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Hermes Agent Skills — Self-Evolving, Persona-Aware Skill Collection for Hermes Agent

A developer released hermes-agent-skills, a production-grade skill collection for the Hermes AI agent that includes an evolution engine tracking five health dimensions and a persona system via SOUL.md files. The collection features eight skills covering the full development lifecycle, from requirement analysis to deployment, with deep integration of Hermes-specific capabilities like slash commands, persistent memory, and multi-tool coordination.

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Hey everyone 👋

I've been building ** hermes-agent-skills** — a production-grade skill collection for

Skills aren't static YAML. The built-in EvolutionEngine

tracks 5 health dimensions (usage frequency, success rate, user corrections, freshness, command validity), assigns a health score, and tells you which skills are rotting. Think of it as npm audit

for your AI assistant's capabilities.

Drop a SOUL.md

in your Hermes config — naming conventions, comment density, architecture preferences, commit style — and every skill that touches code output adapts to it. hermes-skill soul generate

bootstraps one in one command. The persona-aware-coding

skill reads it at runtime so your agent writes code that actually looks like you wrote it.

hermes-skill create my-workflow     # scaffold a standards-compliant SKILL.md
hermes-skill validate skills/       # validate against the Agent Skills Standard
hermes-skill list skills/ -f json   # enumerate with health metadata
hermes-skill soul generate          # bootstrap a persona file

What's in the box (v1.1.0):

| Skill | Phase | Hermes-only Feature |

|---|---|---|

| requirement-analyzer

| Define | Persistent memory across sessions |

| spec-driven-dev

| Spec | /skills

chain forming workflows |

| test-driven-dev

| Build | delegate_task

parallel test execution |

| debugger-coordinator

| Verify | browser

  • terminal

  • vision

tri-tool |

| code-quality-guardian

| Review | patch

auto-fix + /curator

tracking |

| cicd-orchestrator

| Ship | cronjob

scheduling + webhook

triggers |

| skill-curator

| Evolve | Direct /curator

integration |

| persona-aware-coding

| Identity | Native SOUL.md persona system |

Why this is different: Most agent skill collections are portable but shallow — they can't use any platform's unique superpowers. These skills go deep on Hermes specifically: slash commands, delegate_task, persistent memory, vision+browser+terminal coordination, cron jobs, webhooks. But the format follows the open Agent Skills Standard — anyone can fork, remix, or build their own.

Install:

pip install hermes-agent-skills
hermes skills tap add Ow1onp/hermes-agent-skills

Repo: https://github.com/Ow1onp/hermes-agent-skills

46 tests, MIT license, Python 3.10+.

Would love feedback — especially from people who've tried building their own skills. What's the friction point you hit first?

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