# hermes-box-lite configuration. Sourced by ./box. Edit freely. # Base OCI image each instance is built from. `ubuntu:24.04` is multi-arch — on # Apple Silicon smolvm pulls the native arm64 variant (no emulation). BASE_IMAGE="ubuntu:24.04" # VM sizing. Values are validated before smolvm is called. STORAGE_GIB is optional; # the 64 GiB overlay leaves room for a large Hermes database and backup staging. BOX_CPUS="4" BOX_MEM_MIB="8192" BOX_OVERLAY_GIB="64" BOX_STORAGE_GIB="" # Tool major line selected during provisioning. NODE_MAJOR="22" # NodeSource major line; claude-code, codex, executor run on Node # Pin exact npm package versions so `box new`/`box repair` are reproducible # instead of always installing whatever is currently `latest`. Empty (the # default) keeps the old latest-on-install behavior. CLAUDE_CODE_VERSION="" # e.g. "2.1.197" — see `npm view @anthropic-ai/claude-code versions` CODEX_VERSION="" # e.g. "0.142.4" — see `npm view @openai/codex versions` EXECUTOR_VERSION="" # e.g. "1.5.26" — the github.com/RhysSullivan/executor npm # package; "executor" is a generic name, so double-check # `npm view executor repository.url` if pinning a version # --- Hermes Agent (Nous Research) ------------------------------------------- # Installed headless via the official script. Code -> /usr/local/lib (root-mode # FHS layout); state -> $HERMES_HOME on /data. INSTALL_HERMES=1 HERMES_INSTALL_ARGS="--skip-browser" # headless box: skip Playwright/Chromium deps HERMES_REPO_URL="https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent.git" HERMES_GIT_SHA="244a6f2ceb7f58c16b3cb2186584c39524e37874" # SHA-256 of https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh, verified before # the installer is ever executed as root. Update intentionally with upstream; # last verified against upstream 2026-06-30. Run `make check-hermes-pin` to # check this pin against the live installer without committing a new one. HERMES_INSTALLER_SHA256="a93c65b01ea392e179cf872e182bd01a2b65c0c15f17833e9f9569033ef10e07" # Optional repository-relative, self-contained Git bundle. Keep private/custom # bundles under artifacts/ (ignored by Git). The commit and all of its required # objects must be present; incremental bundles with external prerequisites fail. HERMES_GIT_BUNDLE="" HERMES_API_PORT="8642" EXPOSE_HERMES_API=0 HERMES_API_PORT_LO=8650 HERMES_API_PORT_HI=8850 # Applied only to active imported config/env/cron/hook/script files. Empty by # default — this is operator/machine-specific (e.g. your old macOS username), # not something to commit. Set it here for your own deployment, or pass # --map OLD=NEW per invocation (see docs/nexus-operations.md's migration # runbook for a worked example); import-hermes applies both if both are set. HERMES_IMPORT_PATH_MAP="" # --- Executor (github.com/RhysSullivan/executor) ---------------------------- # npm global; daemon + web UI + MCP. Data lives under $HOME (=/data) via XDG. INSTALL_EXECUTOR=1 EXECUTOR_PORT="4788" # executor's port INSIDE the box (always 4788) EXPOSE_EXECUTOR_WEB=1 # forward each box's executor UI to a unique host port EXECUTOR_PORT_LO=4790 # host-port range; `box new` picks a free random port in EXECUTOR_PORT_HI=4999 # [LO,HI] per box, so many boxes don't collide WIRE_EXECUTOR_MCP=1 # register daemon's authenticated HTTP MCP for claude + codex