v0.5.0: Hermes Agent plugin

Added

• Hermes Agent plugin in .hermes-plugin/: per-prompt guidance and the previous-reply review through pre_llm_call. Install it with hermes plugins install NovusEdge/readable-responses --enable.
• node hooks/check.js --json for hosts that pass message text instead of a transcript.
• $HERMES_HOME/readable-responses.json (default ~/.hermes) as a limits source.

Changed

• The guidance asks for connected prose in short answers, and scannable structure past about 150 words and in documents.

Fixed

• A limits file holding valid JSON that is not an object, such as null, no longer breaks the hook; it is skipped.

v0.4.0: Codex plugin

Added

• Codex plugin manifest at .codex-plugin/plugin.json, sharing the skill and hooks/hooks.json with the Claude plugin. Installs with codex plugin add; install.py --codex stays as an alternative, and using both runs the hook twice.
• Description on the Claude marketplace manifest, so claude plugin validate --strict passes.

v0.3.0: contextual guidance and de-slopify

Changed

• Replaced mandatory sentence and paragraph caps with contextual review signals.
• Removed automatic table requirements and instructions to rewrite every future reply.
• Added tone guidance that preserves meaning, evidence, uncertainty, author voice, and the user's requested format. Progress updates can state the next action without inventing a finding.
• Reframed hook findings as passages to inspect. Detection thresholds and configuration precedence remain compatible.

Added

• Bundled the de-slopify editing skill, its review references, and Codex metadata. The skill now ships under the same version as the plugin.
• Codex installation of the bundled skill, preserving existing personal copies and unrelated hooks.
• Regression coverage for advisory notices and skill installation.

Fixed

• Validate existing Codex hook JSON before replacing installed files.

v0.2.1 — fix plugin load

The Claude Code plugin failed to load. hooks/hooks.json loads automatically, and plugin.json also declared it, which Claude Code rejects as a duplicate.

Every Claude Code install since 0.1.0 was inert. Reinstall to pick up the fix.

The Codex path was never affected, since it registers through ~/.codex/hooks.json.

v0.2.0 — full rule coverage and Codex CLI support

Every rule the hook injects now has a check behind it, and the plugin runs on Codex CLI as well as Claude Code.

New rules

Rule	Limit
buried lead	first sentence opens with a preamble (Let me, I'll, Sure,, Based on)
prose table	3 or more consecutive Label: value lines outside a list
long list item	bullet or numbered item over paragraphWords

prose table fires on the hand-rolled shape only. A comparison spread across flowing sentences goes unreported, because the broader heuristic hit ordinary prose.

Fixed

Bullets and numbered items were dropped before counting, so an overlong list item never reported.

The sentence splitter cut at e.g. The. That turned one long sentence into two short ones and hid the violation.

Codex CLI

Install with ./install.py --codex. Verified against the Codex binary at 0.153.4.

The hook registers under ~/.codex/hooks.json, emits hookSpecificOutput.additionalContext, and reads the rollout schema where the message nests under payload.

Config precedence

limits.json lives in the marketplace cache, which an update overwrites. Thresholds now resolve from .readable-responses.json in the project, then ~/.claude, then ~/.codex, then the shipped defaults.

Breaking

install.sh is gone. Use install.py, which covers both hosts and works on Windows.