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>
