hermes-relay
Copilot instructions432 starsChanged 4 months agoMITView on GitHub
This file exists so GitHub Copilot (which reads .github/copilot-instructions.md, not AGENTS.md) picks up the project's agent guidance. Read AGENTS.md first — it is the single source of truth for agent guidance: the entry point, the non-negotiables, and the public-repo writing hygiene. CLAUDE.md imports that same canonical file. Follow AGENTS.md and its linked project records; don't restate them here. Quick non-negotiables (the full list and rationale are in AGENTS.md): - Standard path = vanilla upstream only. The default no-plugin connection must…
Where files are headingNew Copilot instructions files have more rules about branches and pull requests, and fewer about code style.
Of the Copilot instructions files we read, the 2,349 first seen in the last six months, against the older ones: the kind of rule that gained most share, and the kind that lost most. About files like this in general, not this one, and an estimate, since a kind is a pattern in the words.
In this repository11 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- website/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- relay-serverSkill
- androidSkill
- hermes-relay-desktop-setupSkill
- hermes-relay-doctorSkill
- hermes-relay-pairSkill
- hermes-relay-self-setupSkill
- hermes-relay-statusSkill
- translate-android-localeSkill
The file
We split this copilot-instructions.md into the rules it gives an agent
1 rule. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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Public repo: no personal names, no private infrastructure, no AI/assistant self-narration in committed prose.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 3,779 Copilot instructions files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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GitHub Copilot instructions — Hermes-Relay
This file exists so GitHub Copilot (which reads .github/copilot-instructions.md,
not AGENTS.md) picks up the project's agent guidance.
Read AGENTS.md first — it is the single source of truth
for agent guidance: the entry point, the non-negotiables, and the public-repo
writing hygiene. CLAUDE.md imports that same canonical file. Follow
AGENTS.md and its linked project records; don't restate them here.
Quick non-negotiables (the full list and rationale are in AGENTS.md):
- Standard path = vanilla upstream only. The default no-plugin connection must work against unmodified upstream hermes-agent; server-side needs go through upstream PRs or the optional relay plugin, never fork patches.
- Conventional Commits,
main/devbranching — feature branches offdev,--no-ffmerges, tags cut frommain. - Android: Jetpack Compose (no XML), kotlinx.serialization (no Gson),
OkHttp (no Ktor),
wss://only. Narrow local checks use the Android lane; pushed exact SHAs preferAndroid On-Demandfor heavy verification; full local pre-push remains an explicit fallback. - Public repo: no personal names, no private infrastructure, no AI/assistant self-narration in committed prose.
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