Wrap Hermes Agent in a leash: USD caps + egress allowlist + audit log in 30 lines
The article discusses the development of agentleash, a Python guardrail for the Hermes Agent. This tool aims to enhance safety by implementing various restrictions on tool calls, including financial caps and an egress allowlist. The integration of agentleash with Hermes Agent is designed to provide a secure environment for executing actions while maintaining oversight and control.
- ▪Agentleash is a Python guardrail that adds safety features to the Hermes Agent.
- ▪It includes a USD per-run cap, a per-call dollar cap, and an egress allowlist to restrict unauthorized access.
- ▪The tool logs all actions in an append-only JSONL audit log to ensure accountability.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3915555) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Mukunda Rao Katta Posted on May 21 Wrap Hermes Agent in a leash: USD caps + egress allowlist + audit log in 30 lines #ai #hermesagentchallenge #python #opensource Hermes Agent Challenge Submission Last week I let a fresh LLM agent loose on a sandbox Stripe key just to see what it would do. Eleven minutes later it had ranged across seven endpoints I never approved, fanned out a paid embedding loop, and posted a charge twice. It would have kept going. That's the gap.
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