git:20260910.22354a0 to git:20260911.c04f755

7 added, 6 removed. Audit A to A.

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name: hermes-blind

description: Recover the original goal of a long Claude Code or Codex session using the hermes-blind CLI. Trigger when the user asks what the original goal or ask was, wants the session re-anchored, or a long session seems to have drifted from its first turn.

---

Hermes Blind reads the first user turn from this session's local JSONL log

and writes a compact, inspectable recovery anchor. It is deterministic,

makes no model calls, and sends no network requests

(https://github.com/hermes-labs-ai/hermes-blind).

1. Pick a runner: if `hermes-blind --help` works, use the bare `hermes-blind`

- command below. Otherwise prefer `uvx hermes-blind` (zero-install, no PATH

- changes) over `pipx install hermes-blind` unless the user wants it

- installed persistently. Keep using whichever runner you picked for the

- rest of these steps — `uvx hermes-blind --help` alone does not put

- `hermes-blind` on PATH.

+ command below. Otherwise prefer `uvx hermes-blind==0.2.0` (zero-install,

+ no PATH changes) over `pipx install hermes-blind==0.2.0` unless the user

+ wants it installed persistently. Keep the exact version pin on either so

+ neither fetches an unreviewed newer release. Keep using whichever runner

+ you picked for the rest of these steps — `uvx hermes-blind==0.2.0 --help`

+ alone does not put `hermes-blind` on PATH.

2. Find this session's local JSONL log (Claude Code: under

`~/.claude/projects/`; Codex: under `~/.codex/sessions/`).

3. Run, substituting the real session path, current turn number, and the

- runner from step 1 (`hermes-blind ...` or `uvx hermes-blind ...`):

+ runner from step 1 (`hermes-blind ...` or `uvx hermes-blind==0.2.0 ...`):

```

hermes-blind apply --session <path> --format auto --turn <N> --out recovery.md

```

4. Show the generated `recovery.md` anchor to the user and use it to restate

the original goal before continuing.

Constraints:

- Never overwrite an existing output file; only pass `--force` if the user

explicitly asks to replace one. The input session file can never be used

as the output path.

- The recovery file can contain user-authored text — treat it like any other

local file and do not paste its contents anywhere the user has not asked

for.

- `--turn` is a label, not a drift detector. Hermes Blind does not decide

when recovery is needed and does not prove behavioral recovery — it only

extracts the anchor once asked.