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Hermes Agent Telemetry in Beacon

Beacon supports Hermes Agent as a first-class hook harness with managed shell hooks.

June 5, 2026

What is Hermes Agent?

Hermes support added prompt, observed tool, command, file, approval, session lifecycle, and subagent stop telemetry.

Collection path: Shell hooks

Authoritative date: June 5, 2026 from v0.0.40 in the Beacon CLI changelog.

How Beacon reads Hermes Agent

Beacon installs shell hooks in user-level Hermes config, preserves existing settings and non-Beacon hooks, and documents first-use hook consent options for non-interactive runs.

The result is normalized into Beacon's endpoint event schema so security teams can investigate activity by harness, repository, session, user, model, command, file, tool, MCP server, or approval context where the runtime exposes those fields.

Telemetry coverage

  • Prompts and observed tool calls
  • Command and file telemetry
  • Approval request and response events
  • Session lifecycle and subagent stop metadata

What you can do now

  • Install Hermes telemetry with beacon endpoint hooks.
  • Review approval request and response activity from Hermes sessions.
  • Preserve non-Beacon Hermes hooks during rollout.

Get started

  1. Run beacon endpoint hooks install --harness hermes.
  2. Review first-use hook consent behavior in the runtime docs.
  3. Verify Hermes events in the local dashboard.

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