# Hermes Agent Features and Practical Usage
🚀 The CLI is the developer's daily window into the agent. Just type `hermes` in your repo and you get interactive chat, slash commands, and one-shot execution all in one.
📌 Title and Feature URL
Title: CLI
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📝 Overview
The Hermes CLI is a terminal chat interface. It shows a conversation stream, a fixed input prompt, and a status bar with the current model and token usage, letting you fine-tune behavior with slash commands as you work. Beyond interactive mode it supports single-query runs and session resume.
🔧 How It Works
・Launch modes include interactive (`hermes` or `hermes chat`), single-query (`hermes chat -q "..."`), and resume (`hermes --continue` / `hermes --resume
`).
・The status bar shows model name, token usage (e.g. 12.4K/200K), a color-coded context fill bar, estimated cost, compression count, background task count, and elapsed time.
・Slash commands are rich: `/model` (switch model), `/personality` (helpful, concise, technical, teacher, and more), `/voice on|off|tts`, `/reasoning high`, `/background `, `/sessions`, `/usage`, `/tools`, `/status`.
・Long conversations auto-summarize (compress) as they near the context limit, by default keeping the first 3 turns and last 20 turns and summarizing the middle.
🛠 Practical Usage
・Launch flags shape behavior: `--model` / `--provider` to pick a model, `-s` (`--skills`) to preload skills, `-w` for an isolated git worktree, `--tui` for the modern UI, and `--yolo` to auto-approve tool calls.
・Multiline input is `Alt+Enter` / `Ctrl+J`, external editor is `Ctrl+G`, and interrupt is `Ctrl+C` (double-press within 2s to force exit).
・Define LLM-free shell commands under `quick_commands` in `~/.hermes/config.yaml` and invoke them like `/status`.
・Set `busy_input_mode` to steer to inject input into the running turn via `/steer` while the agent works.
🎯 Use Cases
・From a repo, ask "find why the tests fail and fix them," then adjust with `/model` or `/reasoning` as it runs.
・Spin up parallel, isolated sessions with `/background` to progress separate tasks at once.
・Call `hermes chat -q "..."` one-shot from scripts or pipelines.
⚠️ Caveats
・`Shift+Enter` newlines are terminal-dependent; standard Windows Terminal and macOS cannot distinguish it from Enter.
・`/background` sessions are fully isolated from the main conversation history and share none of the foreground context.
・The CLI strips markdown fences and formatting wrappers from final replies for readability (code blocks and lists remain). Voice mode requires a supported terminal.
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Thanks for the shoutout,
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Three separate selling machines just lined up behind Bitcoin at the same price, and almost no trader watching the chart can see two of them. Everyone sees the first! That Bitcoin at 58,653 dollars, below every major moving average, with about 3.3 billion dollars pulled from ETFs this year.
That is the visible story. The two hidden ones are why $60k is not just a number. It is a trapdoor. Check closely!
The surface alone is bad enough. Bitcoin trades below all twelve of its major moving averages (MAs), every one flashing SELL, and the most important, the 200-day near 60,700 dollars, now sits above the price instead of below it.
For eighteen months that average was the floor buyers defended. It became the ceiling sellers lean on. Price under the 200-day with every shorter average stacked above it is what a downtrend looks like, and Bitcoin has been in one since the 126,000 dollar peak on 6th October 2025.
Now the first machine most folks usually miss. On Deribit, where the real Bitcoin options market lives, dealer gamma is negative around the $60k strike.
Strip the jargon and it means one brutal thing. The market makers who sold all those puts are forced to hedge in the same direction the price is already moving.
When Bitcoin falls, they sell more to stay balanced. When it rises, they buy. The options market is not cushioning the move, it is amplifying it. Below roughly $60k, every dealer becomes a seller into weakness, adding force to the same direction the ETF outflows are already pushing.
Then the second hidden machine, the one Citi just named. Treasury companies that loaded $BTC onto their balance sheets now sit on positions bought at higher prices, and if the drop deepens some may be forced to sell. A third stream of supply in the same spot. ETF redemptions, negative-gamma dealer hedging, and potential treasury selling all aim at the same thin band around $58-$60k, and each one triggers the next.
Outflows push price down, the lower price forces dealer selling, dealer selling pressures the treasuries, and the loop tightens.
That is why one number carries the whole market. 60,000 dollars is not a random line.
I think it is at once the 200-day moving average, the options level where dealer hedging flips from stabilizing to amplifying, and the shelf every chartist watches. Three systems, technical, derivative, and behavioral, converge on one price.
Lose it with conviction and the machinery below is built to accelerate, not absorb. That is the honest bear case, mechanical, not emotional. Yup!
The other half almost no BTC Bear will tell you is that the same structure that makes the downside violent is building the floor.
On-chain, the average holder is now close to break-even, the zone where past selloffs have exhausted themselves rather than deepened.
Network security sits near record highs even with price cut in half. And negative gamma cuts both ways: the identical hedging that accelerates a breakdown becomes fuel on the way up, because once price reclaims the level, those same dealers are forced to buy into strength.
A single catalyst, one strong inflow day, a legislative surprise, flips the machine from seller to buyer.
So the real quite practical picture is not a forecast of $45k, whatever the prediction markets imply. It is a coiled spring. Bitcoin sits on a shelf where three selling forces are stacked and reflexive, which makes a break lower fast and mechanical if it comes.
But it also sits where holders are exhausted and the same machinery reverses hard on the first real bid. The setup is binary and honest: violent if it breaks, explosive if it holds.
The one thing it is not is calm, and anyone trading it on the round number alone is watching one machine while two others move the price. Share your thoughts.
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Title: A Day in the Life: The "Forbidden City" Scroll That Feels Like a Movie
Step into the year 1550 and witness the most detailed "slice of life" ever painted. While most people think of Chinese art as quiet mountains and lonely poets, Qiu Ying’s masterpiece, Along the River During the Qingming Festival, throws you into the bustling chaos of a thriving metropolis.
Imagine a 22-foot-long panoramic film where the camera never stops rolling. You aren’t just looking at a painting; you are eavesdropping on the daily gossip of the Song Dynasty.
🔍 Look Closer: The Drama in the Details
As you scan the ink-washed streets, you’ll find a world vibrating with energy:
• The Hustle: Watch a team of laborers sweat as they haul heavy goods, while a grumpy official argues with a boatman over a tax dispute.
• The Street Food: See a cook fanning a fire under a wok, steam rising from freshly made buns that look almost edible. A street vendor shouts his prices to a crowd of hungry onlookers.
• The Commute: A privileged scholar rides a mule, looking thoroughly unimpressed by the peasants dodging his path. Meanwhile, a mother struggles to control her toddler on a bridge crowded with shoppers.
• The Crisis: Look at the bridge! A massive grain boat is losing control in the rapids, and the crowd leans over the railings, holding their breath as men rush to pull the ropes.
Qiu Ying didn't just paint buildings; he painted the noise, the smells, and the sheer human struggle of a city that looks surprisingly modern. It is a 400-year-old documentary captured in silk and ink.
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Citizen Vigilante (2026): A Flawed but Thought-Provoking Vigilante Thriller
Reviewed by Reader From Chicago
Uwe Boll’s Citizen Vigilante, starring Armie Hammer in a high-profile comeback role, is a low-budget action-thriller that arrived amid significant controversy and publicity. Most notably, the film was made available for free viewing on X (formerly Twitter) for a limited 48-hour window thanks to efforts by director Uwe Boll and amplified by Elon Musk’s platform. It was viewed by millions before the free stream ended on June 27, 2026. It can be rented or purchased on platforms like Prime Video, Apple TV, Fandango, and similar services.
The story follows Michael Sanders (Armie Hammer), an American businessman with business interests in Europe who becomes disillusioned with the failures of the justice system. He transforms into a vigilante, taking the law into his own hands against violent criminals — particularly those involved in brutal attacks on women and girls. His actions turn him into a social media sensation, complete with manifesto-style videos that spread his message far and wide. The film draws clear inspiration from classic vigilante movies such as the Death Wish series, but updates the premise to contemporary European settings (filmed in Croatia and evoking broader continental issues).
As a piece of filmmaking and art, Citizen Vigilante has clear faults. It often feels disjointed and nonlinear, with pacing that jumps around and some scenes that don’t fully cohere. There’s also a gratuitous sex scene that feels tacked on and unnecessary. Compared to the slicker, more focused Death Wish films starring Charles Bronson, this one lacks polish in direction, editing, and overall craft — typical of Boll’s exploitation-style approach.
That said, the movie offers some interesting ideas that go beyond simple vengeance. Hammer’s protagonist isn’t driven purely by personal revenge. He operates from something closer to a personal philosophy of citizenship — emphasizing personal responsibility, accountability, and the maintenance of a high-trust society. In one scene, he confronts a group of teens who boarded a bus without paying and calmly explains why they should pay their fare, framing it as a matter of civic duty rather than just enforcement. In another, at a nightclub, he intervenes to stop two women from being drugged by men they met, protecting the vulnerable in real time.
A particularly striking sequence involves Sanders visiting a woman in the hospital who was brutally beaten by migrants. He sits in a chair beside her bed, engaging her at eye level with empathy and presence. Later, when the Interpol chief (played by Costas Mandylor) visits the same victim, he stands towering above her throughout their conversation — a subtle visual contrast that highlights differing approaches to authority and care.
These moments give the film more texture than a pure revenge fantasy. Released around the same time as the UK grooming gang report, which exposed widespread institutional failures and the betrayal of vulnerable girls by authorities, Citizen Vigilante taps directly into real-world frustrations about crime, migration, shortcomings in the justice system, and the erosion of social trust.
In terms of financial success, concrete box office numbers remain limited as of late June 2026 due to its restricted theatrical rollout (it faced significant hurdles, including being left unrated in Germany).
Claims circulating online of massive grosses (approaching hundreds of millions on a very low budget) appear exaggerated or unverified by major trackers like Box Office Mojo or The Numbers.
However, the free X promotion generated enormous visibility and discussion, likely translating into strong video-on-demand interest and profitability through controversy and word-of-mouth rather than traditional theatrical dominance.
Citizen Vigilante is far from a perfect or polished film. Its flaws in execution are evident, and it will undoubtedly polarize viewers along ideological lines.
Yet it delivers bold, unapologetic ideas about citizenship, personal responsibility, and what happens when institutions fail — ideas that resonate in the current cultural moment. If you can look past its rough edges and occasional excesses, it’s a provocative watch that sparks conversation long after the credits roll.
Value mostly in being in total opposition to the current paradigm that treats regular folks as expendable sacrifices on the altar of “diversity.”
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I know this has been said many times before, when it comes to a road trip, you are faster in a Cybertruck not to charge too much but rather stop more often.
Another thing that is important while doing so, is to arrive with a low state of charge, so that you take advantage of the faster charging of Cybertruck.
Here an example from my last road trip back from Palm Desert, CA. As you can tell, in my live stream I talked about the navigation showing me 40 minutes of charging to get from Shawnee, OK to Van Buren, AR.
Instead of doing that, I opted to put another charging stop in-between, at Henryetta, OK.
That split the charging into 6min and 17min, total of 23 minutes.
I arrived in Van Buren, AR with 5% SOC, meaning I could have charged for only 15min instead of 17min.
You can see how that adds up over time and makes your trip shorter.
Sure, that is not something you would want to do if you just bought your first EV and/or your suffer from range anxiety.
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Good expert call on Bloom Energy $BE with a former VP at Plug Power - pretty bullish
Hyperscalers did not evaluate Bloom against gas turbines and select Bloom. They selected turbines, discovered they could not get them, and Bloom was the alternative that checked enough boxes.
Gas turbines from Mitsubishi, GE Vernova, Siemens and Hitachi remain the incumbent workhorse, but his read is that if the order is not already placed, you are not energizing before 2030. Reciprocating engines sit in the same position: Caterpillar, Jenbacher, Generac, Wärtsilä, all effectively sold out. Transformers, switchgear and substation equipment carry 60 month lead times.
What Bloom offered was availability plus modularity. A claimed 90 day time to power on smaller blocks, which he believes is credible at modest scale and unlikely at large scale, plus a build-as-you-go capital profile. Turbines want a single large plant. Behind-the-meter deployment wants building blocks you can add to as long as you have secured the land and the gas tap.
> Why the Turbine OEMs Will Not Simply Close the Window
Turbine and engine OEMs are deliberately not expanding capacity. They suspect the order book is double and triple booked, and they fear being left with stranded factory capacity when projects fail to reach FID. His analogy is the semiconductor capacity cycle, where consecutive quarters of poor absorption caused structural damage.
Their posture, as he characterizes the consensus from trade shows and industry conversation: you cannot buy it from me, you cannot buy it from my competitor, you will wait.
If that discipline holds, Bloom's window is measured in years rather than quarters, which is materially longer than the market appears to assume. Bloom's product is closer to a solid state electrochemical device than a precision machined turbine, drawing on an entirely separate supply chain that can be ramped faster.
> Levelized Cost: A Premium, But Not a Prohibitive One
He built his own LCOE model rather than relying on published work, which he found rested on unexamined assumptions. His output:
Gas turbine: roughly 4.5 to 7 cents per kWh
Bloom: just over 7 cents unsubsidized, below that with federal incentives
Reciprocating gas engine: roughly 8 to 10 cents
Diesel: high teens to mid 20s
The critical observation is that this is not a 3x premium for speed. That pattern collapses the moment supply normalizes, because buyers drop the expensive option as soon as the cheap one is obtainable. A single digit cent premium does not collapse, because the hyperscaler business case still clears at that price.
The offset to Bloom's higher capital cost is efficiency: 60 to 65 percent, against roughly 55 percent for a gas turbine and roughly 45 percent for a reciprocating engine. Bring capex down and the LCOE gap narrows or inverts.
> Where Bloom Ranks Today
Asked to stack rank for a hyperscaler buyer, he puts Bloom third, behind turbines and engines, purely on track record rather than physics. His analogy: you know exactly what you get from a Caterpillar engine or a GE Vernova turbine the way a Toyota buyer knows what he is getting. No buyer has that reflex for a Bloom box yet.
The open questions the buying community has not resolved: real world availability, whether maintenance cadence matches or beats turbine schedules, and the roughly 10 year stack replacement cycle. On that last point he offers a mild positive read-across, noting that in the PEM industry stack rebuild intervals came in longer than originally modeled.
The path to second or first place requires two things running together: two to four years of collective industry uptime data, and capex reduction. Oracle, Nebius, Brookfield and AEP are the proof points that will settle it. On whether they will work, he says "the jury is still out," while noting early evidence reads favorably.
> Non-Combustion as an Unpriced Permitting Asset
The Bloom box does not combust natural gas. It runs an electrochemical reaction. The consequences stack up in a specific and useful way:
NOx, SOx and particulate emissions at or very near zero, leaving local air quality unaffected
Roughly 65 dBA at three feet, which he compares to a lawnmower at fifty feet, meaning nearby highway noise dominates
Zero net water consumption, with startup water recycled as steam
Materially easier local permitting
Each of those neutralizes a specific community objection, and the pushback is accelerating. New York State's one year moratorium is the marker he points to, alongside complaints in other jurisdictions about power draw, water use and air quality.
His honest caveat: to date these attributes have played essentially zero role in purchase decisions. Availability and cost drove everything, and he assumes very little of Bloom's performance so far reflects environmental considerations.
If pushback becomes electoral, and he says he is watching whether candidates start running on it, then zero emission on-site generation stops being a nice-to-have and becomes the only permittable option across large parts of the country. He expects this to bite first at the 20, 50 and 100 MW sites going into actual neighborhoods rather than at the West Texas mega-campuses.
> Market Share Trajectory
Data center demand forecasts he is working from run 40 to 60 GW per year. Bloom's share today sits in single digits. His trajectory:
Five years: 15 to 18 percent
Ten years: 25 to 28 percent
Upside case, if emissions constraints become binding in enough jurisdictions: 40 to 50 percent
The constraint that drives the upside case is geographic. Not everyone can replicate what Microsoft and Chevron are doing on the West Texas gas fields. Once data centers have to disperse into places that care about permitting, the zero emissions conversation becomes unavoidable.
> The Bear Case He Actually Respects
Execution, not demand. He flags this above everything else.
Bloom has roughly 1.5 GW deployed against a backlog he characterizes as roughly 20 GW. On Sridhar's own description of the factories, that a visitor will see build activity and factory expansion activity running simultaneously, the expert's reaction is blunt. To an industrial engineer, expanding while still trying to build is a very risky proposition. Doable, but it is the precise point at which fast-scaling companies break, and he notes this is the classic failure mode for startups that find themselves in this position.
Q1 was clean. The Q2 print, due around the 28th, is the next checkpoint on whether execution is holding.
The secondary risks are demand-side and none of Bloom's own making: hyperscale capex circularity, bubble risk, and whether community pushback genuinely slows the build or simply reroutes it to Texas.
> Scandium: Directionally Fair, Materially Overblown
On the short thesis that Bloom cannot secure enough scandium, he says the report has some points but overstates them. His rebuttal runs on three tracks.
Cost sensitivity. Scandium is a dopant in the zirconium ceramic electrolyte, used at very low concentration, valued because it tolerates the 800 to 900 degree operating temperature. Even if it were 2 percent of materials cost, which he considers extraordinarily high for a dopant, a doubling in price takes it to 4 percent. Bloom likely has the pricing power to pass that through, and a half point efficiency gain would offset it in LCOE terms. His conclusion: more price risk than supply risk over the next couple of years.
Supply structure. Scandium is almost never mined primarily. It sits in the tailings of titanium, cobalt, aluminum, iron and lithium operations and is generally left behind. The binding constraint is processing capability, not geological availability, and that processing capacity is being built with national security tailwinds behind it. Scandium-aluminum alloys matter for 3D printing, fighter aircraft skins and missiles, which places it squarely in the critical minerals policy agenda.
Company mitigations. Bloom has spent 20 years reducing scandium loading per gigawatt. He located a patent application substituting cerium and yttrium, both more available, and Bloom holds IP on recovering scandium from mine tailings. He reads Bloom's willingness to address the topic directly, rather than deflect, as evidence they take it seriously rather than evidence of vulnerability. Non-Chinese supply exists: he points to Sumitomo's Philippines cobalt operation, which publicly identifies Bloom as a customer. Bloom does not disclose suppliers, and the short report's supply map traces its merchants back toward China.
> The Competitive Set
FuelCell Energy. Molten carbonate rather than solid oxide, but functionally similar: high temperature, slow start, direct natural gas, suited to stationary baseload. Why they never scaled into this comes down to inertia and strategic drift. Their historical focus was a trigeneration box producing hydrogen, power and heat, deployed for applications like Toyota Mirai fueling at the Port of LA. When hyperscale demand arrived they had nothing to show. His read on the pivot: they saw the multiple Bloom trades at and asked why not us.
Ceres Power. UK based, probably second globally in solid oxide IP. Pure licensing model, which means most licensees stay invisible. The disclosed one is Weichai, moving from small C&I units up to hyperscale scale. He doubts Weichai exports into the US successfully but expects success in China.
Microturbines and aeroderivatives. TurboCell in the BorgWarner orbit, plus aero engine derivatives repurposed as stationary generators. Everything gets a look right now because buyers are desperate for speed to power.
Stealth entrants. He assumes several exist that have not been announced, precisely because Ceres-style licensing deals do not get publicized.
Asked whether Bloom owns the US market today, his answer: "Pretty much now they do."
> Why Hydrogen Never Worked, and the Read-Through to Plug
Useful because he lived it from the inside. Delivered liquid hydrogen bottoms out near $8 per kilogram. Run that through the efficiency stack and fuel cost alone lands around 54 cents per kWh, before equipment, labor, warranty or service. He stopped modeling at that point. Even at a hypothetical $4 per kilogram you land near 25 cents, still a non-starter against a 7 cent Bloom box.
Plug built a 3 MW unit at its Latham campus that passed Microsoft's full backup generator protocol, the first non-diesel, non-gas system ever to do so. Microsoft publicized it as a breakthrough and then walked away inside six months once the cost picture clarified. Plug's INVISTA facility was outfitted to build stationary modules for the data center market and effectively none of it shipped. Three sites total, including Calistoga in PG&E territory for public safety shutoff backup, and an EV charging site that existed only because a grid connection was unavailable. Both are showpieces that draw tours. Neither is repeatable.
source: Tegus
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