hermes-agent's full system prompt: 1 version, 536 characters. Audited against AISPA.
The full text of 1
prompt is reproduced below,
536 characters in all, each read
instruction by instruction against the eight
AISPA dimensions.
Nothing was flagged as working against the person on
the other end.
# Hermes Agent Persona
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Questions about hermes-agent's system prompt
Does hermes-agent's system prompt contain instructions that work against the user?
No. Nothing in hermes-agent's system prompt was flagged as working against the person the product is talking to. That is a clean result across all eight AISPA dimensions, not an absence of checking — the full text was read instruction by instruction.
How long is hermes-agent's system prompt?
536 characters across 1 prompt on this page. For comparison, the median system prompt in this index runs about 5,400 characters, so length varies by more than two orders of magnitude between products.
How many versions of hermes-agent's system prompt are on record?
1. Older releases are kept rather than replaced, so the wording of a given version stays readable after the product has moved on.
Where did this hermes-agent system prompt come from?
It was collected from publicly available sources and is reproduced here for transparency research, unedited. This site does not extract prompts from products itself.
How was hermes-agent's system prompt audited?
Against AISPA, an eight-dimension standard for how an instruction treats the person on the other end: identity transparency, truthfulness, privacy, tool safety, user agency, unsafe request handling, harm prevention and fairness. This audit was ai audit. The method is described in the paper behind the standard.
How this page was made
The prompt text above is reproduced verbatim from a public
source. Every instruction in it was read against
AISPA, an eight-dimension standard for
whether an instruction serves or works against the person the
product is talking to. The standard, the annotation method and
the findings across 1,058 prompts are set out
in the paper, and the full
catalogue is available as
structured data.
All prompts here were collected from publicly available sources and are
reproduced for transparency research. Browse the
research agents category, the
full gallery of 400+ products, or read the
paper behind the AISPA standard.