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ba78e7df09 Leave a Hermes the app never installed alone
Remove > AI > Hermes deleted ~/.hermes/hermes-agent, bootstrap-cache, bin and
node unconditionally, plus any wrapper on PATH pointing into ~/.hermes. The
official Hermes installer uses those same paths, so a user who installed the
CLI themselves, then installed the app and never launched it, lost their
checkout, venv and any local changes -- while being told their chats, memories
and skills were safe.

The app provisions its runtime on first launch and writes
.hermes-bootstrap-complete when it lands. Without that marker the app never got
that far and everything under ~/.hermes predates it, so dropping the package is
the whole job.

Two smaller things in the same path. The wrapper test matched ~/.hermes as a
pattern, and the dot made it claim a wrapper pointing at a sibling like
~/xhermes; it is a plain string now, and a symlink there is the user's
arrangement rather than something to delete. And -u, so an unset HOME is an
error instead of a set of rm -rf paths rooted at /.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Codex XHigh <noreply@openai.com>
2026-08-27 11:44:39 +02:00

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#!/bin/bash
# omarchy:summary=Remove the Hermes desktop app along with the Hermes runtime it installed.
# omarchy:requires-sudo=true
# -u so an unset HOME is an error rather than a set of rm -rf paths rooted at /.
set -euo pipefail
omarchy-pkg-drop hermes-desktop
# 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
# never got that far: a machine where it was installed but never launched still
# has whatever was there before, and none of it is ours to delete.
if [[ -f $HOME/.hermes/hermes-agent/.hermes-bootstrap-complete ]]; then
# The checkout and venv, its own uv, its own node. None of it is any use once
# the app is gone. Not ~/.config/Hermes, which holds the gateway connections
# and their encrypted tokens, the active profile and the update settings. Not
# the rest of ~/.hermes either: the chats, memories and the skills Hermes
# wrote for itself are the user's, they are small, and finding them still
# there after a reinstall is the better surprise.
rm -rf \
"$HOME/.hermes/hermes-agent" \
"$HOME/.hermes/bootstrap-cache" \
"$HOME/.hermes/bin" \
"$HOME/.hermes/node"
# Only the wrappers pointing into ~/.hermes, matched as a plain string: the
# path carries a dot, so an unanchored pattern would also claim a wrapper
# pointing at a sibling like ~/xhermes.
for command in hermes hermes-agent hermes-acp; do
wrapper="$HOME/.local/bin/$command"
if [[ -f $wrapper && ! -L $wrapper ]] && grep -qF "$HOME/.hermes" "$wrapper"; then
rm -f "$wrapper"
fi
done
# When Hermes brought its own Node it symlinked these next to its own commands,
# and they point at what we just deleted. Only the links into ~/.hermes: a
# system Node, or someone else's, lives somewhere else entirely.
for command in node npm npx; do
link="$HOME/.local/bin/$command"
if [[ -L $link && $(readlink "$link") == "$HOME/.hermes"/* ]]; then
rm -f "$link"
fi
done
echo ""
echo "Hermes Desktop has been removed."
echo "Your chats, memories, and skills are still in ~/.hermes,"
echo "and your connections and settings in ~/.config/Hermes."
else
echo ""
echo "Hermes Desktop has been removed."
echo "It never finished installing its own Hermes, so nothing in ~/.hermes was touched."
fi