
The File Changed. The Agent Didn’t: Inside Hermes Prompt Assembly
Hermes Agent Architecture, Part 2: a reproducible teardown of context files, prompt snapshots, and compression.
The Agent Stack is a technical deep dive into how modern AI agents actually work under the hood, from control loops and memory systems to orchestration, evaluation, and production deployment.
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Hermes Agent Architecture, Part 2: a reproducible teardown of context files, prompt snapshots, and compression.

How one message becomes a stateful run across CLI, chat, and remote execution

Why a data agent is only useful if you can prove where the answer came from

Why data agents inherit every governance problem you already had

Why fewer tools beat more tools

Why schemas describe shape, but pipeline code explains meaning

Why the hard part is not the model call, it’s what you put in front of it

Why no agent architecture can save messy data

Why a data agent is not just text-to-SQL

Why demos are stories, but production needs evidence