| name | air-shoes |
| description | Use Air Shoes when Hermes needs to traverse, inspect, or plan across fragile, hostile, or low-trust terrain without binding the whole move to local surface hazards. |
Air Shoes
Move across bad terrain without letting every damaged panel dictate the route.
Overview
Use Air Shoes when Hermes needs to traverse, inspect, or plan across fragile, hostile, or low-trust terrain without binding the whole move to local surface hazards.
This is the secondary Codex compatibility rendering of a hybrid battle-chip pattern with a shipping-now execution model.
Canonical chip family: Air Shoes
Codex shelf: Control and Terrain
Provider target: Codex compatibility surface.
When To Use
- The field is full of brittle panels, broken local state, or side-effect traps that should not control the whole approach.
- You need safe traversal, inspection, or planning across a messy surface before choosing where to land.
- A detached, low-coupling pass is better than stepping directly onto every unstable dependency, file, or workflow edge.
Workflow
- Name the hazardous terrain Hermes should avoid touching directly.
- Traverse the field in the lightest viable mode: read-only, detached, simulated, or otherwise low-coupling.
- Pick the safe landing panel where direct action should resume, and call out what hazards were bypassed rather than solved.
Deliverables
- A low-coupling traversal, inspection path, or execution plan that crosses hostile terrain without triggering unnecessary surface effects.
- A short note identifying which terrain hazards were bypassed, which still remain, and where Hermes should land next.
Guardrails
- Air Shoes bypasses terrain friction; it does not repair the terrain itself.
- Do not claim immunity to hazards Hermes did not actually isolate, simulate, or route around.
- If the job requires changing the bad panels directly, land and switch chips instead of hovering forever.
Default Invocation
Use Air Shoes to cross the current problem in a low-coupling way: avoid unnecessary contact with hazardous terrain, name what was bypassed, and identify the safe landing point where direct action should resume.
