Meta Router

This is a Hermes-native meta-router workflow skill.

Why This Exists

meta-router exists to turn a leading /omh command into a live catalog lookup: it reasons over the imperative task, selects or chains concrete workflows, and keeps the decision inside the observed/prepared evidence boundary instead of guessing from memory.

Do Not Use When

• The /omh token is not the leading command token.
• The message is a bare picker alias or an OMH catalog/entrypoint question — those belong to oh-my-hermes.

Examples

Good example:

• Prompt: /omh migrate this service off the deprecated API and add tests
• Expected behavior: Consult omh recommend on the remainder, then chain the recommended plan and executor workflows with explicit observed-vs-prepared evidence boundaries.
• Why: A leading /omh command with an imperative remainder is a meta-routing request that reasons over the live catalog rather than a memorized list.

Bad example:

• Prompt: omh add dark mode
• Expected behavior: Do not meta-route; a bare omh alias without a leading slash command is a picker/other-lane signal.
• Why: Meta-routing triggers only on a leading /omh or ./omh command token, not on a bare alias.

Completion Checklist

• The selected workflow, confidence reason, evidence boundary, and user-facing next action are named.
• Low-confidence or conflicting signals return a picker or clarification instead of forced routing.
• Catalog answers are rendered without shell approval when wrapper metadata is sufficient.

Recovery Notes

• If routing signals conflict, show the compact picker or ask one clarifying question.
• If wrapper metadata is unavailable, keep the recommendation advisory and avoid runtime claims.

Workflow Lane

• Current lane: Intent -> plan (oh-my-hermes, meta-router, deep-interview, context, plan, ralplan, codebase-onboarding, codegraph-refresh, +4 more) - clarify, plan, ship, or loop goals.
• 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 when the user opens a message with the /omh or ./omh command followed by an imperative task; reason over the task, consult the live OMH catalog, and select or chain the right workflow(s).

Strong routing signals: /omh, ./omh

Catalog Metadata

Category: router Phase: meta-routing Hermes role: guide Quality tier: routing-gated Reasoning demand: light

Quality bar:

• Route only from a leading /omh or ./omh command token with a task remainder, never from a bare alias.
• Consult the live catalog on every decision instead of a memorized or embedded skill list.
• Exclude meta-router from its own recommendation output and choose the next best concrete workflow or chain.
• Report the routing decision as prepared guidance, not execution, review, CI, or merge evidence.

Handoff policy:

Reason over the /omh remainder, select or chain concrete workflows from the live catalog, and prepare a selected executor/runtime handoff only when the chosen chain requires code edits; do not execute code.

Required inputs:

• leading /omh or ./omh command with an imperative remainder
• live OMH catalog via bounded omh recommend --json queries
• available shell/CLI or plugin tool surface

Expected outputs:

• selected workflow or chain with rationale
• consulted catalog evidence from the bounded recommend output
• observed-vs-prepared evidence boundary for the routing decision

Artifact expectations:

• runtime run record when a wrapper can observe the meta-routing decision

Safety rules:

• Trigger only on a leading /omh or ./omh command token with a task remainder; bare /omh, ./omh, or omh without a slash is a picker/other-lane signal, not meta-routing.
• Shortlist candidates from the installed references/catalog-index.md (name plus one-line description per skill) when it is available, then confirm with omh recommend "<remainder>" --json --limit 3 — the recommend output stays authoritative for the selection and its policy metadata; when the remainder spans multiple stages or the top recommendation is low-confidence, re-query omh recommend once per stage with a rephrased stage description instead of dumping the full catalog. Never run omh docs workflows --json or omh list --json in chat context — their full-catalog output does not fit a chat budget — and never rely on a memorized or embedded skill list; the catalog changes after omh update.
• Never select meta-router itself from the recommendation output; exclude it and route to the next best concrete workflow or chain.
• Report the selected workflow(s), why, and the observed-vs-prepared evidence boundary; a routing decision is not execution, review, CI, or merge evidence.
• If no shell/CLI surface is available, ask the wrapper to run the bounded omh recommend queries or use the plugin tool surface; never guess the catalog from memory — say the catalog is unavailable and offer the workflow picker instead.

Runtime Evidence

Preferred harness for this skill: coding-handling.

sh
omh runtime record --skill meta-router --harness coding-handling --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.