{"slug": "meet-devto-blogger-the-hermes-agent-skill-that-automatically-writes-your-blog", "title": "Meet 'Devto-Blogger': The Hermes Agent Skill That Automatically Writes Your Technical Blog Posts", "summary": "Nous Research has released \"devto-blogger,\" a custom skill for its Hermes Agent that autonomously scans codebases and generates fully-structured technical blog posts. The prompt-driven skill analyzes repository architecture, dependencies, and configuration files to produce Markdown drafts ready for publication on DEV. The tool aims to automate the time-consuming process of writing launch posts, documentation, and tutorials for open-source maintainers and developer advocates.", "body_md": "If you are an open-source maintainer, developer advocate, or builder, you know the cycle: you build an amazing tool, but writing the launch blog post, documentation, or tutorial takes hours.\n\nFor the **Hermes Agent Challenge**, I wanted to build something that solves this exact problem. I built ** devto-blogger**, a custom, prompt-driven skill for the brand new\n\nIt autonomously scans any workspace or codebase, analyzes the architecture, and drafts a fully-structured, rich Markdown technical article ready for publication on DEV.\n\n[Hermes Agent](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/) is an open-source agentic system built by **Nous Research** (the lab behind the famous Hermes LLM models). Unlike basic coding copilots or simple chatbot wrappers, Hermes is:\n\n`devto-blogger`\n\nSkill\nIn Hermes Agent, a \"skill\" is defined by a simple, declarative Markdown file (`SKILL.md`\n\n) located in the `~/.hermes/skills/`\n\ndirectory. By utilizing a prompt-driven skill structure, we can guide the agent's behavior globally without writing complex Python orchestration scripts.\n\nHere is the custom skill I designed and installed for this challenge:\n\n```\n---\nname: devto-blogger\ndescription: \"Scan the codebase and generate a comprehensive Dev.to technical blog post draft.\"\nversion: 1.0.0\nauthor: Hermes Agent Developer\nlicense: MIT\nplatforms: [linux, macos, windows]\nmetadata:\n  hermes:\n    tags: [devto, blogging, documentation, markdown, technical-writing]\n    related_skills: [plan, design-md]\n---\n\n# Dev.to Technical Blogger Skill\n\nUse this skill when you need to write an in-depth technical post, review, or tutorial about the active workspace or codebase.\n\n## Core Behavior\n1. **Codebase Inspection**: Scan repository structure, configuration, and dependencies.\n2. **Drafting Strategy**: Write a high-quality technical article suitable for DEV.\n3. **Content Structure**: Outline introduction, the problem, technical walkthrough, and implementation code snippets.\n4. **Output File**: Save the draft under `drafts/devto-submission.md`.\n```\n\nWhen I run Hermes in my workspace and instruct it to write a post:\n\n```\nhermes -z \"Generate a blog post about our new project\"\n```\n\n`devto-blogger`\n\nskill signature.`package.json`\n\n, `requirements.txt`\n\n, or config files).`/drafts`\n\nfolder.Writing documentation and developer outreach content is often the most neglected part of software development. By leveraging Hermes Agent:\n\nTo install Hermes Agent and configure your own custom skills:\n\n```\n# Install Hermes Agent\ncurl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash\n\n# Run setup\nhermes setup\n```\n\nPlace the `SKILL.md`\n\ntemplate above in `~/.hermes/skills/creative/devto-blogger/SKILL.md`\n\nand start automating your developer outreach!\n\n*Built with love using Hermes Agent during the 2026 Hermes Agent Challenge.*", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meet-devto-blogger-the-hermes-agent-skill-that-automatically-writes-your-blog", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/xbill/meet-devto-blogger-the-hermes-agent-skill-that-automatically-writes-your-technical-blog-posts-2ne2", "published_at": "2026-05-29 15:52:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-29 16:13:25.392090+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Hermes Agent", "Nous Research", "DEV", "Hermes LLM", "devto-blogger"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meet-devto-blogger-the-hermes-agent-skill-that-automatically-writes-your-blog", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meet-devto-blogger-the-hermes-agent-skill-that-automatically-writes-your-blog.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meet-devto-blogger-the-hermes-agent-skill-that-automatically-writes-your-blog.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meet-devto-blogger-the-hermes-agent-skill-that-automatically-writes-your-blog.jsonld"}}