I replaced 200 lines of ad-hoc state management in my Hermes agent with one object.

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge.

My Hermes research agent was tracking state across 20+ variables. Turn counter. Running cost. Message history. Sub-tasks done. Sub-tasks pending. Errors per tool. Each was a standalone variable at the top of the loop, updated individually, saved separately, and restored manually after a crash.

By turn 47, the state management was 200 lines of ad-hoc code spread across the loop. I replaced it with one object.

One object for all agent state

from agent_state_bag import StateBag