# Meet 'Devto-Blogger': The Hermes Agent Skill That Automatically Writes Your Technical Blog Posts

> Source: <https://dev.to/xbill/meet-devto-blogger-the-hermes-agent-skill-that-automatically-writes-your-technical-blog-posts-2ne2>
> Published: 2026-05-29 15:52:00+00:00

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.

For 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

It autonomously scans any workspace or codebase, analyzes the architecture, and drafts a fully-structured, rich Markdown technical article ready for publication on DEV.

[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:

`devto-blogger`

Skill
In Hermes Agent, a "skill" is defined by a simple, declarative Markdown file (`SKILL.md`

) located in the `~/.hermes/skills/`

directory. By utilizing a prompt-driven skill structure, we can guide the agent's behavior globally without writing complex Python orchestration scripts.

Here is the custom skill I designed and installed for this challenge:

```
---
name: devto-blogger
description: "Scan the codebase and generate a comprehensive Dev.to technical blog post draft."
version: 1.0.0
author: Hermes Agent Developer
license: MIT
platforms: [linux, macos, windows]
metadata:
  hermes:
    tags: [devto, blogging, documentation, markdown, technical-writing]
    related_skills: [plan, design-md]
---

# Dev.to Technical Blogger Skill

Use this skill when you need to write an in-depth technical post, review, or tutorial about the active workspace or codebase.

## Core Behavior
1. **Codebase Inspection**: Scan repository structure, configuration, and dependencies.
2. **Drafting Strategy**: Write a high-quality technical article suitable for DEV.
3. **Content Structure**: Outline introduction, the problem, technical walkthrough, and implementation code snippets.
4. **Output File**: Save the draft under `drafts/devto-submission.md`.
```

When I run Hermes in my workspace and instruct it to write a post:

```
hermes -z "Generate a blog post about our new project"
```

`devto-blogger`

skill signature.`package.json`

, `requirements.txt`

, or config files).`/drafts`

folder.Writing documentation and developer outreach content is often the most neglected part of software development. By leveraging Hermes Agent:

To install Hermes Agent and configure your own custom skills:

```
# Install Hermes Agent
curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash

# Run setup
hermes setup
```

Place the `SKILL.md`

template above in `~/.hermes/skills/creative/devto-blogger/SKILL.md`

and start automating your developer outreach!

*Built with love using Hermes Agent during the 2026 Hermes Agent Challenge.*