How-To Series · 7: Power Tools

Deliverable Mode

Ship generated charts, PDFs, and spreadsheets as native attachments in chat.

After this videoYour agent hands back finished files in the chat instead of paths you have to fetch

Deliverable Mode lets Hermes deliver generated files as native attachments inside messaging gateways. The agent renders a file to an absolute path and mentions that path as plain text. The gateway extracts the path, removes it from the message, and uploads the file, dispatched by type. Paths inside code blocks are ignored. The agent does not produce artifacts by default, so nudge it per session or project-wide. Kanban workers can attach artifacts to their kanban_complete call.

About these resources. This episode explains how Deliverable Mode works in Hermes. The Sources block names the Hermes docs page that backs every claim.

Sources · What this video distills

1 docs page · every command below traces to one of them

Primary guide

Deliverable Mode (Artifacts in Chat)

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Attach artifacts to a kanban completionfrom source ↗

kanban_complete(
  summary="rendered Q3 revenue chart and report",
  artifacts=["/tmp/q3-revenue.png", "/tmp/q3-report.pdf"],
)

Bias toward artifacts via a named personality presetfrom source ↗

agent:
  personalities:
    artifacts: "Prefer charts, CSVs, and PDFs on messaging platforms."

Going deeper · Related Hermes docs

further reading · not sources of facts shown above

MCP integration

Connect more services like Notion, GitHub, and Drive.

Kanban workflow

Multi-agent task lanes whose completions carry artifacts.

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