# Loaded Skills Indicator: Hermes Agent plugin

> Status-bar chip, popover and dockable pane showing which skills are read into the active Hermes Desktop conversation's context: full bodies bold with an accent dot, compression-pruned ones ghosted, never-loaded ones…

Canonical: https://hermeswatcher.com/plugins/loaded-skills-indicator  
Tier: Community  
Official page (Nous Research): https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins/loaded-skills-indicator  
Last updated in catalog: 2026-10-25

Status-bar chip, popover and dockable pane showing which skills are read into the active Hermes Desktop conversation's context: full bodies bold with an accent dot, compression-pruned ones ghosted, never-loaded ones not listed. A second pane view lists the whole skill library grouped by category with descriptions and a loaded marker, and clicking a skill drops /<skill> into the composer for you to send (it never submits). A small local backend reads the profile's state.db read-only to tell a live skill body from a [SKILL_PRUNED] marker, and reads SKILL.md frontmatter for the descriptions. No network calls, no credentials, no telemetry, no writes.

## Good to know before installing

The local backend opens state.db read-only for the requested session in this profile, the default root and, as a fallback, every other profile's state.db, and returns only skill names and load state; it reads SKILL.md frontmatter under the Hermes skill directories and makes no network calls or writes.

From the plugin's catalog listing.

## How to install

1. Install it. Hermes asks for any API keys it needs, then asks whether to turn it on.

```bash
hermes plugins install loaded-skills-indicator
```

2. Said no? Turn it on later:

```bash
hermes plugins enable loaded-skills-indicator
```

3. Restart Hermes so it loads the plugin.

Some plugins also need a sign-in or settings: see the official page. Memory plugins ask whether to become your memory provider instead. Steps follow the official plugins guide: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/plugins

## Facts

- Category: Cost, speed & monitoring, Hermes Desktop add-ons
- Maintained by: yugasurfer (Community)
- Needs: No API keys declared
- Requires Hermes: `>=0.22.5`
- Version: 1.0.0
- In the catalog since: 2026-10-25

## Links

- [Full setup and settings (official page)](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins/loaded-skills-indicator)
- [Source code](https://github.com/yugasurfer/loaded-skills-indicator#readme)
- [All plugins](https://hermeswatcher.com/plugins.md)

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