{"slug": "build-financial-analysis-into-your-hermes-ai-agent-with-the-fmp-skill", "title": "Build Financial Analysis into Your Hermes AI Agent with the FMP Skill", "summary": "The Hermes AI agent community released a Financial Modeling Prep (FMP) skill that provides plug-and-play access to real-time financial data. The skill connects Hermes to professional-grade market data across multiple asset classes via a clean abstraction over FMP's API, enabling developers to build financial chatbots, investment research assistants, or autonomous trading dashboards with minimal setup.", "body_md": "Building AI agents that can answer real-time financial questions is tough. You need reliable data sources, API integrations, and the right abstractions to make it seamless. That's why the Hermes community just shipped something powerful: the **Financial Modeling Prep (FMP) skill**.\n\nWhether you're building a financial chatbot, an investment research assistant, or an autonomous trading dashboard, you now have a plug-and-play skill that gives your Hermes AI agent instant access to professional-grade financial data.\n\nThe FMP skill connects Hermes to real-time market data across multiple asset classes:\n\nThe skill is built on a clean abstraction over Financial Modeling Prep's stable API (v2025+):\n\n``` python\ndef fmp(path, **params):\n    params[\"apikey\"] = os.environ[\"FMP_API_KEY\"]\n    qs = \"&\".join(f\"{k}={v}\" for k, v in params.items())\n    url = f\"https://financialmodelingprep.com/stable/{path}?{qs}\"\n    return json.loads(urllib.request.urlopen(url).read())\n```\n\nWith this helper, querying data is one line:\n\n```\n# Get Apple's current stock price\nprice = fmp(\"quote\", symbol=\"AAPL\")\nprint(f\"AAPL: ${price[0]['price']} ({price[0]['changesPercentage']:+.2f}%)\")\n```\n\nSetup is straightforward:\n\n`~/.hermes/.env`\n\n):\n\n```\n   FMP_API_KEY=your_key_here\n```\n\nHermes will automatically route these queries to the FMP skill and deliver formatted, contextual answers.\n\nFinancial data is increasingly important for AI agents. This skill removes the friction of integrating FMP—you get:\n\nThe FMP skill is live in the ** hermes-skills** repository. If you're building financial AI agents, check it out and give the repo a ⭐ to support the project.\n\nHave ideas for other financial endpoints? PRs welcome—let's build the financial data layer for AI agents together.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/build-financial-analysis-into-your-hermes-ai-agent-with-the-fmp-skill", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/robinberaud/build-financial-analysis-into-your-hermes-ai-agent-with-the-fmp-skill-2bj6", "published_at": "2026-06-20 22:14:53+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-20 22:36:59.106416+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Hermes", "Financial Modeling Prep", "FMP"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/build-financial-analysis-into-your-hermes-ai-agent-with-the-fmp-skill", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/build-financial-analysis-into-your-hermes-ai-agent-with-the-fmp-skill.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/build-financial-analysis-into-your-hermes-ai-agent-with-the-fmp-skill.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/build-financial-analysis-into-your-hermes-ai-agent-with-the-fmp-skill.jsonld"}}