hades-coding-workflows

Hades Coding Workflows

A collection of Hermes Agent coding workflow skills — structured patterns for
planning, delegating, and implementing software tasks through subagents.

These skills encode patterns inspired by Fable's fan-out delegation approach,
adapted for Hermes Agent's delegate_task system. Originally iterated between
DeepSeek and Sol to arrive at the current structure.

Skills

dual-model-harness

Three-stage coding harness: design → implement → verify. Routes design and
verification to the main agent (DeepSeek V4 Flash) while delegating isolated
implementation tasks to a faster coding model (DeepSeek V4 Pro). Documents the
practical lesson that delegation overhead often outweighs its benefit for
serial multi-file work — use it only for genuinely parallel sub-tasks.

Includes a reference on GLM 5.2 / Z.AI provider quirks
— specifically the thinking-mode default bug that caused 35s response times
until patched.

subagent-driven-development

Execute implementation plans by dispatching fresh delegate_task subagents per
task with systematic two-stage review: spec compliance first, code quality
second. Each subagent gets clean context. Reviews catch issues before they
compound across tasks.

Includes references on context budget discipline
and gates taxonomy,
both adapted from the GSD project by Lex Christopherson.

writing-plans

Write comprehensive implementation plans with bite-sized tasks (2-5 minutes
each), exact file paths, complete code examples, verification commands, and
expected output. Designed to pair with subagent-driven-development for
execution. DRY, YAGNI, TDD, frequent commits.

Includes a reference on the server action result pattern
for Next.js — a discriminated union approach to distinguish "empty results"
from "database error."

Installation

As a Hermes Plugin (recommended)

# 1. Install the plugin
hermes plugins install singhguri/hades-coding-workflows --enable

# 2. Restart gateway (if running)
hermes gateway restart

Restart your session (or start a new one). Skills are available as:

skill_view("hades-coding-workflows:dual-model-harness")
skill_view("hades-coding-workflows:subagent-driven-development")
skill_view("hades-coding-workflows:writing-plans")

Check plugin loaded:

/plugins

As standalone skills

Clone and symlink individual skills into your Hermes skills directory:

git clone https://github.com/singhguri/hades-coding-workflows ~/hades-coding-workflows
ln -s ~/hades-coding-workflows/skills/dual-model-harness ~/.hermes/skills/
ln -s ~/hades-coding-workflows/skills/subagent-driven-development ~/.hermes/skills/
ln -s ~/hades-coding-workflows/skills/writing-plans ~/.hermes/skills/

Then load with /skill dual-model-harness or hermes -s dual-model-harness.

FloorIsGround/skills — the
fan-out-delegation and ai-coding-agent-workflows skills that inspired parts
of this collection
obra/superpowers — original
superpowers skill format that subagent-driven-development and writing-plans
are adapted from

License

MIT

README from the reviewed commit b68546d; it updates when the author re-pins.