-form response.\n\nUse this tool when:\n- The task is ambiguous and you need the user to choose an approach\n- You want post-task feedback ('How did that work out?')\n- You want to offer to save a skill or update memory\n- A decision has meaningful trade-offs the user should weigh in on\n\nDo NOT use this tool for simple yes/no confirmation of dangerous commands (the terminal tool handles that). Prefer making a reasonable default choice yourself when the decision is low-stakes.",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"question": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The question to present to the user."
},
"choices": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"maxItems": 4,
"description": "Up to 4 answer choices. Omit this parameter entirely to ask an open-ended question. When provided, the UI automatically appends an 'Other (type your answer)' option."
}
},
"required": [
"question"
]
}
}
},
{
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "cronjob",
"description": "Manage scheduled cron jobs with a single compressed tool.\n\nUse action='create' to schedule a new job from a prompt or one or more skills.\nUse action='list' to inspect jobs.\nUse action='update', 'pause', 'resume', 'remove', or 'run' to manage an existing job.\n\nTo stop a job the user no longer wants: first action='list' to find the job_id, then action='remove' with that job_id. Never guess job IDs — always list first.\n\nJobs run in a fresh session with no current-chat context, so prompts must be self-contained.\nIf skills are provided on create, the future cron run loads those skills in order, then follows the prompt as the task instruction.\nOn update, passing skills=[] clears attached skills.\n\nNOTE: The agent's final response is auto-delivered to the target. Put the primary\nuser-facing content in the final response. Cron jobs run autonomously with no user\npresent — they cannot ask questions or request clarification.\n\nImportant safety rule: cron-run sessions should not recursively schedule more cron jobs.",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"action": {
"type": "string",
"description": "One of: create, list, update, pause, resume, remove, run"
},
"job_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Required for update/pause/resume/remove/run"
},
"prompt": {
"type": "string",
"description": "For create: the full self-contained prompt. If skills are also provided, this becomes the task instruction paired with those skills."
},
"schedule": {
"type": "string",
"description": "For create/update: '30m', 'every 2h', '0 9 * * *', or ISO timestamp"
},
"name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Optional human-friendly name"
},
"repeat": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Optional repeat count. Omit for defaults (once for one-shot, forever for recurring)."
},
"deliver": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Omit this parameter to auto-deliver back to the current chat and topic (recommended). Auto-detection preserves thread/topic context. Only set explicitly when the user asks to deliver somewhere OTHER than the current conversation. Values: 'origin' (same as omitting), 'local' (no delivery, save only), or platform:chat_id:thread_id for a specific destination. Examples: 'telegram:-1001234567890:17585', 'discord:#engineering', 'sms:+15551234567'. WARNING: 'platform:chat_id' without :thread_id loses topic targeting."
},
"skills": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Optional ordered list of skill names to load before executing the cron prompt. On update, pass an empty array to clear attached skills."
},
"model": {
"type": "object",
"description": "Optional per-job model override. If provider is omitted, the current main provider is pinned at creation time so the job stays stable.",
"properties": {
"provider": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Provider name (e.g. 'openrouter', 'anthropic', or 'custom:' for a provider defined in custom_providers config — always include the ':' suffix, never pass the bare 'custom'). Omit to use and pin the current provider."
},
"model": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Model name (e.g. 'anthropic/claude-sonnet-4', 'claude-sonnet-4')"
}
},
"required": [
"model"
]
},
"script": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Optional path to a script that runs each tick. In the default mode its stdout is injected into the agent's prompt as context (data-collection / change-detection pattern). With no_agent=True, the script IS the job and its stdout is delivered verbatim (classic watchdog pattern). Relative paths resolve under ~/.hermes/scripts/. ``.sh``/``.bash`` extensions run via bash, everything else via Python. On update, pass empty string to clear."
},
"no_agent": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": false,
"description": "Default: False (LLM-driven job — the agent runs the prompt each tick). Set True to skip the LLM entirely: the scheduler just runs ``script`` on schedule and delivers its stdout verbatim. No tokens, no agent loop, no model override honoured. \n\nREQUIREMENTS when True: ``script`` MUST be set (``prompt`` and ``skills`` are ignored). \n\nDELIVERY SEMANTICS when True: (a) non-empty stdout is sent verbatim as the message; (b) EMPTY stdout means SILENT — nothing is sent to the user and they won't see anything happened, so design your script to stay quiet when there's nothing to report (the watchdog pattern); (c) non-zero exit / timeout sends an error alert so a broken watchdog can't fail silently. \n\nWHEN TO USE True: recurring script-only pings where the script itself produces the exact message text (memory/disk/GPU watchdogs, threshold alerts, heartbeats, CI notifications, API pollers with a fixed output shape). WHEN TO USE False (default): anything that needs reasoning — summarize a feed, draft a daily briefing, pick interesting items, rephrase data for a human, follow conditional logic based on content."
},
"context_from": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Optional job ID or list of job IDs whose most recent completed output is injected into the prompt as context before each run. Use this to chain cron jobs: job A collects data, job B processes it. Each entry must be a valid job ID (from cronjob action='list'). Note: injects the most recent completed output — does not wait for upstream jobs running in the same tick. On update, pass an empty array to clear."
},
"enabled_toolsets": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Optional list of toolset names to restrict the job's agent to (e.g. [\"web\", \"terminal\", \"file\", \"delegation\"]). When set, only tools from these toolsets are loaded, significantly reducing input token overhead. When omitted, all default tools are loaded. Infer from the job's prompt — e.g. use \"web\" if it calls web_search, \"terminal\" if it runs scripts, \"file\" if it reads files, \"delegation\" if it calls delegate_task. On update, pass an empty array to clear."
},
"workdir": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Optional absolute path to run the job from. When set, AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md / .cursorrules from that directory are injected into the system prompt, and the terminal/file/code_exec tools use it as their working directory — useful for running a job inside a specific project repo. Must be an absolute path that exists. When unset (default), preserves the original behaviour: no project context files, tools use the scheduler's cwd. On update, pass an empty string to clear. Jobs with workdir run sequentially (not parallel) to keep per-job directories isolated."
}
},
"required": [
"action"
]
}
}
},
{
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "delegate_task",
"description": "Spawn one or more subagents to work on tasks in isolated contexts. Each subagent gets its own conversation, terminal session, and toolset. Only the final summary is returned -- intermediate tool results never enter your context window.\n\nTWO MODES (one of 'goal' or 'tasks' is required):\n1. Single task: provide 'goal' (+ optional context, toolsets)\n2. Batch (parallel): provide 'tasks' array with up to delegation.max_concurrent_children items (default 3, configurable via config.yaml, no hard ceiling). All run concurrently and results are returned together. Nested delegation requires role='orchestrator' and delegation.max_spawn_depth >= 2.\n\nWHEN TO USE delegate_task:\n- Reasoning-heavy subtasks (debugging, code review, research synthesis)\n- Tasks that would flood your context with intermediate data\n- Parallel independent workstreams (research A and B simultaneously)\n\nWHEN NOT TO USE (use these instead):\n- Mechanical multi-step work with no reasoning needed -> use execute_code\n- Single tool call -> just call the tool directly\n- Tasks needing user interaction -> subagents cannot use clarify\n- Durable long-running work that must outlive the current turn -> use cronjob (action='create') or terminal(background=True, notify_on_complete=True) instead. delegate_task runs SYNCHRONOUSLY inside the parent turn: if the parent is interrupted (user sends a new message, /stop, /new) the child is cancelled with status='interrupted' and its work is discarded. Children cannot continue in the background.\n\nIMPORTANT:\n- Subagents have NO memory of your conversation. Pass all relevant info (file paths, error messages, constraints) via the 'context' field.\n- If the user is writing in a non-English language, or asked for output in a specific language / tone / style, say so in 'context' (e.g. \"respond in Chinese\", \"return output in Japanese\"). Otherwise subagents default to English and their summaries will contaminate your final reply with the wrong language.\n- Subagent summaries are SELF-REPORTS, not verified facts. A subagent that claims \"uploaded successfully\" or \"file written\" may be wrong. For operations with external side-effects (HTTP POST/PUT, remote writes, file creation at shared paths, publishing), require the subagent to return a verifiable handle (URL, ID, absolute path, HTTP status) and verify it yourself — fetch the URL, stat the file, read back the content — before telling the user the operation succeeded.\n- Leaf subagents (role='leaf', the default) CANNOT call: delegate_task, clarify, memory, send_message, execute_code.\n- Orchestrator subagents (role='orchestrator') retain delegate_task so they can spawn their own workers, but still cannot use clarify, memory, send_message, or execute_code. Orchestrators are bounded by delegation.max_spawn_depth (default 2) and can be disabled globally via delegation.orchestrator_enabled=false.\n- Each subagent gets its own terminal session (separate working directory and state).\n- Results are always returned as an array, one entry per task.",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"goal": {
"type": "string",
"description": "What the subagent should accomplish. Be specific and self-contained -- the subagent knows nothing about your conversation history."
},
"context": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Background information the subagent needs: file paths, error messages, project structure, constraints. The more specific you are, the better the subagent performs."
},
"toolsets": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Toolsets to enable for this subagent. Default: inherits your enabled toolsets. Available toolsets: 'browser', 'cronjob', 'discord', 'discord_admin', 'feishu_doc', 'feishu_drive', 'file', 'homeassistant', 'image_gen', 'kanban', 'search', 'session_search', 'skills', 'spotify', 'terminal', 'todo', 'tts', 'video', 'vision', 'web', 'yuanbao'. Common patterns: ['terminal', 'file'] for code work, ['web'] for research, ['browser'] for web interaction, ['terminal', 'file', 'web'] for full-stack tasks."
},
"tasks": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"goal": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Task goal"
},
"context": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Task-specific context"
},
"toolsets": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Toolsets for this specific task. Available: 'browser', 'cronjob', 'discord', 'discord_admin', 'feishu_doc', 'feishu_drive', 'file', 'homeassistant', 'image_gen', 'kanban', 'search', 'session_search', 'skills', 'spotify', 'terminal', 'todo', 'tts', 'video', 'vision', 'web', 'yuanbao'. Use 'web' for network access, 'terminal' for shell, 'browser' for web interaction."
},
"acp_command": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Per-task ACP command override (e.g. 'claude'). Overrides the top-level acp_command for this task only."
},
"acp_args": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Per-task ACP args override."
},
"role": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"leaf",
"orchestrator"
],
"description": "Per-task role override. See top-level 'role' for semantics."
}
},
"required": [
"goal"
]
},
"description": "Batch mode: tasks to run in parallel (limit configurable via delegation.max_concurrent_children, default 3). Each gets its own subagent with isolated context and terminal session. When provided, top-level goal/context/toolsets are ignored."
},
"role": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"leaf",
"orchestrator"
],
"description": "Role of the child agent. 'leaf' (default) = focused worker, cannot delegate further. 'orchestrator' = can use delegate_task to spawn its own workers. Requires delegation.max_spawn_depth >= 2 in config; ignored (treated as 'leaf') when the child would exceed max_spawn_depth or when delegation.orchestrator_enabled=false."
},
"acp_command": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Override ACP command for child agents (e.g. 'claude', 'copilot'). When set, children use ACP subprocess transport instead of inheriting the parent's transport. Enables spawning Claude Code (claude --acp --stdio) or other ACP-capable agents from any parent, including Discord/Telegram/CLI."
},
"acp_args": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Arguments for the ACP command (default: ['--acp', '--stdio']). Only used when acp_command is set. Example: ['--acp', '--stdio', '--model', 'claude-opus-4-6']"
}
}
}
}
},
{
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "execute_code",
"description": "Run a Python script that can call Hermes tools programmatically. Use this when you need 3+ tool calls with processing logic between them, need to filter/reduce large tool outputs before they enter your context, need conditional branching (if X then Y else Z), or need to loop (fetch N pages, process N files, retry on failure).\n\nUse normal tool calls instead when: single tool call with no processing, you need to see the full result and apply complex reasoning, or the task requires interactive user input.\n\nAvailable via `from hermes_tools import ...`:\n\n read_file(path: str, offset: int = 1, limit: int = 500) -> dict\n Lines are 1-indexed. Returns {\"content\": \"...\", \"total_lines\": N}\n write_file(path: str, content: str) -> dict\n Always overwrites the entire file.\n search_files(pattern: str, target=\"content\", path=\".\", file_glob=None, limit=50) -> dict\n target: \"content\" (search inside files) or \"files\" (find files by name). Returns {\"matches\": [...]}\n patch(path: str, old_string: str, new_string: str, replace_all: bool = False) -> dict\n Replaces old_string with new_string in the file.\n terminal(command: str, timeout=None, workdir=None) -> dict\n Foreground only (no background/pty). Returns {\"output\": \"...\", \"exit_code\": N}\n\nLimits: 5-minute timeout, 50KB stdout cap, max 50 tool calls per script. terminal() is foreground-only (no background or pty).\n\nScripts run in the session's working directory with the active venv's python, so project deps (pandas, etc.) and relative paths work like in terminal().\n\nPrint your final result to stdout. Use Python stdlib (json, re, math, csv, datetime, collections, etc.) for processing between tool calls.\n\nAlso available (no import needed — built into hermes_tools):\n json_parse(text: str) — json.loads with strict=False; use for terminal() output with control chars\n shell_quote(s: str) — shlex.quote(); use when interpolating dynamic strings into shell commands\n retry(fn, max_attempts=3, delay=2) — retry with exponential backoff for transient failures",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"code": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Python code to execute. Import tools with `from hermes_tools import terminal, ...` and print your final result to stdout."
}
},
"required": [
"code"
]
}
}
},
{
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "feishu_doc_read",
"description": "Read the full content of a Feishu/Lark document as plain text. Useful when you need more context beyond the quoted text in a comment.",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"doc_token": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The document token (from the document URL or comment context)."
}
},
"required": [
"doc_token"
]
}
}
},
{
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "feishu_drive_add_comment",
"description": "Add a new whole-document comment on a Feishu document. Use this for whole-document comments or as a fallback when reply_comment fails with code 1069302.",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"file_token": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The document file token."
},
"content": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The comment text content (plain text only, no markdown)."
},
"file_type": {
"type": "string",
"description": "File type (default: docx).",
"default": "docx"
}
},
"required": [
"file_token",
"content"
]
}
}
},
{
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "feishu_drive_list_comment_replies",
"description": "List all replies in a comment thread on a Feishu document.",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"file_token": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The document file token."
},
"comment_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The comment ID to list replies for."
},
"file_type": {
"type": "string",
"description": "File type (default: docx).",
"default": "docx"
},
"page_size": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Number of replies per page (max 100).",
"default": 100
},
"page_token": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Pagination token for next page."
}
},
"required": [
"file_token",
"comment_id"
]
}
}
},
{
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "feishu_drive_list_comments",
"description": "List comments on a Feishu document. Use is_whole=true to list whole-document comments only.",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"file_token": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The document file token."
},
"file_type": {
"type": "string",
"description": "File type (default: docx).",
"default": "docx"
},
"is_whole": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "If true, only return whole-document comments.",
"default": false
},
"page_size": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Number of comments per page (max 100).",
"default": 100
},
"page_token": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Pagination token for next page."
}
},
"required": [
"file_token"
]
}
}
},
{
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "feishu_drive_reply_comment",
"description": "Reply to a local comment thread on a Feishu document. Use this for local (quoted-text) comments. For whole-document comments, use feishu_drive_add_comment instead.",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"file_token": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The document file token."
},
"comment_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The comment ID to reply to."
},
"content": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The reply text content (plain text only, no markdown)."
},
"file_type": {
"type": "string",
"description": "File type (default: docx).",
"default": "docx"
}
},
"required": [
"file_token",
"comment_id",
"content"
]
}
}
},
{
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "memory",
"description": "Save durable information to persistent memory that survives across sessions. Memory is injected into future turns, so keep it compact and focused on facts that will still matter later.\n\nWHEN TO SAVE (do this proactively, don't wait to be asked):\n- User corrects you or says 'remember this' / 'don't do that again'\n- User shares a preference, habit, or personal detail (name, role, timezone, coding style)\n- You discover something about the environment (OS, installed tools, project structure)\n- You learn a convention, API quirk, or workflow specific to this user's setup\n- You identify a stable fact that will be useful again in future sessions\n\nPRIORITY: User preferences and corrections > environment facts > procedural knowledge. The most valuable memory prevents the user from having to repeat themselves.\n\nDo NOT save task progress, session outcomes, completed-work logs, or temporary TODO state to memory; use session_search to recall those from past transcripts.\nIf you've discovered a new way to do something, solved a problem that could be necessary later, save it as a skill with the skill tool.\n\nTWO TARGETS:\n- 'user': who the user is -- name, role, preferences, communication style, pet peeves\n- 'memory': your notes -- environment facts, project conventions, tool quirks, lessons learned\n\nACTIONS: add (new entry), replace (update existing -- old_text identifies it), remove (delete -- old_text identifies it).\n\nSKIP: trivial/obvious info, things easily re-discovered, raw data dumps, and temporary task state.",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"action": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"add",
"replace",
"remove"
],
"description": "The action to perform."
},
"target": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"memory",
"user"
],
"description": "Which memory store: 'memory' for personal notes, 'user' for user profile."
},
"content": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The entry content. Required for 'add' and 'replace'."
},
"old_text": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Short unique substring identifying the entry to replace or remove."
}
},
"required": [
"action",
"target"
]
}
}
},
{
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "patch",
"description": "Targeted find-and-replace edits in files. Use this instead of sed/awk in terminal. Uses fuzzy matching (9 strategies) so minor whitespace/indentation differences won't break it. Returns a unified diff. Auto-runs syntax checks after editing.\n\nReplace mode (default): find a unique string and replace it.\nPatch mode: apply V4A multi-file patches for bulk changes.",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"mode": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"replace",
"patch"
],
"description": "Edit mode: 'replace' for targeted find-and-replace, 'patch' for V4A multi-file patches",
"default": "replace"
},
"path": {
"type": "string",
"description": "File path to edit (required for 'replace' mode)"
},
"old_string": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Text to find in the file (required for 'replace' mode). Must be unique in the file unless replace_all=true. Include enough surrounding context to ensure uniqueness."
},
"new_string": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Replacement text (required for 'replace' mode). Can be empty string to delete the matched text."
},
"replace_all": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Replace all occurrences instead of requiring a unique match (default: false)",
"default": false
},
"patch": {
"type": "string",
"description": "V4A format patch content (required for 'patch' mode). Format:\n*** Begin Patch\n*** Update File: path/to/file\n@@ context hint @@\n context line\n-removed line\n+added line\n*** End Patch"
}
},
"required": [
"mode"
]
}
}
},
{
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "process",
"description": "Manage background processes started with terminal(background=true). Actions: 'list' (show all), 'poll' (check status + new output), 'log' (full output with pagination), 'wait' (block until done or timeout), 'kill' (terminate), 'write' (send raw stdin data without newline), 'submit' (send data + Enter, for answering prompts), 'close' (close stdin/send EOF).",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"action": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"list",
"poll",
"log",
"wait",
"kill",
"write",
"submit",
"close"
],
"description": "Action to perform on background processes"
},
"session_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Process session ID (from terminal background output). Required for all actions except 'list'."
},
"data": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Text to send to process stdin (for 'write' and 'submit' actions)"
},
"timeout": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Max seconds to block for 'wait' action. Returns partial output on timeout.",
"minimum": 1
},
"offset": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Line offset for 'log' action (default: last 200 lines)"
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Max lines to return for 'log' action",
"minimum": 1
}
},
"required": [
"action"
]
}
}
},
{
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "read_file",
"description": "Read a text file with line numbers and pagination. Use this instead of cat/head/tail in terminal. Output format: 'LINE_NUM|CONTENT'. Suggests similar filenames if not found. Use offset and limit for large files. Reads exceeding ~100K characters are rejected; use offset and limit to read specific sections of large files. NOTE: Cannot read images or binary files — use vision_analyze for images.",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"path": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Path to the file to read (absolute, relative, or ~/path)"
},
"offset": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Line number to start reading from (1-indexed, default: 1)",
"default": 1,
"minimum": 1
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Maximum number of lines to read (default: 500, max: 2000)",
"default": 500,
"maximum": 2000
}
},
"required": [
"path"
]
}
}
},
{
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "search_files",
"description": "Search file contents or find files by name. Use this instead of grep/rg/find/ls in terminal. Ripgrep-backed, faster than shell equivalents.\n\nContent search (target='content'): Regex search inside files. Output modes: full matches with line numbers, file paths only, or match counts.\n\nFile search (target='files'): Find files by glob pattern (e.g., '*.py', '*config*'). Also use this instead of ls — results sorted by modification time.",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"pattern": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Regex pattern for content search, or glob pattern (e.g., '*.py') for file search"
},
"target": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"content",
"files"
],
"description": "'content' searches inside file contents, 'files' searches for files by name",
"default": "content"
},
"path": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Directory or file to search in (default: current working directory)",
"default": "."
},
"file_glob": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Filter files by pattern in grep mode (e.g., '*.py' to only search Python files)"
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Maximum number of results to return (default: 50)",
"default": 50
},
"offset": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Skip first N results for pagination (default: 0)",
"default": 0
},
"output_mode": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"content",
"files_only",
"count"
],
"description": "Output format for grep mode: 'content' shows matching lines with line numbers, 'files_only' lists file paths, 'count' shows match counts per file",
"default": "content"
},
"context": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Number of context lines before and after each match (grep mode only)",
"default": 0
}
},
"required": [
"pattern"
]
}
}
},
{
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "send_message",
"description": "Send a message to a connected messaging platform, or list available targets.\n\nIMPORTANT: When the user asks to send to a specific channel or person (not just a bare platform name), call send_message(action='list') FIRST to see available targets, then send to the correct one.\nIf the user just says a platform name like 'send to telegram', send directly to the home channel without listing first.",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"action": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"send",
"list"
],
"description": "Action to perform. 'send' (default) sends a message. 'list' returns all available channels/contacts across connected platforms."
},
"target": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Delivery target. Format: 'platform' (uses home channel), 'platform:#channel-name', 'platform:chat_id', or 'platform:chat_id:thread_id' for Telegram topics and Discord threads. Examples: 'telegram', 'telegram:-1001234567890:17585', 'discord:999888777:555444333', 'discord:#bot-home', 'slack:#engineering', 'signal:+155****4567', 'matrix:!roomid:server.org', 'matrix:@user:server.org', 'yuanbao:direct:' (DM), 'yuanbao:group:' (group chat)"
},
"message": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The message text to send. To send an image or file, include MEDIA: (e.g. 'MEDIA:/tmp/hermes/cache/img_xxx.jpg') in the message — the platform will deliver it as a native media attachment."
}
}
}
}
},
{
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "session_search",
"description": "Search your long-term memory of past conversations, or browse recent sessions. This is your recall -- every past session is searchable, and this tool summarizes what happened.\n\nTWO MODES:\n1. Recent sessions (no query): Call with no arguments to see what was worked on recently. Returns titles, previews, and timestamps. Zero LLM cost, instant. Start here when the user asks what were we working on or what did we do recently.\n2. Keyword search (with query): Search for specific topics across all past sessions. Returns LLM-generated summaries of matching sessions.\n\nUSE THIS PROACTIVELY when:\n- The user says 'we did this before', 'remember when', 'last time', 'as I mentioned'\n- The user asks about a topic you worked on before but don't have in current context\n- The user references a project, person, or concept that seems familiar but isn't in memory\n- You want to check if you've solved a similar problem before\n- The user asks 'what did we do about X?' or 'how did we fix Y?'\n\nDon't hesitate to search when it is actually cross-session -- it's fast and cheap. Better to search and confirm than to guess or ask the user to repeat themselves.\n\nSearch syntax: keywords joined with OR for broad recall (elevenlabs OR baseten OR funding), phrases for exact match (\"docker networking\"), boolean (python NOT java), prefix (deploy*). IMPORTANT: Use OR between keywords for best results — FTS5 defaults to AND which misses sessions that only mention some terms. If a broad OR query returns nothing, try individual keyword searches in parallel. Returns summaries of the top matching sessions.",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"query": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Search query — keywords, phrases, or boolean expressions to find in past sessions. Omit this parameter entirely to browse recent sessions instead (returns titles, previews, timestamps with no LLM cost)."
},
"role_filter": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Optional: only search messages from specific roles (comma-separated). E.g. 'user,assistant' to skip tool outputs."
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Max sessions to summarize (default: 3, max: 5).",
"default": 3
}
}
}
}
},
{
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "skill_manage",
"description": "Manage skills (create, update, delete). Skills are your procedural memory — reusable approaches for recurring task types. New skills go to ~/.hermes/skills/; existing skills can be modified wherever they live.\n\nActions: create (full SKILL.md + optional category), patch (old_string/new_string — preferred for fixes), edit (full SKILL.md rewrite — major overhauls only), delete, write_file, remove_file.\n\nOn delete, pass `absorbed_into=` when you're merging this skill's content into another one, or `absorbed_into=\"\"` when you're pruning it with no forwarding target. This lets the curator tell consolidation from pruning without guessing, so downstream consumers (cron jobs that reference the old skill name, etc.) get updated correctly. The target you name in `absorbed_into` must already exist — create/patch the umbrella first, then delete.\n\nCreate when: complex task succeeded (5+ calls), errors overcome, user-corrected approach worked, non-trivial workflow discovered, or user asks you to remember a procedure.\nUpdate when: instructions stale/wrong, OS-specific failures, missing steps or pitfalls found during use. If you used a skill and hit issues not covered by it, patch it immediately.\n\nAfter difficult/iterative tasks, offer to save as a skill. Skip for simple one-offs. Confirm with user before creating/deleting.\n\nGood skills: trigger conditions, numbered steps with exact commands, pitfalls section, verification steps. Use skill_view() to see format examples.\n\nPinned skills are protected from deletion only — skill_manage(action='delete') will refuse with a message pointing the user to `hermes curator unpin `. Patches and edits go through on pinned skills so you can still improve them as pitfalls come up; pin only guards against irrecoverable loss.",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"action": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"create",
"patch",
"edit",
"delete",
"write_file",
"remove_file"
],
"description": "The action to perform."
},
"name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Skill name (lowercase, hyphens/underscores, max 64 chars). Must match an existing skill for patch/edit/delete/write_file/remove_file."
},
"content": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Full SKILL.md content (YAML frontmatter + markdown body). Required for 'create' and 'edit'. For 'edit', read the skill first with skill_view() and provide the complete updated text."
},
"old_string": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Text to find in the file (required for 'patch'). Must be unique unless replace_all=true. Include enough surrounding context to ensure uniqueness."
},
"new_string": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Replacement text (required for 'patch'). Can be empty string to delete the matched text."
},
"replace_all": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "For 'patch': replace all occurrences instead of requiring a unique match (default: false)."
},
"category": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Optional category/domain for organizing the skill (e.g., 'devops', 'data-science', 'mlops'). Creates a subdirectory grouping. Only used with 'create'."
},
"file_path": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Path to a supporting file within the skill directory. For 'write_file'/'remove_file': required, must be under references/, templates/, scripts/, or assets/. For 'patch': optional, defaults to SKILL.md if omitted."
},
"file_content": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Content for the file. Required for 'write_file'."
},
"absorbed_into": {
"type": "string",
"description": "For 'delete' only — declares intent so the curator can tell consolidation from pruning without guessing. Pass the umbrella skill name when this skill's content was merged into another (the target must already exist). Pass an empty string when the skill is truly stale and being pruned with no forwarding target. Omitting the arg on delete is supported for backward compatibility but downstream tooling (e.g. cron-job skill reference rewriting) will have to guess at intent."
}
},
"required": [
"action",
"name"
]
}
}
},
{
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "skill_view",
"description": "Skills allow for loading information about specific tasks and workflows, as well as scripts and templates. Load a skill's full content or access its linked files (references, templates, scripts). First call returns SKILL.md content plus a 'linked_files' dict showing available references/templates/scripts. To access those, call again with file_path parameter.",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The skill name (use skills_list to see available skills). For plugin-provided skills, use the qualified form 'plugin:skill' (e.g. 'superpowers:writing-plans')."
},
"file_path": {
"type": "string",
"description": "OPTIONAL: Path to a linked file within the skill (e.g., 'references/api.md', 'templates/config.yaml', 'scripts/validate.py'). Omit to get the main SKILL.md content."
}
},
"required": [
"name"
]
}
}
},
{
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "skills_list",
"description": "List available skills (name + description). Use skill_view(name) to load full content.",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"category": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Optional category filter to narrow results"
}
}
}
}
},
{
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "terminal",
"description": "Execute shell commands on a Linux environment. Filesystem usually persists between calls.\n\nDo NOT use cat/head/tail to read files — use read_file instead.\nDo NOT use grep/rg/find to search — use search_files instead.\nDo NOT use ls to list directories — use search_files(target='files') instead.\nDo NOT use sed/awk to edit files — use patch instead.\nDo NOT use echo/cat heredoc to create files — use write_file instead.\nReserve terminal for: builds, installs, git, processes, scripts, network, package managers, and anything that needs a shell.\n\nForeground (default): Commands return INSTANTLY when done, even if the timeout is high. Set timeout=300 for long builds/scripts — you'll still get the result in seconds if it's fast. Prefer foreground for short commands.\nBackground: Set background=true to get a session_id. Two patterns:\n (1) Long-lived processes that never exit (servers, watchers).\n (2) Long-running tasks with notify_on_complete=true — you can keep working on other things and the system auto-notifies you when the task finishes. Great for test suites, builds, deployments, or anything that takes more than a minute.\nFor servers/watchers, do NOT use shell-level background wrappers (nohup/disown/setsid/trailing '&') in foreground mode. Use background=true so Hermes can track lifecycle and output.\nAfter starting a server, verify readiness with a health check or log signal, then run tests in a separate terminal() call. Avoid blind sleep loops.\nUse process(action=\"poll\") for progress checks, process(action=\"wait\") to block until done.\nWorking directory: Use 'workdir' for per-command cwd.\nPTY mode: Set pty=true for interactive CLI tools (Codex, Claude Code, Python REPL).\n\nDo NOT use vim/nano/interactive tools without pty=true — they hang without a pseudo-terminal. Pipe git output to cat if it might page.\n",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"command": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The command to execute on the VM"
},
"background": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Run the command in the background. Two patterns: (1) Long-lived processes that never exit (servers, watchers). (2) Long-running tasks paired with notify_on_complete=true — you can keep working and get notified when the task finishes. For short commands, prefer foreground with a generous timeout instead.",
"default": false
},
"timeout": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Max seconds to wait (default: 180, foreground max: 600). Returns INSTANTLY when command finishes — set high for long tasks, you won't wait unnecessarily. Foreground timeout above 600s is rejected; use background=true for longer commands.",
"minimum": 1
},
"workdir": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Working directory for this command (absolute path). Defaults to the session working directory."
},
"pty": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Run in pseudo-terminal (PTY) mode for interactive CLI tools like Codex, Claude Code, or Python REPL. Only works with local and SSH backends. Default: false.",
"default": false
},
"notify_on_complete": {
"type": "boolean",
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"content": "You are running as Hermes' background skill CURATOR. This is an UMBRELLA-BUILDING consolidation pass, not a passive audit and not a duplicate-finder.\n\nThe goal of the skill collection is a LIBRARY OF CLASS-LEVEL INSTRUCTIONS AND EXPERIENTIAL KNOWLEDGE. A collection of hundreds of narrow skills where each one captures one session's specific bug is a FAILURE of the library — not a feature. An agent searching skills matches on descriptions, not on exact names; one broad umbrella skill with labeled subsections beats five narrow siblings for discoverability, not the other way around.\n\nThe right target shape is CLASS-LEVEL skills with rich SKILL.md bodies + `references/`, `templates/`, and `scripts/` subfiles for session-specific detail — not one-session-one-skill micro-entries.\n\nHard rules — do not violate:\n1. DO NOT touch bundled or hub-installed skills. The candidate list below is already filtered to agent-created skills only.\n2. DO NOT delete any skill. Archiving (moving the skill's directory into ~/.hermes/skills/.archive/) is the maximum destructive action. Archives are recoverable; deletion is not.\n3. DO NOT touch skills shown as pinned=yes. Skip them entirely.\n4. DO NOT use usage counters as a reason to skip consolidation. The counters are new and often mostly zero. Judge overlap on CONTENT, not on use_count. 'use=0' is not evidence a skill is valuable; it's absence of evidence either way.\n5. DO NOT reject consolidation on the grounds that 'each skill has a distinct trigger'. Pairwise distinctness is the wrong bar. The right bar is: 'would a human maintainer write this as N separate skills, or as one skill with N labeled subsections?' When the answer is the latter, merge.\n\nHow to work — not optional:\n1. Scan the full candidate list. Identify PREFIX CLUSTERS (skills sharing a first word or domain keyword). Examples you are likely to find: hermes-config-*, hermes-dashboard-*, gateway-*, codex-*, ollama-*, anthropic-*, gemini-*, mcp-*, salvage-*, pr-*, competitor-*, python-*, security-*, etc. Expect 10-25 clusters.\n2. For each cluster with 2+ members, do NOT ask 'are these pairs overlapping?' — ask 'what is the UMBRELLA CLASS these skills all serve? Would a maintainer name that class and write one skill for it?' If yes, pick (or create) the umbrella and absorb the siblings into it.\n3. Three ways to consolidate — use the right one per cluster:\n a. MERGE INTO EXISTING UMBRELLA — one skill in the cluster is already broad enough to be the umbrella (example: `pr-triage-salvage` for the PR review cluster). Patch it to add a labeled section for each sibling's unique insight, then archive the siblings.\n b. CREATE A NEW UMBRELLA SKILL.md — no existing member is broad enough. Use skill_manage action=create to write a new class-level skill whose SKILL.md covers the shared workflow and has short labeled subsections. Archive the now-absorbed narrow siblings.\n c. DEMOTE TO REFERENCES/TEMPLATES/SCRIPTS — a sibling has narrow-but-valuable session-specific content. Move it into the umbrella's appropriate support directory:\n • `references/.md` for session-specific detail OR condensed knowledge banks (quoted research, API docs excerpts, domain notes, provider quirks, reproduction recipes)\n • `templates/.` for starter files meant to be copied and modified\n • `scripts/.` for statically re-runnable actions (verification scripts, fixture generators, probes)\n Then archive the old sibling. Use `terminal` with `mkdir -p ~/.hermes/skills//references/ && mv ... /references/.md` (or templates/ / scripts/).\n4. Also flag skills whose NAME is too narrow (contains a PR number, a feature codename, a specific error string, an 'audit' / 'diagnosis' / 'salvage' session artifact). These almost always belong as a subsection or support file under a class-level umbrella.\n5. Iterate. After one consolidation round, scan the remaining set and look for the NEXT umbrella opportunity. Don't stop after 3 merges.\n\nYour toolset:\n - skills_list, skill_view — read the current landscape\n - skill_manage action=patch — add sections to the umbrella\n - skill_manage action=create — create a new umbrella SKILL.md\n - skill_manage action=write_file — add a references/, templates/, or scripts/ file under an existing skill (the skill must already exist)\n - skill_manage action=delete — archive a skill. MUST pass `absorbed_into=` when you've merged its content into another skill, or `absorbed_into=\"\"` when you're truly pruning with no forwarding target. This drives cron-job skill-reference migration — guessing from your YAML summary after the fact is fragile.\n - terminal — mv a sibling into the archive OR move its content into a support subfile\n\n'keep' is a legitimate decision ONLY when the skill is already a class-level umbrella and none of the proposed merges would improve discoverability. 'This is narrow but distinct from its siblings' is NOT a reason to keep — it's a reason to move it under an umbrella as a subsection or support file.\n\nExpected output: real umbrella-ification. Process every obvious cluster. If you end the pass with fewer than 10 archives, you stopped too early — go back and look at the clusters you left alone.\n\nWhen done, write a human summary AND a structured machine-readable block so downstream tooling can distinguish consolidation from pruning. Format EXACTLY:\n\n## Structured summary (required)\n```yaml\nconsolidations:\n - from: \n into: \n reason: \nprunings:\n - name: \n reason: \n```\n\nEvery skill you moved to .archive/ MUST appear in exactly one of the two lists. If you consolidated X into umbrella Y (patched Y, wrote a references file to Y, or created Y with X's content absorbed), X goes under `consolidations` with `into: Y`. If you archived X with no absorption — truly stale, irrelevant, or obsolete — X goes under `prunings`. Leave a list empty (`consolidations: []`) if none. Do not omit the block. 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"content": "{\"success\": true, \"name\": \"academic-research\", \"description\": \"Research professors, extract/publications, analyze research interests, and develop thesis/Bachelorarbeit topics — optimized for Austrian legal academia (WU Wien, RIS, Jina.ai workaround).\", \"tags\": [], \"related_skills\": [], \"content\": \"---\\nname: academic-research\\ndescription: Research professors, extract/publications, analyze research interests, and develop thesis/Bachelorarbeit topics — optimized for Austrian legal academia (WU Wien, RIS, Jina.ai workaround).\\n---\\n\\n# Academic Research — Professor & Thesis Research\\n\\nResearch workflow for academic tasks: profile a professor, extract their publications, analyze research focus, and develop thesis topics that align with their expertise.\\n\\n## Triggers\\n\\n- Researching a professor (profile, publications, research interests)\\n- Finding sources/literature for a Bachelorarbeit, Masterarbeit, or seminar paper\\n- Analyzing publication history to predict which topics a professor would supervise\\n- Extracting publications from university websites (especially WU Wien)\\n\\n---\\n\\n## Step 1: Find Professor Profile\\n\\nWU Wien uses SPA-based pages that return empty bodies to direct `curl`. Workaround:\\n\\n```\\ncurl -sL \\\"https://r.jina.ai/https://www.wu.ac.at/...\\\" -H \\\"Accept: text/plain\\\"\\n```\\n\\nStart from the institute page (`/unternehmensrecht/institut/...`) to discover the correct profile URL, then extract from the subpages:\\n- **Profile**: `/institut/.../prof-kalss` → name, title, email, phone, research areas\\n- **Publications**: `/institut/.../forschungsaktivitaeten` → massive list of books + articles\\n- **Abschlussarbeiten**: `/institut/.../abschlussarbeiten/bewerbung` → application procedure, deadlines\\n\\nPitfall: WU pages are navigation-heavy; Jina captures the full nav tree. Filter aggressively.\\n\\n---\\n\\n## Step 2: Extract Publications\\n\\nThe WU Forschungsaktivitäten page lists publications as:\\n\\n```\\n2025**Kalss, Susanne, Probst, Stephan.** 2025. Familienunternehmen. [Mehr erfahren](link)\\n```\\n\\n**Parsing approach** (Python):\\n\\n```python\\nimport re\\n\\n# Extract all year+block pairs\\npub_blocks = re.findall(r'(\\\\d{4})\\\\*\\\\*(.+?)(?=\\\\n\\\\d{4}\\\\*\\\\*|\\\\n##|\\\\Z)', text, re.DOTALL)\\n\\nfor year, block in pub_blocks:\\n block = re.sub(r'\\\\[Mehr erfahren\\\\]\\\\([^)]+\\\\)', '', block) # Remove links\\n lines = [l.strip() for l in block.split('\\\\n') if l.strip() and 'Kalss' in l]\\n for line in lines:\\n line = re.sub(r'\\\\*\\\\*', '', line)\\n is_book = 'In:' not in line and 'Hrsg.' not in line\\n # is_book → Monographie/Kommentar\\n # else → Aufsatz/Beitrag\\n```\\n\\nDeduplicate with a `set()` on the full line text.\\n\\n---\\n\\n## Step 3: Topic Analysis\\n\\nClassify publications into topic areas by keyword matching:\\n\\n```python\\ntopics = {\\n 'Gesellschaftsrecht': ['gesellschaftsrecht', 'aktg', 'gmbh', 'flexco', 'aktiengesellschaft', 'mehrstimmrecht'],\\n 'Aufsichtsrat': ['aufsichtsrat', 'corporate governance', 'beirat', 'compliance'],\\n 'Kapitalmarktrecht': ['kapitalmarkt', 'börse', 'anleger', 'wertpapier', 'übernahmerecht'],\\n 'Stiftungsrecht': ['stiftung', 'privatstiftung', 'stiftungsvorstand'],\\n 'Nachhaltigkeit/ESG': ['nachhaltigkeit', 'klima', 'csddd', 'lieferkette'],\\n # ... add more as needed\\n}\\n```\\n\\nCount per topic and per year; look for *recent* clusters (2023+) as indicators of active interest.\\n\\n---\\n\\n## Step 4: Topic Selection Strategy\\n\\nFor thesis topics that maximize acceptance chance:\\n\\n1. **Highest volume** → safest (professor has written most about this, you can cite them heavily)\\n2. **Recent activity** → highest interest (they're currently building this area)\\n3. **Cross-cutting topics** → best of both worlds (bridges two of their established fields)\\n\\nFor Kalss specifically:\\n- Aufsichtsrat: 91 publications, 44 since 2016 → safest\\n- Nachhaltigkeit/ESG: 11 publications, all from 2022–2025 → her current passion\\n- Mehrstimmrechte: 36 publications, co-authored with Hopt → prestige connection\\n\\n---\\n\\n## Austrian Legal Research: Source Strategy\\n\\n### RIS (Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes) — DO NOT USE\\n\\nRIS at `ris.bka.gv.at` is **completely broken for programmatic access**. Every approach fails:\\n\\n- **GeltendeFassung.wxe** returns 404 for valid Gesetzesnummern (e.g. WEG 2002: 20000724) — \\\"nicht mehr oder noch nicht in Kraft\\\" even when the law is in force. Jina.ai captures only this error message.\\n- **Dokument.wxe** with NOR-nummer (e.g. NOR40252684) returns **random wrong documents** — an ABGB query returned \\\"Land- und forstwirtschaftliche Verordnung biologische Arbeitsstoffe § 10\\\"\\n- **ELI URLs** (`/eli/bgbl/I/2002/70/P13/...`) redirect to completely wrong laws (e.g. \\\"Limit-Verordnung 2012/13\\\" instead of WEG § 13)\\n- **OGH decision search** (`Ergebnis.wxe?Abfrage=Justiz`) returns ASP.NET ViewState pages — Geschäftszahlen and titles are buried in postback-dependent JavaScript, unextractable by curl or Jina\\n- **HTML-only URLs** (`/Dokumente/Bundesnormen/NOR.../NOR....html`) return 44 KB pages with zero text content after tag stripping — just navigation and JavaScript\\n- **Jina.ai** captures only the navigation sidebar, not document content, because RIS is a SPA that renders content client-side via ViewState postbacks\\n\\n### Workflow for Austrian Legal Research (USE THIS)\\n\\n```\\n1. JUSLINE.at → Gesetzestext im Volltext (immer treffer, direkt verlinkbar)\\n2. delegate_task mit web-Toolset → OGH-Rechtsprechung + Fachliteratur finden\\n3. Ergebnis als Markdown-Gutachten in /tmp/ speichern lassen\\n4. Gutachten lesen + Quellen prüfen, dann als Antwort formatieren\\n```\\n\\n### 1. JUSLINE.at — Primary Source for Gesetzestexte\\n\\nDirectly linkable, always returns current text. URL pattern:\\n- `https://www.jusline.at/gesetz/abgb/paragraf/829` → § 829 ABGB\\n- `https://www.jusline.at/gesetz/weg/paragraf/13` → § 13 WEG 2002\\n- `https://www.jusline.at/gesetz/abgb/paragraf/781` → § 781 ABGB (Schenkungsanrechnung)\\n\\nJUSLINE HTML is clean: strip `