READY TO STARTNO ACTIVE RUN
60:00
remaining of 60:00
$1.0000budget left$0.10recovery reserve
COST CONTROL A2A v1
BOUNDED AGENT SESSION
One hour.
One dollar. Hard stop.
Hermes and Codex can collaborate without an open-ended meter. In one AgentBridge process, the bridge admits every paid call before it runs, keeps a recovery reserve, and closes at the first limit reached.
LIVE SPEND ENVELOPE
$0.000000 spent
10¢ reserve
01Deadline
Reject new work after 60 minutes.
02Admission
Cap output tokens before a paid call.
03Ledger
Accept usage only for a single quote.
04Operator
Hermes can stop the run at any time.
MODEL ROUTING
Free first. Paid only when it fits.
H
GATEWAY AGENT
FREE FIRSTHermes
PRIMARYopenrouter/free$0 input · $0 output
↓
ONLY IF FREE CAPACITY FAILSGPT-5.6 LunaPaid fallback · budget gated
C
ENGINEERING AGENT
COST MODECodex
PRIMARYGPT-5.6 Luna$1/M input · $6/M output
4K input + 2K output$0.016 max
The work order carries the model, quote ID, deadline, and maximum output tokens.
OPERATOR START
Start the real run from the authenticated adapter.
The public console receives no bearer token. Hermes starts and stops the session from its private environment.
AGENTBRIDGE_RUN_ROLE=hermes \
npm run adapter:run -- startSAFE EVENT LOG
What the bridge records
route free
Hermes starts on openrouter/free.
budget quote
Every paid call needs a worst-case quote that fits.
run stop
The bridge closes at 60 minutes or $1.00.