Optional Skills Catalog
كتالوج Skills الاختيارية
What this page is, and what it holds.
This page covers Optional Skills Catalog. You will use hermes skills install official and hermes skills uninstall here; about 7 minutes to read. A skill is text the agent obeys. Read it before enabling it.
Official optional skills shipped with hermes-agent — install via hermes skills install official//
Outcomes taken from this page, not a template.
- Understand what Skill is and when you need it.
- Run
hermes skills install officialandhermes skills uninstalland understand what happens next. - Read the table and take only the row that applies to you.
Exactly as they appear in Hermes.
hermes skills install officialhermes skills uninstall
Jump to the part you need.
Nothing summarised away.
The documentation body below is reproduced from the official source so commands and identifiers stay exact. Each section carries a short note describing what it contains.
Optional skills ship with hermes-agent under optional-skills/ but are not active by default. Install them explicitly:
hermes skills install official/<category>/<skill>For example:
hermes skills install official/blockchain/solana
hermes skills install official/mlops/flash-attentionEach skill below links to a dedicated page with its full definition, setup, and usage.
To uninstall:
hermes skills uninstall <skill-name>autonomous-ai-agents
A lookup table. Do not read it all; find the row that applies to you.
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| antigravity-cli | Operate the Antigravity CLI (agy): plugins, auth, sandbox. |
| blackbox | Delegate coding tasks to the Blackbox AI multi-model CLI. |
| grok | Delegate coding to xAI Grok Build CLI (features, PRs). |
| honcho | Configure and troubleshoot Honcho memory for Hermes. |
| openhands | Delegate coding to OpenHands CLI (model-agnostic, LiteLLM). |
blockchain
Explains the idea itself. Read it slowly; the later sections build on it.
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| evm | Read-only EVM client: wallets, tokens, gas across 8 chains. |
| hyperliquid | Hyperliquid market data, account history, trade review. |
| solana | Query Solana wallets, tokens, txs, and NFTs in USD. |
communication
Explains the idea itself. Read it slowly; the later sections build on it.
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| one-three-one-rule | 1-3-1 decision briefs: problem, three options, one pick. |
creative
A lookup table. Do not read it all; find the row that applies to you.
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| audiocraft-audio-generation | AudioCraft: MusicGen text-to-music, AudioGen text-to-sound. |
| baoyu-article-illustrator | Article illustrations: type × style × palette consistency. |
| baoyu-comic | Knowledge comics (知识漫画): educational, biography, tutorial. |
| concept-diagrams | Generate flat, minimal educational SVG visuals as HTML. |
| creative-ideation | Generate ideas via named methods from creative practice. |
| draw-your-font | Turn a photo of handwriting into an installable font (TTF/WOFF). |
| heartmula | HeartMuLa: Suno-like song generation from lyrics + tags. |
| hyperframes | Render MP4/WebM videos from HTML compositions. |
| kanban-video-orchestrator | Plan and run multi-agent video production pipelines. |
| meme-generation | Create meme PNGs from templates with Pillow text overlay. |
| pixel-art | Pixel art w/ era palettes (NES, Game Boy, PICO-8). |
| simple-english | Rewrite technical text to ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English. |
| social-media-content-calendar | Plan multi-platform social campaigns: briefs to posting. |
| tldraw-offline | Drive and script tldraw offline canvases with an agent. |
| unreal-mcp | Automate Unreal Engine editor scenes, actors, and renders. |
data-science
Explains the idea itself. Read it slowly; the later sections build on it.
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| jupyter-notebook | Iterative Python via live Jupyter kernel (hamelnb). |
devops
A lookup table. Do not read it all; find the row that applies to you.
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| actual-setup | Set up Actual Computer (actual.inc) inference in Hermes. |
| docker-management | Manage Docker containers, images, volumes, and Compose. |
| hermes-s6-container-supervision | Modify or debug s6 services in the Hermes Docker image. |
| inference-sh-cli | Run 150+ AI apps (image, video, LLM) via inference.sh CLI. |
| pinggy-tunnel | Zero-install localhost tunnels over SSH via Pinggy. |
| watchers | Poll RSS, JSON APIs, and GitHub with watermark dedup. |
dogfood
Explains the idea itself. Read it slowly; the later sections build on it.
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| adversarial-ux-test | Roleplay a hostile user to find and triage UX pain points. |
Explains the idea itself. Read it slowly; the later sections build on it.
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| agentmail | Give the agent its own inbox: send and receive email. |
finance
A lookup table. Do not read it all; find the row that applies to you.
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| 3-statement-model | Build integrated IS/BS/CF financial workbooks in Excel. |
| comps-analysis | Build comparable-company valuation workbooks in Excel. |
| dcf-model | Build discounted cash flow valuation workbooks in Excel. |
| excel-author | Build auditable financial workbooks headless via openpyxl. |
| lbo-model | Build leveraged buyout workbooks with IRR/MOIC in Excel. |
| merger-model | Build M&A accretion/dilution workbooks in Excel. |
| polymarket | Query Polymarket: markets, prices, orderbooks, history. |
| pptx-author | Build PowerPoint decks headless with python-pptx. |
| stocks | Stock quotes, history, search, compare, crypto via Yahoo. |
gaming
Explains the idea itself. Read it slowly; the later sections build on it.
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| minecraft-modpack-server | Host modded Minecraft servers (CurseForge, Modrinth). |
| pokemon-player | Play Pokemon via headless emulator + RAM reads. |
health
Explains the idea itself. Read it slowly; the later sections build on it.
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| fitness-nutrition | Workout planning, macros, and body metrics via wger/USDA. |
| neuroskill-bci | Use live BCI cognitive and mood state from NeuroSkill. |
mcp
Explains the idea itself. Read it slowly; the later sections build on it.
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| fastmcp | Build, test, and deploy Python MCP servers. |
| mcp-oauth-remote-gateway | Manual OAuth for remote MCP servers on headless gateways. |
| mcporter | List, auth, and call MCP servers/tools from the terminal. |
migration
Explains the idea itself. Read it slowly; the later sections build on it.
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| openclaw-migration | Import an OpenClaw setup (memories, skills) into Hermes. |
mlops
A lookup table. Do not read it all; find the row that applies to you.
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| accelerate | Run PyTorch training across GPUs with minimal changes. |
| axolotl | Axolotl: YAML LLM fine-tuning (LoRA, DPO, GRPO). |
| chroma | Embedding database for RAG and semantic search. |
| clip | Zero-shot image classification and image-text search. |
| dspy | DSPy: declarative LM programs, auto-optimize prompts, RAG. |
| faiss | Fast vector similarity search at billion scale. |
| flash-attention | Speed up long-sequence transformer training and inference. |
| guidance | Constrain LLM output with grammars; guarantee valid JSON. |
| huggingface-tokenizers | Fast BPE/WordPiece tokenization and custom vocab training. |
| instructor | Structured LLM outputs validated with Pydantic. |
| lambda-labs | On-demand GPU cloud instances for ML training. |
| llava | Vision-language chat: VQA, captioning, image dialogue. |
| modal | Serverless GPU cloud for ML jobs and model APIs. |
| nemo-curator | Curate LLM training data: dedupe, filter, PII redaction. |
| obliteratus | OBLITERATUS: abliterate LLM refusals (diff-in-means). |
| outlines | Outlines: structured JSON/regex/Pydantic LLM generation. |
| peft | Fine-tune large LLMs with LoRA on limited GPU memory. |
| pinecone | Managed vector DB for production RAG and search. |
| pytorch-fsdp | Fully sharded data-parallel training for large models. |
| pytorch-lightning | Clean training loops with built-in distributed support. |
| qdrant | Vector search engine for production RAG systems. |
| saelens | Train sparse autoencoders to interpret model features. |
| segment-anything-model | SAM: zero-shot image segmentation via points, boxes, masks. |
| simpo | Reference-free preference alignment, simpler than DPO. |
| slime | RL post-training for LLMs with Megatron and SGLang. |
| stable-diffusion | Text-to-image generation, inpainting, and img2img. |
| tensorrt-llm | High-throughput LLM inference on NVIDIA GPUs. |
| torchtitan | Pretrain LLMs at scale with PyTorch 4D parallelism. |
| trl-fine-tuning | TRL: SFT, DPO, GRPO, RLOO reward modeling for LLM RLHF. |
| unsloth | Unsloth: 2-5x faster LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning, less VRAM. |
| whisper | Transcribe and translate speech in 99 languages. |
payments
Explains the idea itself. Read it slowly; the later sections build on it.
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| mpp-agent | Pay HTTP 402 APIs via Machine Payments Protocol (MPP). |
| stripe-link-cli | Agent payments via Stripe Link — cards, SPT, approvals. |
| stripe-projects | Provision SaaS services + sync creds via Stripe Projects. |
productivity
A lookup table. Do not read it all; find the row that applies to you.
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| canvas | Fetch Canvas LMS courses and assignments via API token. |
| here-now | Publish sites to {slug}.here.now and store files in Drives. |
| memento-flashcards | Spaced-repetition flashcards: create, review, quiz, export. |
| shop | Shop catalog search, checkout, order tracking, returns. |
| shopify | Query Shopify Admin/Storefront GraphQL APIs via curl. |
| siyuan | Query and edit a SiYuan knowledge base via its API. |
| telephony | Provision Twilio numbers, SMS/MMS, and AI outbound calls. |
research
A lookup table. Do not read it all; find the row that applies to you.
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| bioinformatics | Gateway to 400+ genomics and computational biology skills. |
| darwinian-evolver | Evolve prompts/regex/SQL/code with Imbue's evolution loop. |
| domain-intel | Passive recon of subdomains, SSL certs, WHOIS, and DNS. |
| drug-discovery | Drug discovery: ChEMBL search, drug-likeness, interactions. |
| duckduckgo-search | Free keyless web, news, and image search via ddgs. |
| gitnexus-explorer | Serve an interactive codebase knowledge graph web UI. |
| osint-investigation | Follow the money via public records and sanctions data. |
| parallel-cli | Agent-native web search, deep research, and enrichment. |
| pinecone-research | Agent RAG and long-term memory with Pinecone. |
| qmd | Hybrid local search over notes, docs, and transcripts. |
| scrapling | Scrape sites with stealth browsing and Cloudflare bypass. |
| searxng-search | Free keyless meta-search aggregating 70+ engines. |
security
A lookup table. Do not read it all; find the row that applies to you.
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| 1password | Set up op CLI, sign in, and read or inject secrets. |
| godmode | Jailbreak LLMs: Parseltongue, GODMODE, ULTRAPLINIAN. |
| oss-forensics | GitHub supply-chain forensics: recovery, IOCs, reporting. |
| sherlock | Find accounts for a username across 400+ platforms. |
| unbroker | Autonomously remove your info from data-broker sites. |
| web-pentest | Authorized web pentest: recon, proof-based exploits, report. |
software-development
Explains the idea itself. Read it slowly; the later sections build on it.
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| code-wiki | Generate wiki docs + Mermaid diagrams for any codebase. |
| rest-graphql-debug | Debug REST/GraphQL APIs: status codes, auth, schemas, repro. |
| subagent-driven-development | Execute plans via delegate_task subagents (2-stage review). |
web-development
Explains the idea itself. Read it slowly; the later sections build on it.
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| cloudflare-temporary-deploy | Deploy a Worker live, no account, via wrangler --temporary. |
| page-agent | Embed an in-page natural-language GUI copilot in web apps. |
yuanbao
Explains the idea itself. Read it slowly; the later sections build on it.
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| yuanbao | Yuanbao (元宝) groups: @mention users, query info/members. |
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Contributing Optional Skills
Explains the idea itself. Read it slowly; the later sections build on it.
To add a new optional skill to the repository:
- Create a directory under
optional-skills/<category>/<skill-name>/ - Add a
SKILL.mdwith standard frontmatter (name, description, version, author) - Include any supporting files in
references/,templates/, orscripts/subdirectories - Submit a pull request — the skill will appear in this catalog and get its own docs page once merged
2 questions answered by this page alone.
Every option is a real identifier from the Hermes documentation. The wrong ones are real too, just from other pages.