title: “Design intent notes” updated: 2026-04-18
Design intent notes
Short reminders of why we built things, so future-you and future-agents don’t rebuild them differently.
Hermes’s higher purpose: close the data↔knowledge loop
Hermes is NOT just a “build a wiki from a seed topic” tool. Its mature role is the research synthesis engine that closes the loop between project data and project knowledge:
scavenger → raw data (ChEMBL JSONL)
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phgdh_enrichment daemon (G-012, pending)
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ranks new entities → emits seeds for Hermes
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Hermes generates/updates wiki pages, grounded by source_validator
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pages are wikilinked (molecule ↔ target ↔ pathway ↔ disease ↔ paper)
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back-links update phgdh-scavenger summary page
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next day's scavenger finds novel molecules → loop continues
After N weeks, the wiki becomes a living, data-driven knowledge graph specific to this project — every CHEMBL ID, every target, every pathway has a grounded page that links to real literature.
Why this sequencing matters. Do NOT build the enrichment loop before G-001..G-005 produce real “interesting entity” signals (pChEMBL tails, top-20 inhibitors, PDB binding sites). Enrichment on a cold wiki yields generic text. Enrichment on curated signals yields genuine knowledge.
jakeclaw (Gemma 4 26B) vs qwenclaw (Qwen 3.5 9B): deliberate asymmetry
Gemma 4 has the better general reasoning (26B > 9B); Qwen 3.5 has the better tool-call discipline (family was trained for it). We pair them so each does what it’s best at:
- Gemma = thinking, writing, interpreting literature
- Qwen = picking goals, routing commands, auditing outputs
DO NOT swap these without checking the context-window and benchmarks.
Local-first, paid sparingly
Claude (Opus / Claude Code) is a consultant, not an employee. If you catch yourself using Claude for routine work, ask: can a local agent (jakeclaw / qwenclaw / Hermes) do this? Usually yes.
Kill switch is for you, not the agents
STOP-CHROME-CLAUDE in chat halts all agents. They cannot disable it.
This is the escape hatch and stays inviolable.
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