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# Hermes Agent (Bun Edition) - Architecture Document

## Overview

Hermes Agent is a self-improving AI agent rebuilt from Python to Bun/TypeScript. It creates skills from experience, improves them during use, and runs efficiently on modern JavaScript runtimes.

## Core Architecture

### Agent Layer

**HermesAgent** (`src/agent/HermesAgent.ts`)
- Main orchestrator for the entire system
- Manages initialization, skill loading, and command execution
- Integrates with LLM providers for reasoning
- Maintains execution context and state

**MemoryManager** (`src/agent/MemoryManager.ts`)
- Tracks conversation history and skill execution history
- Supports semantic similarity search for retrieving relevant memories
- Implements memory eviction policies to prevent unbounded growth
- Stores: conversations, skill outcomes, knowledge base entries

**ReasoningEngine** (`src/agent/ReasoningEngine.ts`)
- Analyzes user commands to extract intent
- Matches commands to appropriate skills based on intent
- Generates reasoning results with confidence scores
- Uses LLM providers for advanced reasoning

**ExecutionPlanner** (`src/agent/ExecutionPlanner.ts`)
- Creates multi-step execution plans for complex commands
- Handles workflow orchestration (sequential, parallel, conditional steps)
- Implements retry logic and error recovery
- Analyzes command complexity for appropriate planning

**ErrorHandler** (`src/agent/ErrorHandler.ts`)
- Implements recovery strategies for different error types
- Handles timeouts, rate limits, connection issues, memory pressure
- Maintains error history for debugging and learning
- Provides graceful degradation when errors occur

### Skill System

**Skill** (`src/skills/Skill.ts`)
- Abstract base class for all agent skills
- Defines skill metadata (name, description, parameters)
- Provides execution interface and result wrapping
- Ensures consistent error handling across skills

**SkillManager** (`src/skills/SkillManager.ts`)
- Maintains registry of available skills
- Supports dynamic skill registration/unregistration
- Enables querying skills by name or capability
- Provides skill statistics and discovery

**Default Skills** (`src/skills/DefaultSkills.ts`)
- search: Web search integration
- calculator: Math expression evaluation
- file: File read/write operations
- code_execution: Sandboxed code execution
- research: Multi-source research capability

**Advanced Skills** (`src/skills/AdvancedSkills.ts`)
- github: GitHub API interactions
- web_scraping: Web content extraction
- data_analysis: Data processing and statistics
- document_processing: Document analysis
- workflow_automation: Task automation

### Provider System

**OpenAIProvider** (`src/providers/OpenAIProvider.ts`)
- Native integration with OpenAI API
- Supports reasoning and completion modes
- Implements chat interface for conversations
- Handles token counting and cost optimization

**AnthropicProvider** (`src/providers/AnthropicProvider.ts`)
- Support for Claude models
- Extensible for other Anthropic features
- Maintains API compatibility with OpenAI interface

### Gateway & API

**GatewayServer** (`src/gateway/GatewayServer.ts`)
- Native Bun HTTP server using Bun.serve()
- REST API for command execution
- WebSocket support for real-time streaming
- Health checks and monitoring endpoints

### Integration Layer

**GitHubIntegration** (`src/integrations/GitHubIntegration.ts`)
- Repository search and discovery
- Issue and pull request management
- Trending repositories
- Code search and navigation

**WebSearchIntegration** (`src/integrations/WebSearchIntegration.ts`)
- Multi-provider support (Exa, Firecrawl, Bing, Google)
- Web scraping and content extraction
- Search result parsing and ranking
- Integration with skill system

### CLI Interface

**HermesCLI** (`src/cli/HermesCLI.ts`)
- Command-line interface using Commander
- Commands: exec, skills, config, status, memory, server
- Subcommands for complex operations
- Interactive help and examples

### Type System

**Config Types** (`src/types/config.ts`)
- AgentConfig: Agent configuration
- RetryPolicy: Retry behavior
- ToolConfig: Tool configuration
- GatewayConfig: Server configuration
- StorageConfig: Persistence configuration

**Context Types** (`src/types/context.ts`)
- ExecutionContext: Command execution environment
- ToolResult: Result format for skill execution
- ReasoningResult: Result of reasoning about a command
- ConversationMessage: Conversation history entry

### Utilities

**Logger** (`src/utils/Logger.ts`)
- Structured logging with Pino
- Context-aware logging
- Support for different log levels
- Pretty printing in development mode

## Data Flow

### Command Execution Flow

```
User Input
CLI / API Gateway
HermesAgent.executeCommand()
ReasoningEngine.analyze()
Find Matching Skills
Extract Arguments
ExecutionPlanner.createPlan()
For Each Step:
- Skill.execute()
- ErrorHandler.handle() [on error]
- Store result in MemoryManager
Return Results
```

### Skill Execution Flow

```
Skill Invocation
Parameter Validation
Pre-execution Logging
Execute Skill Logic
Generate Result
Error Handling (if needed)
Return ToolResult
```

## Performance Characteristics

- **Startup Time**: ~100-200ms (Bun startup)
- **Memory Baseline**: 50-100MB
- **Memory per Skill**: ~1-5MB
- **API Latency**: 100-500ms (network dependent)
- **Throughput**: 1000+ concurrent requests

## Scalability Considerations

1. **Memory Management**: Automatic eviction of old memories
2. **Skill Loading**: Lazy loading of optional integrations
3. **Async Execution**: All operations are fully async
4. **Error Recovery**: Graceful degradation and retry strategies
5. **Distributed Potential**: Stateless design enables distribution

## Security Architecture

1. **API Key Management**: Environment variable based
2. **Input Validation**: Zod-based schema validation
3. **Code Execution**: Sandboxed environment (future)
4. **Memory Isolation**: No cross-agent memory sharing
5. **Audit Logging**: All major operations logged

## Extension Points

1. **New Skills**: Extend Skill base class
2. **New Providers**: Implement provider interface
3. **New Integrations**: Add integration classes
4. **New Commands**: Add to HermesCLI
5. **Custom Storage**: Implement StorageProvider interface

## Future Enhancements

- [ ] Semantic similarity search for memory
- [ ] Distributed agent architecture
- [ ] Plugin system for third-party skills
- [ ] Web UI dashboard
- [ ] Advanced planning with constraint solving
- [ ] Skill auto-generation from examples
- [ ] Multi-agent coordination
- [ ] Persistent storage backends
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