Knights Radiant
https://github.com/Hmbown/knightsradiant- Category
- AI Agents
- Rank
- No. 2104Tools index
Previous survey · No. 2098 ·
- Pricing
- Open Source
- Type
- AGENT
- Builder
- Hmbown
- GitHub
- 2 stars
- Date
About
Hermes agent profile and skill pack for structured engineering work, modeled on the ten Orders of the Knights Radiant.
What it does
Knights Radiant breaks engineering work into focused roles for architecture, reliability, integration, observability, edge cases, naming, simplification, enforcement, scaffolding, and rollout safety. A router selects either one role or a staged sequence. Each role produces a concrete artifact, such as an ADR, compatibility matrix, telemetry plan, regression guard, or rollback packet, which constrains the next hand-off.
Why it's ranked here
The strongest idea is serialized perspective with explicit outputs. The documented migration flow moves from boundary decisions through compatibility and enforcement to rollback planning, carrying prior artifacts forward. That makes the method more actionable than a collection of themed prompts. Its value still depends on disciplined use and on Hermes, while the supplied evidence demonstrates workflow design and consistency checks rather than outcomes from production projects.
What's good
The routing model distinguishes the most urgent lens from a broader sequence, so small tasks need not invoke every role. Defined output contracts turn abstract advice into reviewable artifacts. The repository includes worked bug, migration, and API-cleanup examples with thresholds, compatibility states, exception rules, and rollback steps. A Python consistency check compares canonical order contracts with their Hermes skill counterparts, catching documentation drift across all ten roles.
Tradeoffs
This is primarily documentation, prompts, templates, and installation helpers, not an engineering runtime that executes migrations, tests systems, or deploys changes. The standard setup requires Hermes, an existing usable profile, Python, Bash, and a macOS or Linux shell. Ten named roles add vocabulary and process overhead. Even the documentation warns that using every role can be excessive and offers a three-lens minimum instead.
How to use it well
Use it for risky migrations, bug triage, refactors, or new subsystems where several engineering concerns must remain explicit across hand-offs. Start with the narrow router for one dominant constraint, or choose the staged router when architecture, integration, enforcement, and rollout all matter. Keep each artifact in context and load one role at a time. It does not replace implementation tools, test runners, observability systems, CI infrastructure, or deployment automation.
Technical notes+
README.md defines the routing matrix, installation surface, one-order-at-a-time protocol, and worked session flow. CYCLE.md specifies greenfield, triage, refactor, migration, minimum, and exception sequences; IDEALS.md supplies shared operating constraints. scripts/verify_output_contracts.py maps ten order directories to ten Hermes skills and compares required bullet lists for exact drift detection. profiles/knights-radiant/patch-profile-config.py normalizes reasoning effort, tool enforcement, display personality, personality blocks, and external skill directories while validating duplicate or stale configuration. install.sh delegates profile setup to the repository's profile installer. docs/examples/artifact-excerpts.md shows concrete ADR, compatibility, enforcement, observability, abort, and rollback content.
Observed
- License
- MIT License
- Implementation surface
- Documentation and prompts with Bash and Python installation and verification helpers
- Install surface
- Repository install script creates a Hermes profile; existing profiles can attach the skills directory directly
- Interface
- Hermes profile and loadable skill pack with single-lens and staged-cycle routers
- Platform support
- Requires Hermes, Python 3, Bash, and a macOS or Linux shell environment
- Structure
- Ten order roles produce explicit hand-off artifacts and have corresponding Hermes skill entrypoints
Read from README.md, scripts/verify_output_contracts.py, profiles/knights-radiant/patch-profile-config.py, docs/examples/artifact-excerpts.md, docs/examples/bug-triage-example.md, docs/examples/api-cleanup-example.md, docs/examples/risky-migration-example.md, docs/examples/session-transcript-example.md, LICENSE, CYCLE.md, IDEALS.md, CODEOWNERS, install.sh, SECURITY.md, CHANGELOG.md.
What it can do
Structure engineering project workflows
Engineering project requirements and tasks → Organized workflow structure with defined phases and deliverables
Generate engineering documentation templates
Project type and engineering discipline specifications → Standardized documentation templates and formats
Analyze engineering problems using specialized skill sets
Engineering problem description and context → Structured analysis with recommended solution approaches
Create engineering code frameworks
Technical requirements and engineering specifications → Code scaffolding and architectural frameworks
Perform engineering design reviews
Engineering designs and technical specifications → Structured review feedback with improvement recommendations
Generate engineering test plans
System requirements and testing objectives → Comprehensive test plans with validation criteria
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