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

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.

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.