The Hermes Agent /review command gives you a second pair of eyes on demand: /review [instructions] spawns an independent, full-privilege reviewer subagent that digs into your recent work — PRs, code, docs, artefacts — and delivers a full review back into your session. Here’s exactly what the docs promise, and how to make the reviewer earn its keep.
Short answer
/review [instructions]spawns an independent, full-privilege reviewer subagent for recent work (PRs, code, docs, artefacts).- It investigates in the background — opens the PR, reads the diff, runs code — and its review re-enters your session as a background-subagent completion (per the official slash-commands reference).
- Pin which model reviews via
auxiliary.reviewin config. - CLI and messaging gateway; on Slack it’s
/hermes review.
What the Hermes Agent /review command does
The documented behaviour is unusually muscular: the reviewer is an independent subagent with full privileges. It doesn’t skim your chat and offer opinions — it opens the PR, reads the actual diff, and runs code. When it’s done, the complete review re-enters your session as a background-subagent completion, so you keep working while it investigates.
The optional instructions argument steers focus: /review check the error handling paths gets you a specialist pass instead of a general one. And via auxiliary.review in config you can pin which model does the reviewing — meaning your reviewer can be a different, even stronger model than the one that wrote the work.
Hermes Agent /review in a real pipeline
| Moment | Move | Why |
|---|---|---|
| PR ready, before merge | /review |
Independent eyes on the actual diff, not the chat about it |
| Suspicious area | /review focus on X |
Directed scrutiny where your gut points |
| High-stakes work | Pin a heavyweight via auxiliary.review |
Author and reviewer shouldn’t share blind spots |
The independence is the point. A model reviewing its own fresh output inherits its own assumptions; a separately-spawned reviewer — especially a different pinned model — breaks that correlation. It’s the closest thing to a colleague’s code review you can summon with one line.
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Where /review fits the command family
It completes the arc that /plan starts: plan first, execute against the plan (ideally as a /goal with checkable criteria), then /review the result against intent. Because the reviewer runs in the background, the cost of the habit is nearly zero — fire it, keep moving, read the verdict when it lands.
Practical habit worth building: review before you consider work finished, not after something breaks. The one-line command removes every excuse the busy version of you usually has.
The bottom line on Hermes Agent /review
Hermes Agent /review is a genuine reviewer, not a summariser: independent, full-privilege, diff-reading, code-running, and pinnable to a model of your choosing. Make it the default final step on anything that ships and you’ve institutionalised the discipline most solo operators never get — a second opinion that always shows up.
FAQ: hermes agent /review
What does /review do in Hermes Agent?
It spawns an independent, full-privilege reviewer subagent that investigates recent work — opening PRs, reading diffs, running code — and returns a full review into your session, per the docs.
Can I direct what the reviewer focuses on?
Yes — /review takes optional instructions to steer the review’s focus.
Can a different model do the reviewing?
Yes — pin the reviewer model via auxiliary.review in config.
Does /review block my session while it works?
No — it investigates in the background and its review re-enters as a background-subagent completion.
What can it review?
Recent work broadly: PRs, code, docs and artefacts, per the documentation.
Where does /review work?
CLI and messaging gateway; on Slack use /hermes review.
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Related reading
- Hermes Agent /plan: Plans Without Execution
- Hermes Agent MoA: Mixture of Agents, Explained
- Hermes Agent /refine: Self-Improvement On Demand
Last updated September 2026. This is the living guide to hermes agent /review — it gets updated as the tools change.
