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Hermit Agent — Development skill for Claude Code

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Hermit-crab agent — one npx command bootstraps a Telegram-connected Claude Code (or Codex CLI) agent with persona, long-term memory, scheduler, and browser automation.

How to install Hermit Agent

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open swaylq/hermit-agent and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Hermit Agent does

Hermit-crab agent — one npx command bootstraps a Telegram-connected Claude Code (or Codex CLI) agent with persona, long-term memory, scheduler, and browser automation.

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README

Hermit Agent

**Not a standalone agent framework — a hermit crab that lodges inside an existing AI coding host. One command bootstraps a Telegram-connected agent with persona, long-term memory, scheduler, and browser automation. Default host is [Claude Code](https://docs.claude.com/claude-code); pass `--host codex` to lodge inside [OpenAI Codex CLI](https://developers.openai.com/codex/cli) and use a ChatGPT subscription instead of API spend.**

[English](README.md) · [中文](README.zh-CN.md)

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Why a hermit crab?

Claude Code closes its third-party subscription surface, so I built an agent that **lodges inside its host CLI itself** — fusing the best ideas from three agent-harness frameworks. The default host is Claude Code; v0.1.38+ also supports Codex CLI as a sibling host (see [Host choice](#host-choice-claude-code-or-codex)).

Borrowed from	What it contributed
Claude Code	The default shell. Every agent literally runs inside `claude --dangerously-skip-permissions`. Plugins, MCP, tools, hooks — all native, nothing reimplemented.
Codex CLI (opt-in via `--host codex`)	Alternative she