Trusting a project
Skills are procedure documents the agent follows, so Hermes does not auto-load them from arbitrary cloned repos. The first time you run Hermes in a repo with project skills, the banner shows a notice: Trust the repo once (from inside it, or by passing the path): Trusted roots are stored in skills.trusted_project_dirs in ~/.hermes/config.yaml . Set skills.project_discovery: false to turn the feature off entirely (no scanning, no notices).
From the official Hermes Agent documentation.
◆ 3 project skill(s) found in /home/you/myproject but not loaded — run `hermes skills trust` to enable them.