hermes-yandex-disk

Your Yandex Disk, handed to the agent. It can walk the folders, read a file into the conversation, write the answer back, and give you a share link — without you opening a browser.

"Read me the March invoice in /Documents/Accounting." "Save these meeting notes to /Notes/2026/ and give me a link." "What's eating my Disk space? Move the old videos into /Archive." "Restore that file I deleted this morning."

• 🔒 YANDEX_DISK_ROOT sandboxes the agent to one folder — every path is checked against it, including ones the model invents and ones it copies back from an earlier result.
• 🛟 Nothing is overwritten or destroyed by accident — writes, copies and moves refuse an existing destination unless you pass overwrite, deletes go to the bin by default, and the bin can be restored from.
• 🎚 YANDEX_DISK_ACTIONS decides what the agent may do at all — a tool outside the allow-list is never registered, so it cannot be called or talked into being called.
• 📂 Fourteen tools over one credential — browse, read, write, upload, download, copy, move, share and restore, all through the REST API.
• 🔑 One OAuth token, nothing proxied — the plugin talks to cloud-api.yandex.net directly; no third-party service sees your files or your token.

Tested against Hermes 0.19.x, Python 3.11–3.13.

Quick start

# 1. Install the plugin into your Hermes environment
hermes plugins install akinfold/hermes-yandex-disk --enable

# 2. Add your token — issue one at https://yandex.ru/dev/disk/poligon/
#    (scopes: cloud_api:disk.info, cloud_api:disk.read, cloud_api:disk.write)
echo 'YANDEX_DISK_OAUTH_TOKEN=y0_your_token_here' >> ~/.hermes/.env

# 3. ~/.hermes/config.yaml
plugins:
  enabled: [yandex-disk]

Restart Hermes and ask it: "How much space is left on my Yandex Disk?"

Not ready to hand over write access? Add YANDEX_DISK_ACTIONS=read to ~/.hermes/.env and the agent gets a read-only Disk. See Choosing what the agent may do.

The tools

Tool	What it does
yadisk_disk_info	Quota, used and bin space, account login
yadisk_list	List a folder, or show one file's metadata
yadisk_read_file	Read a text file's contents into the conversation
yadisk_trash_list	What is in the bin, and where each item came from
yadisk_download	Save a file from the Disk to the local machine
yadisk_mkdir	Create a folder, parents included
yadisk_write_file	Create or replace a text file from the agent's own output
yadisk_upload	Upload a local file, or have Yandex fetch a public URL
yadisk_copy	Server-side copy — no bytes pass through your machine
yadisk_move	Move or rename
yadisk_trash_restore	Put something back where it was deleted from
yadisk_publish	Create or revoke a public share link
yadisk_delete	Delete to the bin, or permanently with permanently=true
yadisk_trash_empty	Destroy one bin item, or the whole bin

Every read result carries the path the write tools take as input, so the agent can chain them without guessing.

Configuration

Variable	Required	Default	Meaning
YANDEX_DISK_OAUTH_TOKEN	yes	—	OAuth token for the account (YANDEX_DISK_API_KEY is also accepted)
YANDEX_DISK_ACTIONS	no	all tools	Which tools get registered — see below
YANDEX_DISK_ROOT	no	whole disk	Confine every tool to this folder
YANDEX_DISK_MAX_READ_BYTES	no	1048576	Largest file yadisk_read_file will pull into context
YANDEX_DISK_MAX_DOWNLOAD_BYTES	no	268435456	Largest file yadisk_download will write locally
YANDEX_DISK_TIMEOUT	no	30	Per-request timeout, in seconds
YANDEX_DISK_BASE_URL	no	https://cloud-api.yandex.net/v1/disk	API base, for testing against a stub

Put them in ~/.hermes/.env — Hermes reads it in gateway and subprocess runs too — or export them in the environment.

Confining the agent to one folder

YANDEX_DISK_ROOT=/Hermes

Every path the agent gives is then interpreted relative to disk:/Hermes, and anything that resolves outside it — an absolute disk:/Private/..., a ../ climb, a path pasted from somewhere else — is refused before a request is made. Results are rewritten to hide the prefix, so the agent sees a disk whose root is that folder. The bin is filtered the same way: items deleted from outside the sandbox are neither listed nor restorable, and emptying the whole bin is refused, because the bin is shared with the rest of the account.

Choosing what the agent may do

YANDEX_DISK_ACTIONS=read,write      # no deleting, no sharing
YANDEX_DISK_ACTIONS=read            # a read-only Disk
YANDEX_DISK_ACTIONS=list,read_file  # exactly two tools

Group	Tools
read	disk_info, list, read_file, trash_list
download	download (writes to the local machine)
write	mkdir, write_file, upload, copy, move, trash_restore
share	publish
delete	delete, trash_empty
all	everything — the default when the variable is unset

Groups and individual tool names mix freely, with or without the yadisk_ prefix, so you can paste straight from the tool table above. A name that matches nothing is dropped: a typo can only ever withhold a tool, never grant one, and a value naming nothing valid registers nothing at all. Filtering happens when the plugin loads, so restart Hermes after changing it.

Getting the credential

1. Open https://yandex.ru/dev/disk/poligon/ signed in as the account you want the agent to use, and issue a debug token — the fastest route, and what it gives you is an ordinary OAuth token.
2. For a long-lived setup, register an app at https://oauth.yandex.ru/ with the scopes cloud_api:disk.info, cloud_api:disk.read and cloud_api:disk.write, then run the usual OAuth flow.

Yandex Disk is free up to 5 GB and the API costs nothing to use. The token is the only credential needed — see Why REST and not WebDAV for why there is no app password to store.

Installing

A. From Git (recommended)

hermes plugins install akinfold/hermes-yandex-disk --enable

B. From PyPI — discovered through the hermes_agent.plugins entry point:

pip install hermes-yandex-disk

Then add yandex-disk to plugins.enabled in ~/.hermes/config.yaml.

C. Drop-in — unzip hermes-yandex-disk-plugin-<version>.zip from a release under ~/.hermes/plugins/ so you get ~/.hermes/plugins/yandex-disk/plugin.yaml, then enable it the same way.

Why REST and not WebDAV

Yandex Disk exposes both a REST API and a WebDAV endpoint. This plugin is REST-only, because WebDAV covers strictly less: no bin, no public links, and no reporting for the deferred operations that large folder copies and deletes turn into. rclone's Yandex backend made the same call. The one thing WebDAV adds — an app-password login — is not worth a second stored credential for capabilities the REST API already has.

Development

python -m venv .venv && . .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e '.[dev]'

pytest --cov=hermes_yandex_disk --cov-report=term-missing   # unit tests, no network
ruff check . && ruff format --check .
radon cc -s -n C hermes_yandex_disk                         # must print nothing

Running the live E2E tests

These create, publish and permanently delete real files. Use a throwaway Yandex account. Everything is confined to one hermes-e2e-<id> folder that is destroyed in teardown.

Locally, put the token in ~/.yandex-disk-oauth (and optionally the login in ~/.yandex-disk-login) and run:

pytest -m e2e -v

The suite skips itself when no credentials are available. On GitHub Actions, run the E2E (live) workflow manually; it reads YANDEX_DISK_OAUTH_TOKEN from the yandex-disk-e2e environment.

Related Hermes plugins

Part of a family of Yandex plugins for Hermes Agent:

• hermes-yandex-mail — search, read, flag, move, and delete Yandex Mail messages (IMAP).
• hermes-yandex-calendar — list, create, update, respond to, move, and delete Yandex Calendar events (CalDAV).
• hermes-yandex-search-api — Yandex web search backend and generative, cited answers for Hermes (Yandex Search API).

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md. Please report security issues privately rather than as a public issue.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.