Optional Skills Catalog
Optional skills ship with hermes-agent under optional-skills/ but are not active by default. Install them explicitly:
hermes skills install official/<category>/<skill>
For example:
hermes skills install official/blockchain/solana
hermes skills install official/mlops/flash-attention
Each skill below links to a dedicated page with its full definition, setup, and usage.
To uninstall:
hermes skills uninstall <skill-name>
autonomous-ai-agents
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| agent-merge-conflict-arbiter | Neutral arbiter for merge conflicts between two agents. |
| antigravity-cli | Operate the Antigravity CLI (agy): plugins, auth, sandbox. |
| blackbox | Delegate coding tasks to the Blackbox AI multi-model CLI. |
| dynamic-workflow | Plan-in-code fan-outs, adversarial verification, waves. |
| grok | Delegate coding to xAI Grok Build CLI (features, PRs). |
| honcho | Configure and troubleshoot Honcho memory for Hermes. |
| opencode | Delegate coding to OpenCode CLI (features, PR review). |
| openhands | Delegate coding to OpenHands CLI (model-agnostic, LiteLLM). |
blockchain
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| evm | Read-only EVM client: wallets, tokens, gas across 8 chains. |
| hyperliquid | Hyperliquid market data, account history, trade review. |
| solana | Query Solana wallets, tokens, txs, and NFTs in USD. |
communication
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| one-three-one-rule | 1-3-1 decision briefs: problem, three options, one pick. |
creative
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| ai-presenter-video | Make a verified AI presenter video from script + image. |
| anatomy | Explain an idea as an interactive isometric machine figure. |
| archify | Validated interactive HTML diagrams, upstream-maintained. |
| ascii-art | ASCII art: pyfiglet, cowsay, boxes, image-to-ascii. |
| auteur | Design and build cinematic, award-level web pages. |
| baoyu-article-illustrator | Article illustrations: type × style × palette consistency. |
| baoyu-comic | Knowledge comics (知识漫画): educational, biography, tutorial. |
| brag | Project launch video via Hyperframes, upstream-maintained. |
| brag-slim | Launch video from a project or URL, upstream-maintained. |
| comfyui | Generate images, video, and audio via diffusion workflows. |
| concept-diagrams | Generate flat, minimal educational SVG visuals as HTML. |
| creative-ideation | Generate ideas via named methods from creative practice. |
| design-md | Author/validate/export Google's DESIGN.md token spec files. |
| draw-your-font | Turn a handwriting photo into an installable TTF font. |
| dream-loop | Build stunning 3D scenes via a concept-art fidelity loop. |
| excalidraw | Hand-drawn Excalidraw JSON diagrams (arch, flow, seq). |
| heartmula | HeartMuLa: Suno-like song generation from lyrics + tags. |
| hyperframes | Render MP4/WebM videos from HTML compositions. |
| impeccable | Frontend design guidance, upstream-maintained (impeccable). |
| ip-as-logo | Design minimal cute IP mascot marks readable at 32px. |
| kanban-video-orchestrator | Plan and run multi-agent video production pipelines. |
| meme-generation | Create meme PNGs from templates with Pillow text overlay. |
| mono-color | Generate one- or two-ink editorial print poster images. |
| pixel-art | Pixel art w/ era palettes (NES, Game Boy, PICO-8). |
| pretext | Build creative browser demos with DOM-free text layout. |
| simple-english | Rewrite text to ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English. |
| sketch | Throwaway HTML mockups: 2-3 design variants to compare. |
| social-media-content-calendar | Plan multi-platform social campaigns: briefs to posting. |
| system-atlas | Build explorable isometric architecture atlases as HTML. |
| tldraw-offline | Drive and script tldraw offline canvases with an agent. |
| unreal-mcp | Automate Unreal Engine editor scenes, actors, and renders. |
data-science
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| jupyter-notebook | Iterative Python via live Jupyter kernel (hamelnb). |
devops
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| actual-setup | Set up Actual Computer (actual.inc) inference in Hermes. |
| docker-management | Manage Docker containers, images, volumes, and Compose. |
| hermes-s6-container-supervision | Modify or debug s6 services in the Hermes Docker image. |
| inference-sh-cli | Run 150+ AI apps (image, video, LLM) via inference.sh CLI. |
| pinggy-tunnel | Zero-install localhost tunnels over SSH via Pinggy. |
| setup-wizard-generator | Generate a bash wizard guiding a human through manual setup. |
| watchers | Poll RSS, JSON APIs, and GitHub with watermark dedup. |
dogfood
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| adversarial-ux-test | Roleplay a hostile user to find and triage UX pain points. |
email
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| agentmail | Use when an agent needs AgentMail CLI email inboxes. |
finance
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| 3-statement-model | Build integrated IS/BS/CF financial workbooks in Excel. |
| comps-analysis | Build comparable-company valuation workbooks in Excel. |
| dcf-model | Build discounted cash flow valuation workbooks in Excel. |
| excel-author | Build auditable financial workbooks headless via openpyxl. |
| lbo-model | Build leveraged buyout workbooks with IRR/MOIC in Excel. |
| merger-model | Build M&A accretion/dilution workbooks in Excel. |
| polymarket | Query Polymarket: markets, prices, orderbooks, history. |
| pptx-author | Build PowerPoint decks headless with python-pptx. |
| stocks | Stock quotes, history, search, compare, crypto via Yahoo. |
gaming
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| minecraft-modpack-server | Host modded Minecraft servers (CurseForge, Modrinth). |
| pokemon-player | Play Pokemon via headless emulator + RAM reads. |
health
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| fitness-nutrition | Workout planning, macros, and body metrics via wger/USDA. |
| neuroskill-bci | Use live BCI cognitive and mood state from NeuroSkill. |
mcp
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| fastmcp | Build, test, and deploy Python MCP servers. |
| mcp-oauth-remote-gateway | Manual OAuth for remote MCP servers on headless gateways. |
| mcporter | List, auth, and call MCP servers/tools from the terminal. |
media
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| gif-search | Search/download GIFs from Tenor via curl + jq. |
| songsee | Audio spectrograms/features (mel, chroma, MFCC) via CLI. |
mlops
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| accelerate | Run PyTorch training across GPUs with minimal changes. |
| axolotl | Axolotl: YAML LLM fine-tuning (LoRA, DPO, GRPO). |
| chroma | Embedding database for RAG and semantic search. |
| dspy | DSPy: declarative LM programs, auto-optimize prompts, RAG. |
| evaluating-llms-harness | lm-eval-harness: benchmark LLMs (MMLU, GSM8K, etc.). |
| faiss | Fast vector similarity search at billion scale. |
| flash-attention | Speed up long-sequence transformer training and inference. |
| lambda-labs | On-demand GPU cloud instances for ML training. |
| llama-cpp | llama.cpp local GGUF inference + HF Hub model discovery. |
| modal | Serverless GPU cloud for ML jobs and model APIs. |
| nemo-curator | Curate LLM training data: dedupe, filter, PII redaction. |
| obliteratus | OBLITERATUS: abliterate LLM refusals (diff-in-means). |
| peft | Fine-tune large LLMs with LoRA on limited GPU memory. |
| pytorch-fsdp | Fully sharded data-parallel training for large models. |
| pytorch-lightning | Clean training loops with built-in distributed support. |
| saelens | Train sparse autoencoders to interpret model features. |
| segment-anything-model | SAM: zero-shot image segmentation via points, boxes, masks. |
| serving-llms-vllm | vLLM: high-throughput LLM serving, OpenAI API, quantization. |
| simpo | Reference-free preference alignment, simpler than DPO. |
| slime | RL post-training for LLMs with Megatron and SGLang. |
| tensorrt-llm | High-throughput LLM inference on NVIDIA GPUs. |
| torchtitan | Pretrain LLMs at scale with PyTorch 4D parallelism. |
| unsloth | Unsloth: 2-5x faster LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning, less VRAM. |
payments
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| mpp-agent | Pay HTTP 402 APIs via Machine Payments Protocol (MPP). |
| stripe-link-cli | Agent payments via Stripe Link — cards, SPT, approvals. |
| stripe-projects | Provision SaaS services + sync creds via Stripe Projects. |
productivity
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| airtable | Airtable REST API via curl. Records CRUD, filters, upserts. |
| box | Box manages cloud files, sharing, search, and metadata. |
| canvas | Fetch Canvas LMS courses and assignments via API token. |
| decision-questionnaire | Turn an unanswerable decision into a questionnaire doc. |
| here-now | Publish sites to {slug}.here.now and store files in Drives. |
| live-dashboard | Build self-updating dashboards from live sources. |
| memento-flashcards | Spaced-repetition flashcards: create, review, quiz, export. |
| notion | Notion API + ntn CLI: pages, databases, markdown, Workers. |
| property-listings | Present property and rental listings as desktop cards. |
| shop | Shop catalog search, checkout, order tracking, returns. |
| shopify | Query Shopify Admin/Storefront GraphQL APIs via curl. |
| siyuan | Query and edit a SiYuan knowledge base via its API. |
| telephony | Provision Twilio numbers, SMS/MMS, and AI outbound calls. |
research
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| bioinformatics | Gateway to 400+ genomics and computational biology skills. |
| blogwatcher | Monitor blogs and RSS/Atom feeds via blogwatcher-cli tool. |
| darwinian-evolver | Evolve prompts/regex/SQL/code with Imbue's evolution loop. |
| domain-intel | Passive recon of subdomains, SSL certs, WHOIS, and DNS. |
| drug-discovery | Drug discovery: ChEMBL search, drug-likeness, interactions. |
| duckduckgo-search | Free keyless web, news, and image search via ddgs. |
| gitnexus-explorer | Serve an interactive codebase knowledge graph web UI. |
| llm-wiki | Karpathy's LLM Wiki: build/query interlinked markdown KB. |
| osint-investigation | Follow the money via public records and sanctions data. |
| parallel-cli | Agent-native web search, deep research, and enrichment. |
| qmd | Hybrid local search over notes, docs, and transcripts. |
| research-paper-writing | Write ML papers for NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR: design→submit. |
| rss-feeds | Read RSS, Atom, JSON feeds; discover feeds behind a page. |
| scrapling | Scrape sites with stealth browsing and Cloudflare bypass. |
| searxng-search | Free keyless meta-search aggregating 70+ engines. |
security
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| 1password | Set up op CLI, sign in, and read or inject secrets. |
| godmode | Jailbreak LLMs: Parseltongue, GODMODE, ULTRAPLINIAN. |
| oss-forensics | GitHub supply-chain forensics: recovery, IOCs, reporting. |
| sherlock | Find accounts for a username across 400+ platforms. |
| unbroker | Remove your info from data-broker sites, by name or phone. |
| web-pentest | Authorized web pentest: recon, proof-based exploits, report. |
smart-home
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| openhue | Control Philips Hue lights, scenes, rooms via OpenHue CLI. |
social-media
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| reddit-reading | Read Reddit: subreddits, search, threads, users. No browser. |
software-development
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| ast-grep | AST-aware structural code search and rewrite via ast-grep. |
| code-wiki | Generate wiki docs + Mermaid diagrams for any codebase. |
| grill-me | Adversarial plan interview before implementation. |
| hermes-agent-skill-authoring | Author in-repo SKILL.md files: frontmatter and structure. |
| inspecting-hermes-desktop-dom | Read the live Hermes desktop DOM/CSS over CDP. |
| node-inspect-debugger | Debug Node.js via --inspect + Chrome DevTools Protocol CLI. |
| pr-lens | Draw code changes as animated architecture/data-flow SVGs. |
| python-debugpy | Debug Python: pdb REPL + debugpy remote (DAP). |
| rest-graphql-debug | Debug REST/GraphQL APIs: status codes, auth, schemas, repro. |
| subagent-driven-development | Execute plans via delegate_task subagents (2-stage review). |
web-development
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| cloudflare-temporary-deploy | Deploy a Worker live, no account, via wrangler --temporary. |
| har-derived-api-client | Record a site's XHR into a HAR, derive an HTTP client. |
| page-agent | Embed an in-page natural-language GUI copilot in web apps. |
| publish-site | Versioned site deploys to GitHub/Cloudflare/Netlify Pages. |
| scrollcraft | Premium scroll-driven landing pages; scroll = timeline. |
yuanbao
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| yuanbao | Yuanbao (元宝) groups: @mention users, query info/members. |
Contributing Optional Skills
To add a new optional skill to the repository:
- Create a directory under
optional-skills/<category>/<skill-name>/ - Add a
SKILL.mdwith standard frontmatter (name, description, version, author) - Include any supporting files in
references/,templates/, orscripts/subdirectories - Submit a pull request — the skill will appear in this catalog and get its own docs page once merged