54 results for “skills”
- Does Hermes write its own skills or plugins, and how do I make it save a lesson reliably?FAQ · Skills, plugins & MCPYes. With its `skill_manage` tool the agent creates, updates and deletes skills, for example after working out a multi-step workflow, finding a fix after dead ends, or being…
- How do I find, choose and install skills and plugins?FAQ · Skills, plugins & MCPSkills: use `hermes skills browse` or `hermes skills search <query>`, preview with `hermes skills inspect <id>`, then `hermes skills install <id>`, which runs a security scan…
- How many skills, tools and plugins can I add before performance suffers?FAQ · Skills, plugins & MCPSkills scale well. The agent sees only a short index of names and descriptions and loads a skill's full instructions when it needs one, so hundreds of installed skills cost little.
- What are skills?FAQ · Skills, plugins & MCPSkills are on-demand instruction documents, each a folder with a SKILL.md file, that teach the agent how to do a particular task. They follow the agentskills.io open standard.…
- Where are skills stored?FAQ · Skills, plugins & MCPAll skills live in ~/.hermes/skills/. Bundled skills are copied there on install, and hub-installed and agent-created skills land there too. You can also point Hermes at extra…
- Why don’t all my skills show up in Telegram’s command menu?FAQ · Skills, plugins & MCPTelegram allows at most 100 bot commands and also limits the menu's total payload size, so a long skill list can overflow it. Run `hermes skills config` to disable skills per…
- How can I tell if a third-party skill or plugin is safe before installing it?FAQ · Security & permissionsCheck where it comes from. Skills: built-in and `official/...` skills are fully trusted, a few well-known registries are "trusted", and everything else is community. Every hub…
- How do I make Hermes use a specific skill or tool instead of its default?FAQ · Skills, plugins & MCPFor a skill, call it directly: every installed skill is a slash command (`/<skill-name>`, or `/skill <name>`), which loads it for that message. Naming it in your request also…
- Can Hermes have its own email inbox?FAQ · Messaging & the gatewayYes. The docs walk through giving the agent a dedicated mailbox with the bundled Himalaya email skill, which drives the `himalaya` CLI over IMAP and SMTP so the agent can read,…
- Can Hermes set itself up and configure things for me?FAQ · Getting startedLargely, yes. Describe what you want in chat and it can create scheduled jobs, install and write skills, and walk you through connections such as Google Workspace, whose setup…
- Can Hermes work with an Obsidian vault or my own markdown notes?FAQ · Research & knowledge workYes. The bundled Obsidian skill lets the agent read, search, create and edit notes and add wikilinks. Set `OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH` in your `.env` to the vault's folder (otherwise…
- Can Hermes work with Gmail or Outlook, and how do I connect email safely?FAQ · Messaging & the gatewayThere are a few routes. The bundled Google Workspace skill covers Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Sheets and Docs through your own Google OAuth app; ask Hermes to set it up and it…
- Can I run more than one agent on the same machine?FAQ · Running & deployingYes, with profiles. Each profile is a separate Hermes home with its own config, keys, memory, sessions, skills and cron jobs. hermes profile create coder creates one and also…
- Desktop app, CLI, TUI, web dashboard or chat apps: which interface should I use?FAQ · Getting startedThey are all front ends to the same agent, with the same config, keys, memory, skills and session history, so you can start a session in one and resume it in another. Pick by…
- Do profiles share memory, and can two agents share the same memory?FAQ · Memory & contextNo, not by default. Each profile has its own memory, sessions and skills, and the docs warn against running two agents on one profile or Hermes home: both write memory…
- How can I keep token costs down?FAQ · Models, providers & costFirst find out what's expensive. `/context` breaks down what fills each request (system prompt, tool schemas, skills, MCP, memory, conversation), `hermes prompt-size` shows the…
- How do I back up my Hermes setup?FAQ · Running & deployingRun `hermes backup`. It writes `~/hermes-backup-<timestamp>.zip` with your config, credentials, memories, skills, sessions and profiles, and it's safe to run while Hermes is…
- How do I let family members or coworkers use my agent while keeping their data separate?FAQ · Security & permissionsGive each person their own profile (`hermes profile create <name>`). A profile has its own memory, sessions, skills, keys and cron jobs, and each gets its own messaging bot,…
- How do I move Hermes, or a single profile or bot, to another computer?FAQ · Running & deployingFor a whole setup, run `hermes backup` on the old machine. It creates `~/hermes-backup-<timestamp>.zip` with config, credentials, memories, skills, sessions and profiles (not…
- How do I update Hermes Agent and the Desktop app?FAQ · Getting startedFor a normal installer-based (source) install, run `hermes update`. It moves you to the latest published stable release, refreshes dependencies, syncs bundled skills to every…