372 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…
- A three-person software house uses Hermes skills to fill its sales and marketing gapsCase study · Business operationsHalfbit Studio, a three-person software house with no sales or marketing staff, describes using Hermes for competitor analysis, lead research, outreach coaching and event scouting, with each workflow saved as a reusable skill. It shows a small team turning one-off research prompts into repeatable procedures that hold company knowledge.
- Running a small service business from lead to payment with owner-approved skillsCase study · Business operationsA hackathon team published 16 Hermes skills that they report used to run a real owner-operated service business over Telegram, from quoting through payment links and bookkeeping. Every step involving money, customers or accounts was set up as draft, owner approval, then execution.
- Thirty skills in, three kept: a crypto investor's personal analyst setupCase study · Research & knowledge workA DeFi investor reports spending roughly $150-200 in tokens over two weeks experimenting with about 30 Hermes skills, and narrowing down to three that earned their place: a morning X briefing, a bookmark digest, and a daily reflection built on an external memory provider.
- 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…
- Skills HubGlossaryThe browsable catalog of installable skills from official, skills.sh, GitHub and other sources, managed with hermes skills browse, search and install.
- Hermes Agent not using your skillTroubleshooting · Skills, plugins & MCPWhat to check when Hermes ignores a skill you wrote or installed, from file location and frontmatter to platform filters, trust and session timing.
- How to write your first Hermes Agent skillGuide · Skills, plugins & MCPA step-by-step walkthrough of creating a SKILL.md, where to put it, how Hermes discovers and loads it, and how to keep agent-written skills under review.
- hermes-agent-skill-authoringSkill · Skills directoryAuthor in-repo SKILL.md files: frontmatter and structure.
- neuroskill-bciSkill · Skills directoryUse live BCI cognitive and mood state from NeuroSkill.
- SkillGlossaryA folder with a SKILL.md file containing on-demand instructions for a task, compatible with the agentskills.io standard. Skills live in ~/.hermes/skills/ and work as slash commands.
- skill_manageGlossaryThe tool the agent uses to create, update and delete its own skills. The docs call this its procedural memory.
- SKILL.mdGlossaryThe required main file of a skill, holding its name, description and step-by-step instructions. It can be accompanied by references, templates, scripts and assets.
- Hermes Agent skills vs plugins vs MCP: which to useGuide · Skills, plugins & MCPMatch the extension to the missing capability instead of installing three different things to solve one problem.