Cancel

This is a Hermes-native cancel workflow skill.

Why This Exists

cancel exists to keep operator work explicit, evidence-backed, and inside the Hermes/executor boundary instead of relying on ad hoc chat narration.

Do Not Use When

• The request is casual chat, a status-only acknowledgement, or another workflow has stronger routing evidence.
• The user needs implementation, review, CI, merge, or external publishing evidence that has not been delegated or observed.

Examples

Good example:

• Prompt: cancel: handle a operator request that needs explicit evidence boundaries and a clear stop condition.
• Expected behavior: Run cancel only after naming the target, evidence boundary, and stop condition.
• Why: The request matches the catalog use case and keeps observed evidence separate from prepared guidance.

Bad example:

• Prompt: cancel: treat casual chat or unaccepted work as if this workflow already produced verified results.
• Expected behavior: Ask a clarification question or route to a narrower workflow instead of forcing cancel.
• Why: The request lacks the required inputs or would overclaim work that Hermes did not observe.

Completion Checklist

• The local command, managed path, config surface, and state artifact inspected are named.
• Blocking issues, warnings, and optional surfaces are separated.
• The next repair action is explicit and does not claim a reload or runtime observation.

Recovery Notes

• If a managed path or config key is missing, route to setup/update repair instead of editing hidden state.
• If a reload or plugin load was not observed, keep the diagnostic result as local health evidence only.

Workflow Lane

• Current lane: Automation and status (achievements, workspace-audit, production-audit, automation-blueprint, github-event-ops, buzz, agent-board, gateway-intent-card, +34 more) - schedules, status, health, and ops review.
• If intent belongs to another lane, hand back to oh-my-hermes or name the adjacent workflow.
• Shared product, routing, compatibility, and evidence rules: omh-routing/references/skill-common-rail.md.

Use When

Use to cleanly end active adapted workflow state.

Strong routing signals: cancel, $cancel, stop the workflow, abort the run, cancel the loop

Catalog Metadata

Category: operator Phase: state-cleanup Hermes role: tracker Quality tier: evidence-gated Reasoning demand: light

Quality bar:

• Name the workflow target, constraints, validation evidence, and stop condition.
• Separate Hermes guidance from executor or wrapper behavior unless evidence proves the step happened.

Handoff policy:

Run directly in Hermes/runtime state; never delegate cancellation to a coding executor.

Required inputs:

• active workflow state
• cancellation intent

Expected outputs:

• cleared state
• safe stop summary

Artifact expectations:

• state clear record when state exists

Safety rules:

• Do not imply hidden Hermes runtime behavior.
• Use the smallest verification that can prove the claim.

Runtime Evidence

Preferred harness for this skill: goal-execution.

sh
omh runtime record --skill cancel --harness goal-execution --status started

Record observed delegation results; otherwise return not_available or not_observed. Prepared OMH routing is not execution, review, CI, merge-readiness, or merge evidence.

• Treat wrapper memory/context summaries as advisory local context, not proof of opaque Hermes memory reads or changes.

Preserve workflow intent and stop conditions; verify before claiming completion.

Use Hermes-native subagent/delegation features when available: native subagents -> Hermes delegation when available, otherwise sequential lanes.

Shared product, compatibility, topology, memory, harness, and execution rules: omh-routing/references/skill-common-rail.md. Load it when applicable; otherwise name an unavailable capability.