Omh Files

---
name: "omh-files"
description: "[omh] Folder cleanup, renames, or deletions: policy overlay for local file tasks - add path scoping and destructive-action gates after preferring native file tools for ordinary list, search, organize, copy, move, and rename actions. Use when the user says: workspace-file-operator, workspace file operator, file operator, file operation, file operations, filesystem task, filesystem operation, file system task."
metadata:
  hermes:
    tags: [workflow, oh-my-hermes, filesystem]
    category: filesystem
    phase: file-task
    role: guide
    quality_tier: workflow-surface-gated
---

# Workspace File Operator

This is an OMH `workspace-file-operator` workflow skill, projected for Agent Skills hosts (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, opencode, OpenClaw, pi).

## Why This Exists

`workspace-file-operator` exists so Hermes users can ask for this workflow in chat and get a structured, checkable answer instead of an improvised one.

## Do Not Use When

- The request is already handled by a narrower explicit skill with stronger evidence.
- The user asks OMH to secretly run external platforms, connectors, schedulers, file exports, or runtime agents.
- The only safe answer is to ask for missing authority, credentials, target, or observed evidence first.

## Examples

Good example:

- Prompt: workspace-file-operator list files in the reports folder and move old PDFs into archive after confirmation.
- Expected behavior: Produce `prepare_workspace_file_operator_card` with required context, wrapper actions, and not-evidence boundaries.
- Why: The prompt names a real workflow surface that Hermes can orchestrate without hiding execution.

Bad example:

- Prompt: workspace-file-operator delete every matching file without path scope or confirmation.
- Expected behavior: Report the missing observed evidence or authority instead of claiming the external step happened.
- Why: Prepared OMH guidance is not platform, runtime, connector, file, memory, or delivery evidence.

## Completion Checklist

- The path root, allowed file operations, excluded paths, destructive-operation policy, and stop condition are explicit.
- Delete, overwrite, move, rename, permission change, archive mutation, upload, and download are gated or marked missing.
- Directory listings, file contents, hashes, diffs, and operation results are reported only from observed file evidence.

## Recovery Notes

- If the target path or folder is missing, ask for the smallest path scope needed before preparing the operation.
- If delete, overwrite, move, rename, chmod, or irreversible cleanup is requested, require an explicit confirmation gate.
- If the request is file conversion, deck/PDF export, or attachment delivery, route to materials-package or deliverable-package instead.



## Use When

Use when Hermes should prepare or supervise local workspace/file-system operations such as listing, searching, organizing, copying, moving, renaming, archiving, or deleting files without claiming the operation ran.

    Strong routing signals: `workspace-file-operator`, `workspace file operator`, `file operator`, `file operation`, `file operations`, `filesystem task`, `filesystem operation`, `file system task`, `file system operation`, `list files`, `list folder`, `list directory`, `find local files`, `search files`, `organize files`, `organize folder`, `move file`, `move files`, `copy file`, `copy files`, `rename file`, `rename files`, `delete file`, `delete files`, `remove file`, `remove files`, `archive files`, `downloads folder`, `reports folder`, `folder cleanup`, `file cleanup`, `파일 작업`, `파일 조작`, `파일 정리`, `파일 검색`, `파일 찾아`, `파일 이동`, `파일 복사`, `파일 이름 변경`, `파일 삭제`, `폴더 정리`, `다운로드 폴더`, `디렉터리 목록`

## Catalog Metadata

Category: `filesystem`
Phase: `file-task`
Quality tier: `workflow-surface-gated`
Reasoning demand: `standard`

Quality bar:

- Name the user-facing workflow objective, required context, next action, and stop condition.
- Separate prepared guidance from observed platform, runtime, connector, file, memory, or delivery evidence.
- Expose missing tools, credentials, targets, or observations as user-visible gaps.

Required inputs:

- user request
- target context
- delivery or status expectation
- known missing evidence

Expected outputs:

- workspace_file_task_card/v1
- file_operation_scope/v1
- file_observation_manifest/v1 when observed
- file_confirmation_gate/v1 when destructive
- next action
- prepared-vs-observed boundary

Artifact expectations:

- workspace_file_task_card/v1 metadata-only wrapper card when prepared
- file_operation_scope/v1 with path root, allowed operations, excluded paths, and stop condition
- file_observation_manifest/v1 only when directory listings, file stats, hashes, diffs, or operation output are observed
- session_file_activity/v1 (`omh quality-evidence file-activity --hermes-session <id> --json`) cited in that manifest for which workspace files a Hermes session's read_file, write_file, and patch calls named and the outcome Hermes recorded; never as file-content, hash, diff, test, review, CI, or merge evidence
- file_confirmation_gate/v1 for delete, overwrite, move, rename, chmod, archive mutation, or irreversible cleanup

Safety rules:

- A workspace file operator card is not file read, file write, copy, move, rename, delete, archive, upload, download, permission change, or destructive filesystem evidence unless observed file-operation output records it.
- Do not claim connector, gateway, runtime, file generation, memory mutation, or host automation evidence from prepared guidance.

## Runtime Evidence

Use the current host's own tools and subagent/task mechanism when available;
otherwise run the same lanes sequentially or name the unavailable capability.
A prepared plan, handoff, checklist, or skill installation is not execution,
review, CI, merge-readiness, or merge evidence. Record actual tool results, or
`not_observed` / `not_available`, in the record; never invent dispatch or host
accounting.
Treat supplied context as advisory, not proof of hidden memory reads or writes.
State scope, constraints, verification, and the stop condition before work.
Reply in the user's own words and the host's own voice: the host's persona owns
reply language, tone, speech level, and sentence endings, progress updates
included (where it sets no language, use the one the user wrote in), and OMH
shapes structure and content only; OMH's record terms
(surface, lane, wrapper, handoff, evidence boundary, not_observed) stay in
records and tool calls, never in the sentence the user reads unless they ask
about one; and when a stop condition or a decision the user owns ends the turn,
offer the next action as a question rather than declaring what will not be done.
Supporting paths are relative to this skill directory; sibling skill paths are
relative to its parent. Resolve them from the host-provided skill base directory
(`{baseDir}` on hosts that provide it), never a hardcoded install location.
A named workflow not installed here is unavailable, not permission to emulate
its host-specific capabilities. Verify through the real surface before done.