Apply and watch

Push the folder onto Hermes. Log in. Watch the job. Pause is not sleep.

After one good one-pass, apply the folder. Apply creates or edits the Runtime job. Then you log in. Then you watch.

This page is the loop after Run a pocket agent. The model is Pocket agent.

Apply

dora harness apply <slug>

dora harness boot <slug> is the same command. First apply creates the job. Later apply edits that job.

Apply also:

Trusts the routine folder and inits a git root if missing.
Sets cron --workdir and attaches each skills-run name with --skill.
Fetches kit skills from GitHub main unless you pass --keep-copies.
Installs the hook that stamps Sent by pocket agent <slug> on GitHub and Slack.

A tick does not refresh. After a skillkit or authstack merge, run apply again. Pass --keep-copies to skip. A local origin stays on disk.

Then Dora exits. You can close that terminal. Hermes keeps a background service on this Mac.

Log in

Dora does not open the browser. Run this in a real terminal:

hermes mcp login scalekit

If a later run cannot reach Scalekit, run that login again.

Watch

After apply, boot, list, pause, and resume, Dora prints Runtime watch commands:

hermes cron list
hermes cron runs
hermes logs
hermes dashboard

hermes logs is the global Runtime agent log. For one job, use:

dora harness logs <slug>
dora harness show <slug>

Pause vs sleep

dora harness pause <slug>
dora harness resume <slug>
dora harness list

pause skips later runs of that routine only. Other routines keep going. A run that already started may finish. resume starts later runs again. list shows each slug as running, paused, or none.

Close the laptop and the Mac sleeps. Jobs do not run while the Mac sleeps. That is not pause. Due jobs can fire on wake if the job is not paused.

Change interval or model

Edit interval, model, provider, or reasoning_effort in ~/.dora/harness/<slug>/routine.yml. Then apply again. You do not re-run the grill.

dora harness models

That command reads ~/.hermes. It does not invent a catalog.

To fire one pass now, say run once. Do not set a 1 minute interval during the grill.

Common mistakes

Applying before login.
Treating a quiet one-pass as a hang. Wait, or Ctrl+C and run hermes mcp login scalekit.
Using hermes logs for one routine. Use dora harness logs <slug>.
Treating laptop close as dora harness pause. Sleep stops the clock. It does not pause the job.
Expecting a tick to refresh kit skills. Run apply again after a merge.

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