Your first spatial query

The configuration works by pairing skills (what the agent knows about your data) with tools (how it fetches that data). Here is the whole loop.

Write a skill

Skills are markdown in ~/.hermes/skills/gis/. This one teaches the agent how your zoning layer is laid out:

# Zoning lookups

The zoning layer is `Zoning/FeatureServer/2`. The district code field is
`ZONE_CODE`; height limits are `HEIGHT_LIMIT` (feet). For anything
address-based, use the `esri.query_features` tool with an
`intersects(...)` clause. Always cite the district code in the answer.

Ask a question

hermes
› which zoning district covers 1234 J Street?

What happens

The skill tells the agent which layer and field to use, so it emits a single tool call:

<tool_call>
{"name": "esri.query_features",
 "arguments": {"layer": "Zoning/2",
               "where": "intersects('1234 J Street')"}}
</tool_call>

The esri tool runs the query with your ArcGIS token, returns the matching feature, and the agent answers, citing ZONE_CODE because the skill said to.