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Unlimited skill

Hermes Agent introduces a 5-layer hybrid routing plugin that enables unlimited skills with near-zero latency. The system uses BM25 and trigger phrase matching for O(1) lookup, supports bilingual Chinese and English queries, and includes self-training and drift monitoring capabilities.

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Unlimited skill engine โ€” Hermes Agent 5-layer hybrid routing plugin.

Like a maรฎtre d' at a fine restaurant: you say "I'm hungry", they seat you at the best table โ€” no need to flip through a 400-dish menu.

See the Difference

Me: "Help me optimize my website" โŒ Before: AI confused, spits out irrelevant text

โœ… After: AI understands instantly, calls the "Performance Optimization" skill

Me: "Thanks, well said" โŒ Before: Still suggesting skills like a pushy salesperson

โœ… After: A quiet "you're welcome" โ€” just chatting normally

Architecture

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User Query

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โ–ผ

[1] Task Gate (rules + LLM hybrid)

โ”œโ”€โ”€ Not a task โ†’ skip (zero overhead)

โ””โ”€โ”€ Task โ†’

โ”‚

โ–ผ

[2] Exact Trigger Match โ”œโ”€โ”€ Hit โ†’ Top-3 injected

โ””โ”€โ”€ Miss โ†’

โ”‚

โ–ผ

[3] Trigger Word Overlap (overlap scoring) โ”œโ”€โ”€ Hit โ†’ Top-3 injected

โ””โ”€โ”€ Miss โ†’

โ”‚

โ–ผ

[4] Levenshtein Fuzzy (typo tolerance) โ”œโ”€โ”€ Hit โ†’ Top-3 injected

โ””โ”€โ”€ Miss โ†’

โ”‚

โ–ผ

[5] LLM Fallback (edge case catch-all) โ†’ Top-3 injected

Features

Unlimited skills โ€” BM25 + trigger phrase matching, O(1) lookup, skill count doesn't affect latency

Bilingual CN/EN โ€” 2,918 trigger phrases covering real Chinese and English user queries

Self-training loop โ€” user corrections โ†’ feedback log โ†’ cron auto-training

Drift monitor โ€” runs 366 test cases daily at 4AM, alerts if accuracy drops >5%

Zero noise โ€” scores 0.5โ€“1.0 have meaning; no BM25 random guesses

100% local โ€” all indexes on-device, no external APIs

Install

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ยท bash

hermes skills install https://github.com/wuykjl/unlimited-skills Install and go. Works in Chinese and English. Learns on its own. Monitors itself for drift.

Who's It For?

You say "write me a script", "deploy this", "check for security holes" โ€” daily

300+ skills installed and you don't know which ones are actually being used

You don't want to waste time thinking about "which skill to pick"

Acknowledgments

This project's skill routing is built on the open skill ecosystems of:

ECC (Enterprise Coding Conventions) โ€” 117-rule coding standard framework

Anthropic Skills โ€” Official Agent Skills repository

Claude Code Plugins โ€” Claude Code official plugin ecosystem

And all individual developers who contributed skills to the Hermes ecosystem

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