diff --git a/bin/omarchy-install-hermes-cli b/bin/omarchy-install-hermes-cli
index bdd0daab..7ae9410a 100755
--- a/bin/omarchy-install-hermes-cli
+++ b/bin/omarchy-install-hermes-cli
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 # omarchy:summary=Install the Hermes CLI as a mise-backed wrapper in ~/.local/bin
-# omarchy:args=[--check|--now|--owns]
+# omarchy:args=[--check|--now|--owns|--remove]
 # omarchy:examples=omarchy install hermes cli | omarchy install hermes cli --now
 
 # Hermes pins every one of its dependencies exactly and declares
@@ -112,6 +112,25 @@ if [[ $mode == "--owns" ]]; then
   if ours; then exit 0; else exit 1; fi
 fi
 
+# --remove tears down a Hermes CLI this installer put in place -- the mise tool
+# it installs and the stub it marks -- so Remove Hermes clears a CLI the app
+# never superseded (an interrupted install, or the terminal CLI from before the
+# app existed) rather than leaving it stranded on PATH. Scoped to what is ours:
+# the tool spec is this installer's, and the stub goes only when it carries the
+# marker, so a Hermes the user installed themselves is untouched. Idempotent --
+# nothing installed means nothing to do -- and it is the same teardown the
+# desktop takeover above performs, kept in one place so the two cannot drift.
+if [[ $mode == "--remove" ]]; then
+  mise rm -g "$tool" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+  mise uninstall --all "$tool" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+
+  if ours; then
+    rm -f "$HOME/.local/bin/hermes"
+  fi
+
+  exit 0
+fi
+
 # --check lets callers tell a cold stub from a working one before they commit
 # to a path that assumes Hermes is ready.
 if [[ $mode == "--check" ]]; then
diff --git a/bin/omarchy-remove-ai-hermes b/bin/omarchy-remove-ai-hermes
index f67b1d6d..f332dc4b 100755
--- a/bin/omarchy-remove-ai-hermes
+++ b/bin/omarchy-remove-ai-hermes
@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@ set -euo pipefail
 
 omarchy-pkg-drop hermes-desktop
 
+# The mise CLI is the app's predecessor, not the app itself: Hermes Desktop takes
+# it over on install and runs its own runtime instead, so a copy still here is one
+# the app never superseded -- an interrupted install, or the terminal CLI from
+# before the app existed. Remove Hermes clears that too, scoped by the installer
+# to what Omarchy owns so a hermes the user set up themselves is left alone.
+omarchy-install-hermes-cli --remove
+
 # The app writes this when the runtime it provisions under ~/.hermes has landed,
 # and it is the only thing that tells that runtime apart from one the user
 # installed themselves -- the paths are the same either way. Without it the app
diff --git a/test/shell.d/hermes-cli-test.sh b/test/shell.d/hermes-cli-test.sh
index fa5c1db9..a70589ef 100755
--- a/test/shell.d/hermes-cli-test.sh
+++ b/test/shell.d/hermes-cli-test.sh
@@ -402,6 +402,45 @@ marker_copies=$(grep -rl "Written by omarchy-install-hermes-cli" \
   fail "only omarchy-install-hermes-cli spells out the ownership marker"
 pass "the ownership marker is written down once"
 
+# --remove tears down a Hermes CLI this installer owns, so Remove Hermes can
+# clear one the desktop app never superseded. It turns on the same ownership as
+# the rest of the file, so its cases mirror that split.
+remove_home="$test_tmp/remove-home"
+mkdir -p "$remove_home/.local/bin"
+
+run_remove() {
+  OMARCHY_TEST_DESKTOP_INSTALLED=0 \
+    OMARCHY_TEST_MISE_WHERE_OK="${OMARCHY_TEST_MISE_WHERE_OK:-0}" \
+    OMARCHY_TEST_MISE_ROOT="$test_tmp/mise" \
+    OMARCHY_TEST_MISE_LOG="$mise_log" \
+    HOME="$remove_home" \
+    PATH="$mock_bin:$PATH" \
+    bash "$ROOT/bin/omarchy-install-hermes-cli" --remove
+}
+
+rm -f "$remove_home/.local/bin/hermes"
+: >"$mise_log"
+run_remove || fail "--remove succeeds when there is nothing to remove"
+pass "--remove is idempotent when no Hermes CLI is present"
+
+printf '%s\n' "#!/bin/bash" "$stub_marker" >"$remove_home/.local/bin/hermes"
+chmod +x "$remove_home/.local/bin/hermes"
+: >"$mise_log"
+OMARCHY_TEST_MISE_WHERE_OK=1 run_remove || fail "--remove succeeds tearing down an owned CLI"
+tr '\0' '\n' <"$mise_log" | grep -q '^rm$' || fail "--remove drops the mise tool from config"
+tr '\0' '\n' <"$mise_log" | grep -q '^uninstall$' || fail "--remove uninstalls the mise tool"
+[[ ! -e $remove_home/.local/bin/hermes ]] || fail "--remove takes the stub it owns"
+pass "--remove tears down the mise CLI and the stub this installer owns"
+
+foreign_remove_body="#!/bin/bash
+exec /usr/local/bin/my-own-hermes \"\$@\""
+printf '%s\n' "$foreign_remove_body" >"$remove_home/.local/bin/hermes"
+chmod +x "$remove_home/.local/bin/hermes"
+run_remove || fail "--remove succeeds with a foreign hermes present"
+[[ -f $remove_home/.local/bin/hermes && $(cat "$remove_home/.local/bin/hermes") == "$foreign_remove_body" ]] ||
+  fail "--remove leaves a hermes it does not own untouched"
+pass "--remove leaves a Hermes the user installed themselves"
+
 # The app's marker says its install once landed, not that it is still there. A
 # wrapper whose runtime has since gone answers for nothing, so readiness runs
 # the command, exactly as it does for a hermes the user installed themselves.
diff --git a/test/shell.d/hermes-remove-test.sh b/test/shell.d/hermes-remove-test.sh
index bc80859f..c590f0d3 100755
--- a/test/shell.d/hermes-remove-test.sh
+++ b/test/shell.d/hermes-remove-test.sh
@@ -15,6 +15,14 @@ cat >"$mock_bin/omarchy-pkg-drop" <<'SH'
 #!/bin/bash
 printf '%s\0' "$@" >>"$OMARCHY_TEST_DROP_LOG"
 SH
+
+# The CLI teardown is the installer's own, exercised in hermes-cli-test.sh; here
+# it is mocked to a logger so this test stays about what Remove Hermes does with
+# ~/.hermes, and to keep real mise out of a run with HOME pointed at a fixture.
+cat >"$mock_bin/omarchy-install-hermes-cli" <<'SH'
+#!/bin/bash
+printf '%s\0' "$@" >>"$OMARCHY_TEST_INSTALLER_LOG"
+SH
 chmod +x "$mock_bin"/*
 
 seed_install() {
@@ -35,7 +43,10 @@ seed_install() {
 }
 
 remove() {
-  OMARCHY_TEST_DROP_LOG="$test_tmp/drop-log" HOME="$test_home" PATH="$mock_bin:$PATH" \
+  : >"$test_tmp/installer-log"
+  OMARCHY_TEST_DROP_LOG="$test_tmp/drop-log" \
+    OMARCHY_TEST_INSTALLER_LOG="$test_tmp/installer-log" \
+    HOME="$test_home" PATH="$mock_bin:$PATH" \
     bash "$ROOT/bin/omarchy-remove-ai-hermes" >/dev/null 2>&1
 }
 
@@ -67,6 +78,12 @@ pass "removal keeps what belongs to the user"
 [[ ! -e $test_home/.local/bin/hermes ]] || fail "the app's own hermes command is removed"
 pass "removal takes the command the app installed"
 
+# Removal also asks the installer to tear down a mise CLI the app superseded, so
+# a copy left from before the app took over does not linger once Hermes is gone.
+tr '\0' '\n' <"$test_tmp/installer-log" | grep -qx -- '--remove' ||
+  fail "removal asks the installer to tear down its own CLI"
+pass "removal tears down the mise CLI through the installer"
+
 # A hermes command the app did not write survives even when the app did install
 # a runtime of its own.
 seed_install