Skills
THE SKILL LAYERHermes learns your projects, auto-generates skills from experience, and never forgets how it solved a problem. A skill is a small written procedure the agent loads when it is relevant. It is written down, so you can read it, edit it or delete it.
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Below: skill collections and skill-building repos from the verified index.

$200 and 30 skills later — training Hermes as a personal analyst
defi0xjeff.substack.com

A maternal-fetal medicine specialist runs clinical documentation through 94 skills
"I have a Telegram bot that knows my clinical practice, my content voice, my theology writing, and my codebase. … Clinical documentation. The highest-value cluster. These are the skills t…

A real service business ran lead to payment over Telegram, owner approving each step
"We stood up a real service business and ran it end-to-end over Telegram: leads came in, estimates went out, the owner approved them, Stripe collected payment, QuickBooks stayed reconcile…
After a 15-tool-call monitoring pipeline, Hermes wrote the skill unprompted
blog.stackademic.com

Auto-transcribe Meet calls, control from Teams, local models for client data
Julian Goldie (Substack) · 2026-04-30 — "Auto-transcribe Google Meet calls — focus on conversation, not notes. Self-maintaining skill library. Control from Microsoft Teams. Local AI models via LM Studio — sensitive client data …

awesome-hermes-agent: community-curated skills list
Independent directory of skills, plugins, memory providers, tools, surfaces, guides for Hermes Agent; the biggest hub in the ecosystem (5,843)

botmaker (techjanitor)
A Hermes skill + SOUL for a bot whose only job is minting other specialist bots (interview → SOUL draft → human sign-off → scaffold → certification → vault docs)

Build-vs-adopt hardware evaluation of Hermes Agent (WSL sandbox, local 12B/20B models)
Developer who was hand-building a resident agent (memory/skills/cron/Telegram/local LLM) tested Hermes on real hardware in a disposable WSL distro: 5 functional tests (tool calls, persistent memory, auto-skill generation, subagent delegation, natural-language scheduling) + 7-axis scoring on local Gemma 4 12B vs...

chinese-erotic-fiction-writing (xWebt)
Chinese adult-fiction writing toolkit skill: requirement survey + writing norms + batch expansion engineering

cinema-manager (DavidBB-L)
Hermes skill for personal media-library management: multi-source content discovery, Quark cloud-drive auto-save, genre auto-organization

Create and edit Google Slides decks
"Extending google-workspace skill to Google Slides so Hermes can create and edit presentations for users already in Google Workspace."

Cybermes (Zyrexnn)
Autonomous offensive-security / bug-bounty / red-team framework powered by Hermes Agent with specialized reasoning skills and multi-model LLM orchestration (v3.3.0)
friends-family-agent-starter (drachonius348785654)
Sanitized starter pack for a fresh Omarchy + herdr + Hermes setup: agent rules, layered memory, tool-agnostic skills, four subagent roles

Generative visuals in TouchDesigner, via Hermes skill
github.com

Hermes + Browser Harness on a Hostinger VPS
davidondrej (GitHub Gist) · 2026 — "Full copy-paste setup for Hermes Agent + Browser Harness on a Hostinger VPS. Register Browser Harness as a Hermes skill via symlink so Hermes can find and use it. Recommended model: anth…
Hermes + Milvus 2.6 + 飞书 (Feishu) personal knowledge-base agent
Built a semantic, cross-session knowledge-base agent: Hermes Agent + Milvus 2.6 hybrid search (vector + BM25/RRF) + Feishu bot; the Learning Loop auto-created 3 skills (e.g. `hybrid-search-doc-qa`, `milvus-docs-ingest-verification`, `terminal`) from real cross-session usage.
hermes-founder-os (wolulabs)
Modular skill pack for founder workflows: idea validation, PRD, architecture review, implementation planning, UX review, growth, launch
hermes-ryzeapi (NeritonDias)
Community RyzeAPI plugin for Hermes Agent: WhatsApp channel + web panel + firewall + two integrated skills (EN + PT-BR)

hermes-socmed-function (fajrisilmi12-cyber)
Custom Hermes skills for AI image generation (9Router) + multi-platform social posting (Zernio + Cloudinary) + IG scheduling workflow
hermes-startup-architect (dlkakbs)
Permanent Hermes skill turning a startup idea into an 8-asset investor-ready kit (market analysis, competitor map, pitch deck, roadmap, Tailwind landing page); built for Hermes Hackathon 2026
lyric-video-director (ShadoW-Shinigami)
Production-grade Hermes skill directing typography-led lyric videos (GPT Image 2 design → Gemini Omni Flash animation → deterministic exact-text QC)

mycodo-hermes-skill (setasoma)
Autonomous mushroom-cultivation manager: Hermes skill with phase-aware decision engine over Mycodo sensors + InfluxDB on a Raspberry Pi; tested over two real Lion's Mane grow cycles
oh-my-hermes-for-legal-researcher (charliehotel)
US legal-research methodology (statute/regulation/case law) ported from Anthropic's claude-for-legal into a Hermes skill; zero deps, no API keys
petasos-finance-vault (nhutdm)
Household-finance skill: Obsidian vault + append-only JSONL ledger + pluggable bank-email adapters + verification gates + month close