Hermes Agent Challenge Submission: Write About Hermes Agent

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge.

My Hermes research agent was failing after about 40 turns. The cause: conversation history growing past the context window. The fix everyone reaches for is "just drop old messages" — but if you drop a tool_use without its matching tool_result, Anthropic's API rejects the whole request.

I needed something smarter. That's agent-message-trim.

One call