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David Abutbul 1e48a955cc fix(release): exclude tests from skill payloads (#230)
* fix(release): exclude tests from skill payloads

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Co-authored-by: David Abutbul <David.a@prompt.security>
2026-05-14 14:38:58 +03:00
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hermes-attestation-guardian

Hermes-only attestation, advisory verification, and guarded verification workflow.

Status: implemented (v0.1.0), Hermes-only.

Capabilities

This skill now covers the full Hermes-side capability set expected from the clawsec-suite parity workstream:

  • Deterministic runtime posture attestation generation.
  • Fail-closed attestation verification (schema + canonical digest).
  • Optional detached signature verification for attestation artifacts.
  • Authenticated baseline diffing with stable severity classification.
  • Scoped output-path enforcement under $HERMES_HOME.
  • Signed advisory feed verification (Ed25519) with optional checksum-manifest verification.
  • Fail-closed advisory verification state persistence under $HERMES_HOME/security/advisories.
  • Advisory-aware guarded skill verification with explicit --confirm-advisory override.
  • Optional recurring scheduler helpers for attestation and advisory checks (print-only by default, explicit apply mode).
  • Sandboxed end-to-end regression harness for install + verify + advisory gates.

Quickstart

Canonical release verification and trust-policy guidance lives in SKILL.md:

  • Mandatory release verification gate (before install)
  • Hermes guard trust policy note

After running that gate, use:

node scripts/generate_attestation.mjs
node scripts/verify_attestation.mjs --input ~/.hermes/security/attestations/current.json
node scripts/refresh_advisory_feed.mjs
node scripts/check_advisories.mjs
node scripts/guarded_skill_verify.mjs --skill some-skill --version 1.2.3
node scripts/setup_attestation_cron.mjs --every 6h --print-only
node scripts/setup_advisory_check_cron.mjs --every 6h --skill some-skill --print-only

Scheduler safety warning: never leave --allow-unsigned enabled in recurring advisory check jobs except during short emergency recovery windows.

Runtime requirements

Required:

  • node

Optional tooling (for local verification workflows):

  • openssl, bash, docker

Tests

node test/attestation_schema.test.mjs
node test/attestation_diff.test.mjs
node test/attestation_cli.test.mjs
node test/setup_attestation_cron.test.mjs
node test/setup_advisory_check_cron.test.mjs
node test/feed_verification.test.mjs
node test/guarded_skill_verify.test.mjs
bash test/hermes_attestation_sandbox_regression.sh