v0.1.0 - Initial public release

Initial public release of Hermes Kids Profile Blueprint, a parent-operated starter kit for designing a private, child-facing Hermes Agent profile.

Highlights

• Trusted-adult bootstrap and private profile design workflow
• Starting points for SOUL.md, USER.md, and MEMORY.md
• Adaptive parent decision guidance with safe, reversible defaults
• Least-capability, local speech-to-text, text-first response, and messaging reliability guidance
• Scenario-based evaluations, maintenance guidance, and a synthetic example
• Research basis plus private vulnerability, safety, and privacy reporting
• Stable bootstrap instructions pinned to this immutable v0.1.0 release

Important boundary

This repository is source material, not an installable profile, OS sandbox, certification, clinical validation, or safety guarantee. A parent or trusted adult must inspect the installed Hermes release, configure appropriate process and OS boundaries, and test the resulting profile in the child-facing interface. Repository hygiene and secret-scanning checks passed; a clean-room deployed-profile test was intentionally not part of this release.