Context References
Type followed by a reference to inject content directly into your message. Hermes expands the reference inline and appends the content under an section. Support
Type followed by a reference to inject content directly into your message. Hermes expands the reference inline and appends the content under an section. Multiple references work in a single message: Trailing punctuation (, , , , ) is automatically stripped from reference values. …
What this page covers
- Supported References
- Usage Examples
- CLI Tab Completion
- Line Ranges
- Size Limits
- Security
- Sensitive Path Blocking
- Path Traversal Protection
- Binary File Detection
- Platform Availability
- Interaction with Context Compression
- Common Patterns
- Error Handling
Section outline mirrored from the official Hermes Agent documentation. Follow any heading to read the complete text on the source site.
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