Hermes Agent Challenge Submission: Write About Hermes Agent

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge.

I ran a Hermes research agent across 50 literature review tasks and forgot to check the bill until the next morning. Three dollars gone. The agent had retried a bunch of failed web searches and each retry cost money.

The fix is obvious in hindsight: track cost as you go and stop when you hit the limit. That's agent-cost-guard.

Raise when the limit hits