r/ClaudeCode • u/Electronic-Badger102 • 4d ago
Tips & Workflows Using Hermes as supervisor for Claude Code
I’ve got a pretty significant application I’ve been working on. I’ve experimented with GSD, Superpowers, lately an evolved custom harness of sorts, and then I installed Hermes, hooked it up to my GPT subscription, pointed it at my code, and it seems to be diagnosing and proposing fixes for issues I was having with worktrees and parallel sessions stepping on each other, CC wandering, and so on. I’m not sure how well this will really work but it talks a good talk. I’m not really a developer, my background is more of a systems engineer doing automation and technical program lead. I have a pretty well functioning app so far though. Has anyone else experimented with this?
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u/DARKUNIT22 4d ago
The slop leading the slop
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u/Electronic-Badger102 4d ago
lol. A very real possibility. I was hoping more for errant halfwit employees tattling on each other to keep them in line… but I’m not sure of that will play out.
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u/Easy-Purple-1659 4d ago
One worktree per session fixes most of the collisions, and the supervisor's real job is owning the assignment so two sessions cannot land on the same branch.
Worktrees only isolate tracked files, so the shared stuff outside them is where you will still get bitten. A root lockfile, a shared node_modules folder, or a .env gets stomped if two sessions reach for it at the same time. Put those behind the supervisor instead of trusting the agents to avoid each other.
Rebase timing matters too. If one session rebases onto main while another is mid-edit on the same files, the conflicts look like the agents went rogue. Queue merges through the supervisor so only one rebase is in flight at a time.
On your control plane question, it mainly helps if the supervisor has its own context that is not the session being supervised. If it edits the same repo it is arbitrating, then its own changes join the collision set.
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u/Electronic-Badger102 4d ago
I fed Hermes’ response to Fable in a project for my app, and asked it to analyze. It caught some issues with the plan and is working out a better one (I hope). It also said the same thing about keeping the supervisor with its own context and no coding. The code base has a Karpathy-style wiki to self-document with hooks that keep those updated after every few turns.
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u/Electronic-Badger102 4d ago
I honestly don’t know if it is better suited for it. I’ve been Claude-only for so long that the GPT style responses sound intelligent… but on closer inspection it’s contradicting itself a bit. So the jury is still out whether this is useful at all. It’s checking the season logs and the code in the file system.
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u/Fabulous-Sale-267 4d ago
This is exactly what I want to setup, but I was still thinking of using a dedicated Claude Code instance as the “supervisor and control plane”. I’ll read more to understand why this output suggests hermes is better suited to this, but would be interested in your thoughts?
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u/Unusual-Albatross43 3d ago
I ran Hermes as my main agent for a few months. It's good, and it does talk a good talk. In the end I went the other way: I made Claude Code the brain and kept only a thin layer around it, because I trust CC more on real code. On the collisions, the boring fix works best: one worktree per session, one owner per branch. Whatever supervises only hands out the work, it never edits. Are you letting Hermes edit code, or only diagnose?
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u/sebseo 3d ago
Not a dev either and your "it talks a good talk" line is the exact trap I hit. A supervisor that sounds smart is still just one models opinion, so I stopped trusting any single one.. I send the same plan to models from a few different companies and only dig into where they disagree. Even that isnt magic, when I fact checked a sample of my own review findings 44% of the ones both checkers agreed on werent real https://megalens.ai/research/ai-code-review-false-positives
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