hermes-full-layer

Recipe card from the charly-hermes plugin (Images — the deployable catalog).

Candy: hermes-full

Metalayer composing Hermes AI agent with a complete tool suite for standalone deployment. No browser included — use with selkies-desktop via cross-container env_provide: BROWSER_CDP_URL for shared browser automation.

Composition

# the hermes-full metalayer is a candy entity; composition is an inline candy: list in the body
hermes-full:
  candy:
    version: 2026.156.1921   # mandatory CalVer
    candy:                   # the candies it pulls in
      - hermes          # AI agent with browser tools, MCP, LLM auto-config
      - claude-code     # Anthropic Claude Code CLI
      - codex           # OpenAI Codex CLI
      - gemini          # Google Gemini CLI
      - dev-tools       # bat, ripgrep, neovim, gh, direnv, fd-find, htop, etc.
      - devops-tools    # AWS CLI, Scaleway, kubectx, OpenTofu, wrangler, jq, rsync
      - charly              # OpenCharly CLI for in-container management
      - tmux            # Terminal multiplexer for persistent sessions

Browser Integration

The hermes candy declares env_accept: BROWSER_CDP_URL. When deployed alongside a selkies-desktop container, the chrome candy’s env_provide injects BROWSER_CDP_URL=http://charly-selkies-desktop:9222 into the hermes quadlet via charly config --update-all. Hermes browser tools (browser_navigate, browser_click, browser_snapshot) then control the desktop Chrome across the container network.

Without a browser provider, hermes browser tools fall back to local headless mode (requires hermes-playwright candy) or are unavailable.

Usage

charly.yml

hermes:
  candy:
    base: fedora
    candy:
      - agent-forwarding
      - hermes-full
      - dbus

Related Candies

• /charly-hermes:hermes — Core Hermes agent (LLM providers, MCP, browser dispatch)
• /charly-coder:claude-code — Anthropic Claude Code CLI
• /charly-coder:codex — OpenAI Codex CLI
• /charly-coder:gemini — Google Gemini CLI
• /charly-coder:dev-tools — Developer CLI utilities
• /charly-coder:devops-tools — Cloud and infrastructure tools
• /charly-tools:charly — OpenCharly CLI binary
• /charly-infrastructure:tmux-layer — Terminal multiplexer used by typed persistent terminal providers
• /charly-selkies:chrome — Provides BROWSER_CDP_URL (cross-container, from selkies-desktop)
• /charly-selkies:chrome-devtools-mcp — Chrome DevTools MCP server (auto-discovered via mcp_provide, 29 tools)
• /charly-jupyter:jupyter-mcp — JupyterLab CRDT MCP server (auto-discovered via mcp_provide, 11 tools: notebook_/cell_ + notebook_list_users + room_list; auto-attach single-room invariant)
• /charly-build:charly-mcp-cmd — the declarative mcp: check verb (run via charly check live <image> --filter mcp), served out-of-process by candy/plugin-mcp, to verify either of the above is alive and exposing the expected tool catalog before hermes tries to invoke them

Related Boxes

• /charly-hermes:hermes — Standalone full-featured hermes box
• /charly-hermes:hermes-playwright — Hermes with local Playwright Chromium

When to Use This Skill

Use when working with the hermes-full metalayer, full-featured standalone hermes deployments, or the composition of hermes with AI CLIs and developer tools.

Related

• /charly-image:layer — candy authoring reference (charly.yml schema, plan steps, service declarations)
• /charly-check:check — declarative testing (check: block, charly check box, charly check live)