Cancel

Cancel

This is a Hermes-native cancel workflow skill.

Why This Exists

cancel exists to keep operator work explicit, evidence-backed, and inside the Hermes/executor boundary instead of relying on ad hoc chat narration.

Do Not Use When

• The request is casual chat, a status-only acknowledgement, or another workflow has stronger routing evidence.
• The user needs implementation, review, CI, merge, or external publishing evidence that has not been delegated or observed.

Examples

Good example:

• Prompt: cancel: handle a operator request that needs explicit evidence boundaries and a clear stop condition.
• Expected behavior: Run cancel only after naming the target, evidence boundary, and stop condition.
• Why: The request matches the catalog use case and keeps observed evidence separate from prepared guidance.

Bad example:

• Prompt: cancel: treat casual chat or unaccepted work as if this workflow already produced verified results.
• Expected behavior: Ask a clarification question or route to a narrower workflow instead of forcing cancel.
• Why: The request lacks the required inputs or would overclaim work that Hermes did not observe.

Completion Checklist

• The local command, managed path, config surface, and state artifact inspected are named.
• Blocking issues, warnings, and optional surfaces are separated.
• The next repair action is explicit and does not claim a reload or runtime observation.

Recovery Notes

• If a managed path or config key is missing, route to setup/update repair instead of editing hidden state.
• If a reload or plugin load was not observed, keep the diagnostic result as local health evidence only.

OMH Context Rail

• This skill is part of OMH's Hermes workflow layer, not a standalone executor.
• Product context: OMH is a Hermes-native workflow pack: choose skills, shape work, prepare artifacts, show status, and hand off with evidence boundaries.
• Current lane: Automation and status (achievements, workspace-audit, production-audit, automation-blueprint, github-event-ops, agent-board, gateway-intent-card, voice-operator, +26 more) - schedules, status, health, and ops review.
• If the user intent belongs to another OMH lane, hand back to oh-my-hermes or name the adjacent workflow instead of force-fitting this skill.
• Cross-skill context: every OMH skill: match lane; generic tool can render or execute.
• Generic-tool checkpoint: image->img-summary; frontend->frontend/a11y/visual-qa; paper->paper-learning; content->content-operator; media->media-input-operator; file->materials-package; search->web-research; live->live-info-operator; audit->workspace/production/security; failures->build-failure; verify->verification-gate; code->codegraph/onboarding/ultraprocess.
• Coverage: Every generated workflow skill carries this rail.
• Normal users talk to Hermes; OMH CLI is infra.
• Boundary: Prepared OMH routing, cards, handoffs, or artifacts are not observed execution, image generation, delivery, review, CI, merge-readiness, or merge evidence.

Use When

Use to cleanly end active adapted workflow state.

Strong routing signals: cancel, $cancel, stop, abort

Catalog Metadata

Category: operator Phase: state-cleanup Hermes role: tracker Quality tier: evidence-gated

Quality bar:

• Name the workflow target, constraints, validation evidence, and stop condition.
• Separate Hermes guidance from executor or wrapper behavior unless evidence proves the step happened.

Handoff policy:

Run directly in Hermes/runtime state; never delegate cancellation to a coding executor.

Required inputs:

• active workflow state
• cancellation intent

Expected outputs:

• cleared state
• safe stop summary

Artifact expectations:

• state clear record when state exists

Safety rules:

• Do not imply hidden Hermes runtime behavior.
• Use the smallest verification that can prove the claim.

Harness Discipline

• Start from the representative harness registry in oh-my-hermes when the workflow needs coding, research, planning, goal execution, architecture, critique, QA, or documentation lanes.
• Prefer richer evidence and clearer stop conditions over adding more workflow names.
• Use specialist lanes only when they change the quality of the answer or verification.

Runtime Evidence

Preferred harness for this skill: goal-execution.

When local shell access or a bot wrapper is available, record metadata-only evidence:

omh runtime record --skill cancel --harness goal-execution --status started
omh runtime delegate --run  --requested --not-observed --result not_observed

Record observed delegation results when Hermes or the wrapper exposes them. If delegation is unavailable, keep the result explicit as not_available or not_observed.

Hermes Compatibility Contract

• Preserve the workflow intent, stop conditions, and verification discipline.
• Use Hermes-native tools, file operations, and subagent/delegation features when available.
• Do not require runtime tools, role prompts, or overlays that Hermes Agent does not expose.
• Respect omh_target_topology/v1 when a wrapper reports it: bind state to the current target/thread, adapt only the parts of this workflow that benefit from multiple Hermes agents, and fall back to single-target behavior when active_agent_count is one.
• When target topology changes from one to many or many to one, give a concise setup-change comment or use the wrapper's apply action before treating the new topology as persistent.
• Treat wrapper-supplied memory/context summaries as advisory local context, not proof that opaque Hermes memory was read or changed.
• When a runtime-specific mechanism appears in imported instructions, translate it to a Hermes-native artifact:
• goal tools -> .omh/goals/ ledgers, goal_completion_gate/v1, goal_status_card/v1, goal_continuation/v1, or explicit checklists with named next actions,
• question renderers -> one concise question in the current Hermes interface,
• native subagents -> Hermes delegation when available, otherwise sequential lanes,
• shell bridge commands -> optional bridge mode only.

Execution Rules

1. Load supporting context with skills_list / skill_view when needed.
2. State the workflow target, constraints, validation evidence, and stop condition.
3. Keep progress evidence-backed.
4. Verify with the smallest relevant test or inspection before claiming completion.
5. If Hermes cannot provide a required runtime capability, say so and use the fallback above.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: rlaope
• Source: rlaope/oh-my-hermes
• License: MIT
• Homepage: https://rlaope.github.io/oh-my-hermes/

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.