Hermes skill · memetic emergence
Hyperlex
Catch language while it is still becoming culture — slang radar with settled forecasts only.
v0.4.2 · offline-first
What it is
Hyperlex watches how new phrases move through chats, forums, and meme stacks — what showed up, which family it belongs to, how hard it spreads, and whether it is starting to stick.
Offline-friendly by default, receipt-backed when you care. Brier scores only after a human settles an outcome — no fake accuracy.
In short
Week-one path is a short guided wizard; then demos and scans without API keys on the mock route.
Built with
- Hermesmain agent that runs the skill
- Claude Codeoptional second agent host
- OpenClawagent host listed in the install manifest
- Pythonlanguage the skill and command line use
- SQLitedefault local store for searchable phrase history
- ChromaDBoptional search index, local or cloud
- Crawl4AIcollects public web pages when online
- MkDocs and GitHub Pagespublishes docs and a cleaned run history
Changelog
Milestones in plain English, newest first, to Nov 7, 2026
- Added an optional check that keeps near-duplicate examples out of separate training and test sets.
- Adopted a clearer set of labels for human rulings, with correction-only replies and no automatic term rejection.
- Added six new slang families to the family registry and retired the sports-betting family.
- v0.4.2: Claude Code can now install and run Hyperlex alongside Hermes.
- Installing, settling forecasts and cloud uploads now stop safely on errors instead of carrying on.
- The installer can now recover from an interrupted install.
- v0.4.1: shortened the skill description so Hermes shows the full trigger text.
- Added a short guided wizard that walks new users through an offline first week.
- v0.4.0: one command now runs the whole path from collecting text to finished results.
- Forecasts get accuracy (Brier) scores only after a person settles the outcome, with a tamper-evident receipt log.
- Launched a public docs site with cleaned run history and an interactive map of slang families.
Roadmap
What comes next. Plans, not promises, and no dates.
- PlannedReach a stable 1.0 with a fixed skill contract and a long-term analysis archive.
- In progressOffer an optional setting that copies new local results to the cloud search index after each run.
- PlannedAdd a faster search option if the phrase collection grows too large for simple lookups.