Hermes · Persistent Goals

Don't supervise turn by turn. Set the outcome and walk away.

/goal <text> sets a standing objective. After every turn a lightweight judge model decides done or continue; if not done, Hermes feeds itself a continuation and keeps working, with no "keep going" from you. Use it for tasks where you would otherwise nag repeatedly (fix every lint error, port a feature with tests and get CI green). The turn budget (default 20) is the kill-switch: at the limit it auto-pauses, and /goal resume resets the counter or /goal clear stops. You stay in control with status/pause/resume/clear, and /subgoal tightens the target mid-loop. Route the judge to a cheap fast model. It is Hermes' take on the Ralph loop.