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Hermes state.db is Xerg’s sole monetary authority. Xerg opens it read-only, reconciles Hermes’s session/model/task usage, and never lets observer or trace records add tokens, requests, or spend.

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State-only audits

State-only audits provide exact aggregate economics, tool inventory when Hermes stored tool-message records, compression/branch/delegation lineage, workload economics, and explicit analysis coverage. Because a state aggregate may represent several API requests, Xerg excludes it from retry, tool-loop, context-growth, and other sequence-dependent monetary rules. The report says when those analyses were not eligible; missing evidence is never presented as proof of zero inefficiency.

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Full first-party request evidence

Install Xerg’s optional local observer:
Then run:
The observer records content-free request, tool, terminal, delegation, and lifecycle evidence. For each provider/model group Xerg requires request count and input/output/cache buckets to equal state.db exactly. Exact groups become ordered one-request calls; incomplete, dropped, ambiguous, or conflicting groups remain unchanged aggregates. Authoritative cost is allocated across exact requests and sums back to the state cost exactly. The observer never persists prompts, messages, tool definitions, arguments, commands, paths, results, delegated goals, summaries, or file contents. Content may be inspected transiently only to compute counts, byte sizes, and process-scoped keyed fingerprints.

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Local analysis blocks

Both Hermes and OpenClaw local summaries can include:
  • analysisCoverage: eligible/fallback request counts plus tool, lineage, and context coverage
  • toolActivity: execution names/counts, exact/heuristic/unassociated linkage, result bytes, and associated model spend
  • workloadEconomics: root/child/descendant calls and spend, depth, first-child economics, and lineage gaps
Hermes also retains mechanicalEfficiency for direct terminal/tool mechanics. These blocks remain local. They do not change findings taxonomy, recommendations, thresholds, Audit Push Payload v3, hosted storage, dashboards, or MCP.