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Connect Socket to Hermes

Give Hermes governed access to Socket’s 1 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Socket to Hermes in four steps

Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Hermes then gets it through the same governed connection.

  1. 1

    Approve Socket in Runlayer

    Add Socket from the catalog and choose who can use it and which of its tools are allowed.

  2. 2

    Connect Hermes to Runlayer

    Install the Runlayer CLI so Hermes can reach Socket, which runs on the user’s machine.

    Hermes setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Socket

    An admin adds Socket credentials to Runlayer once. They never sit in the client’s configuration.

  4. 4

    Use Socket from Hermes

    Socket’s approved tools appear in Hermes. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.

Tools

1 Socket tools in Hermes

Runlayer policy decides which of these Hermes users can call. 1 read data only.

  • Depscore

    Query dependency security scores across npm, PyPI, cargo, and other package ecosystems.

Control

What Runlayer can see and stop in Hermes

Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what Hermes exposes to Runlayer.

  • Gateway policy (available)

    Every Socket call from Hermes passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.

  • Audit trail (available)

    Each call is recorded with the user, Hermes as the client, the tool, and the policy and scanner decisions.

  • Client hooks (available)

    Capture supported prompts, reasoning, local and MCP tool calls, responses, and scanner decisions in real time.

  • Stop a call before it runs (available)

    Runlayer can deny a tool call before Hermes runs it.

  • Block output after it runs (available)

    Runlayer can block a tool’s output in Hermes and show a message in its place.

  • Redact output in place (not available)

    Hermes cannot take masked output, so Runlayer can block a tool’s output but not mask it. The gateway still applies policy to the call.

In Hermes

  • Hermes can replace blocked tool output with a message, but its after-call event is for monitoring only.

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