Files and batch sends

Ask about a file

Tap the paperclip in the chat box, or + and then Add a file or Add a photo. On a Mac you can also drop a file anywhere on the window (“Drop to attach”). One file per message.

Hermit reads the file on your device before anything else happens:

File	What Hermit reads
Text, Markdown, CSV, JSON, code	The text as it is.
Spreadsheets (.xlsx)	Every sheet, cell by cell.
PDFs	The text. Scanned pages are read with text recognition.
Photos and screenshots	The text in them, like a receipt or a table.

While it reads, the chip says “Reading invoice.pdf”. Then it shows what it found, like “12 KB, spreadsheet, 48 rows”. The text goes to the model with your question. In On-device mode it never leaves your device. In Private Cloud it goes to the enclave like anything else you type.

You type

What's the total on this invoice, and when is it due?

You see

The total and the due date, read from the PDF you attached.

A long file is cut to fit, and Hermit is told how much it got (“the first 140 of 600 lines”). Hermit doesn’t describe pictures yet. A photo with no text in it gets “I didn’t find any text in Photo.jpg.”

Note

An address inside a file never counts as one you typed. The assistant won’t send to it unless you type it yourself or use a batch send, below. Prompt injection explains why.

Pay a list in one review

If a file has a column of addresses and amounts, Hermit can pay all of them in one review.

1. Attach a CSV or .xlsx with one address and one amount per row.
2. Say what to send and where, for example “pay everyone in USDC on Base”. Use “25 USDC each” if the file has no amounts.
3. Hermit reads the rows itself (the model never retypes them) and checks every address, the total, your balance and the network fees.
4. Tap Review batch send. The review lists every recipient, the total, the fees, the checks, and any row left out and why.
5. Tap Approve and send and confirm once with Face ID (Touch ID on a Mac). The transfers go out one after another.

You type

Pay everyone in USDC on Base

You see

• Reading 48 rows from payroll.csv…
• Checking every address and your balance…

“payroll.csv has 48 recipients, 2,400 USDC in total on Base. Review the list below.” Then a Review batch send button.

If you don’t name the token or the network, Hermit asks. You can answer with just “on Base”.

Every row gets its own status in the review and on the card in chat. It goes from “Ready” to “Sent, confirming” to “Sent”, with a link to its transaction, or to “Failed” with the reason. A row the chain rejects is marked failed and the rest carry on. If sending stops partway, the button becomes Resume, 12 left.

Batch sends work on EVM networks, up to 200 recipients. Rows with a bad address, a wrong checksum, a duplicate or a missing amount are left out, and the review shows them. A list read from a photo is held to the checksum rule too, since text recognition can misread a character.

Mainnet

It’s mainnet: a batch is many real sends. Your daily limit counts the whole batch, and first-time addresses get a warning.

The Files page

Files (in the account menu at the bottom of the sidebar) keeps files you add, copied into Hermit on this device. You can search, filter by Docs, PDFs, Tables or Images, and open them in the viewer. Right-click or long-press a file for Ask Hermit about it, which starts a chat with the file attached.