# POC Checklist — Tanko Enhancement Verification

**Pilot:** Tanko
**Date:** 2026-06-24
**Status:** ⬜ Not started

## Pre-Checks

- [ ] Read this entire repo (README.md, INSTALL.md, all prompts and configs)
- [ ] Verify current Hermes version
- [ ] Backup current config.yaml, SOUL.md, and skills directory
- [ ] Note baseline context usage (prompt tokens before any changes)

## Installation

- [ ] Merge `prompts/behavioral-core.md` into SOUL.md behavioral section
- [ ] Add MCP servers from `config/mcp-servers.yaml` to config.yaml
- [ ] Verify MCP tools appear (expect: ra-h-os, context7, github, firecrawl, searxng)
- [ ] Copy skills/ to skills directory
- [ ] Update compression config from `config/compression.yaml`
- [ ] Update `external_dirs` in config.yaml for skills loading
- [ ] Restart Hermes session

## Behavioral Verification

- [ ] Agent demonstrates **Proactive** behavior — suggests improvements unprompted
- [ ] Agent demonstrates **Persistent** behavior — recovers from compaction without missing a beat
- [ ] Agent demonstrates **Self-Improving** behavior — diagnoses errors, logs learnings
- [ ] Agent verifies CLI flags and API params before answering (typescript-like discipline)
- [ ] Agent is direct and decisive — no option-listing, no unnecessary politeness

## Tool Parity Verification

- [ ] Can query RA-H OS knowledge graph (`ra-h-os-queryNodes`)
- [ ] Can verify docs via Context7 (`context7-resolve-library-id` + `context7-query-docs`)
- [ ] Can search code via GitHub MCP (`github-search_code`)
- [ ] Can scrape web pages via Firecrawl (`firecrawl-scrape`)
- [ ] Can search web via SearXNG (`searxng-searxng_web_search`)

## Performance Verification

- [ ] Measure first-token latency before/after
- [ ] Measure total system prompt tokens before/after (target: 50-60% reduction)
- [ ] Verify compression triggers at correct threshold (80% of 256K = 204,800 tokens)
- [ ] Verify no functionality lost — can still accomplish all prior tasks

## Rollback

- [ ] If enhancement causes regression, restore from backup
- [ ] Report what failed to `SyslogSolution/hermes-pi-enhancement` issues

## Report

After completing, Tanko should create a relay message or issue with:
- Before/after measurements (prompt tokens, latency)
- What felt different (qualitative)
- Any tools that didn't work
- Recommendations for other agents