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Bundled Skills Catalog
كتالوج Skills المدمجة
Reference6 min readLesson 72 questions✓ 2026-08-18
What this page is, and what it holds.
This page covers Bundled Skills Catalog. You will use hermes update here; about 6 minutes to read. A skill is text the agent obeys. Read it before enabling it.
The official one-line description
Catalog of bundled skills that ship with Hermes Agent
Outcomes taken from this page, not a template.
- Understand what Skill is and when you need it.
- Run
hermes updateand understand what happens next. - Read the table and take only the row that applies to you.
Exactly as they appear in Hermes.
Commands
hermes update
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.
Hermes ships with a large built-in skill library copied into ~/.hermes/skills/ on install. Each skill below links to a dedicated page with its full definition, setup, and usage.
Hermes also syncs bundled skills on hermes update, but the sync manifest respects local deletions and user edits. If a skill listed here is missing from your profile's ~/.hermes/skills/ tree, it is still shipped with Hermes; restore it with hermes skills reset <name> --restore.
If a skill is missing from this list but present in the repo, the catalog is regenerated by website/scripts/generate-skill-docs.py.
apple
A lookup table. Do not read it all; find the row that applies to you.
| Skill | Description | Path |
|---|---|---|
apple-notes | Manage Apple Notes via memo CLI: create, search, edit. | apple/apple-notes |
apple-reminders | Apple Reminders via remindctl: add, list, complete. | apple/apple-reminders |
findmy | Track Apple devices/AirTags via FindMy.app on macOS. | apple/findmy |
imessage | Send and receive iMessages/SMS via the imsg CLI on macOS. | apple/imessage |
autonomous-ai-agents
A lookup table. Do not read it all; find the row that applies to you.
| Skill | Description | Path |
|---|---|---|
claude-code | Delegate coding to Claude Code CLI (features, PRs). | autonomous-ai-agents/claude-code |
codex | Delegate coding to OpenAI Codex CLI (features, PRs). | autonomous-ai-agents/codex |
computer-use | Drive the desktop in the background without stealing focus. | autonomous-ai-agents/computer-use |
hermes-agent | Use, configure, theme, extend, and orchestrate Hermes Agent. | autonomous-ai-agents/hermes-agent |
opencode | Delegate coding to OpenCode CLI (features, PR review). | autonomous-ai-agents/opencode |
creative
A lookup table. Do not read it all; find the row that applies to you.
| Skill | Description | Path |
|---|---|---|
architecture-diagram | Dark-themed SVG architecture/cloud/infra diagrams as HTML. | creative/architecture-diagram |
ascii-art | ASCII art: pyfiglet, cowsay, boxes, image-to-ascii. | creative/ascii-art |
ascii-video | ASCII video: convert video/audio to colored ASCII MP4/GIF. | creative/ascii-video |
baoyu-infographic | Infographics: 21 layouts x 21 styles (信息图, 可视化). | creative/baoyu-infographic |
claude-design | Design one-off HTML artifacts (landing, deck, prototype). | creative/claude-design |
comfyui | Generate images, video, and audio via diffusion workflows. | creative/comfyui |
design-md | Author/validate/export Google's DESIGN.md token spec files. | creative/design-md |
excalidraw | Hand-drawn Excalidraw JSON diagrams (arch, flow, seq). | creative/excalidraw |
humanizer | Humanize text: strip AI-isms and add real voice. | creative/humanizer |
manim-video | Manim CE animations: 3Blue1Brown math/algo videos. | creative/manim-video |
p5js | p5.js sketches: gen art, shaders, interactive, 3D. | creative/p5js |
popular-web-designs | 54 real design systems (Stripe, Linear, Vercel) as HTML/CSS. | creative/popular-web-designs |
pretext | Build creative browser demos with DOM-free text layout. | creative/pretext |
sketch | Throwaway HTML mockups: 2-3 design variants to compare. | creative/sketch |
songwriting-and-ai-music | Songwriting craft and Suno AI music prompts. | creative/songwriting-and-ai-music |
touchdesigner-mcp | Control TouchDesigner via twozero MCP. | creative/touchdesigner-mcp |
Explains the idea itself. Read it slowly; the later sections build on it.
| Skill | Description | Path |
|---|---|---|
email-inbox-triage | Triage an inbox: prioritize threads, draft replies safely. | email/email-inbox-triage |
himalaya | Himalaya CLI: IMAP/SMTP email from terminal. | email/himalaya |
github
A lookup table. Do not read it all; find the row that applies to you.
| Skill | Description | Path |
|---|---|---|
codebase-inspection | Inspect codebases w/ pygount: LOC, languages, ratios. | github/codebase-inspection |
github-auth | GitHub auth setup: HTTPS tokens, SSH keys, gh CLI login. | github/github-auth |
github-code-review | Review PRs: diffs, inline comments via gh or REST. | github/github-code-review |
github-issue-to-pr | Carry a GitHub issue to a verified PR with honest CI state. | github/github-issue-to-pr |
github-issues | Create, triage, label, assign GitHub issues via gh or REST. | github/github-issues |
github-pr-workflow | GitHub PR lifecycle: branch, commit, open, CI, merge. | github/github-pr-workflow |
github-repo-management | Clone/create/fork repos; manage remotes, releases. | github/github-repo-management |
media
Explains the idea itself. Read it slowly; the later sections build on it.
| Skill | Description | Path |
|---|---|---|
gif-search | Search/download GIFs from Tenor via curl + jq. | media/gif-search |
songsee | Audio spectrograms/features (mel, chroma, MFCC) via CLI. | media/songsee |
youtube-content | YouTube transcripts to summaries, threads, blogs. | media/youtube-content |
mlops
A lookup table. Do not read it all; find the row that applies to you.
| Skill | Description | Path |
|---|---|---|
evaluating-llms-harness | lm-eval-harness: benchmark LLMs (MMLU, GSM8K, etc.). | mlops/evaluation/evaluating-llms-harness |
huggingface-hub | HuggingFace hf CLI: search/download/upload models, datasets. | mlops/huggingface-hub |
llama-cpp | llama.cpp local GGUF inference + HF Hub model discovery. | mlops/inference/llama-cpp |
serving-llms-vllm | vLLM: high-throughput LLM serving, OpenAI API, quantization. | mlops/inference/serving-llms-vllm |
weights-and-biases | W&B: log ML experiments, sweeps, model registry, dashboards. | mlops/evaluation/weights-and-biases |
note-taking
Explains the idea itself. Read it slowly; the later sections build on it.
| Skill | Description | Path |
|---|---|---|
obsidian | Read, search, create, and edit notes in the Obsidian vault. | note-taking/obsidian |
productivity
A lookup table. Do not read it all; find the row that applies to you.
| Skill | Description | Path |
|---|---|---|
airtable | Airtable REST API via curl. Records CRUD, filters, upserts. | productivity/airtable |
box | Box manages cloud files, sharing, search, and metadata. | productivity/box |
document-to-action-items | Extract cited obligations, deadlines, tasks from documents. | productivity/document-to-action-items |
docx | Create, read, edit, and template Word .docx files. | productivity/docx |
google-workspace | Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets via gws CLI or Python. | productivity/google-workspace |
maps | Geocode, POIs, routes, timezones via OpenStreetMap/OSRM. | productivity/maps |
meeting-action-items | Turn meeting notes into cited decisions, owners, tickets. | productivity/meeting-action-items |
nano-pdf | Edit text in existing PDFs via natural-language prompts. | productivity/nano-pdf |
notion | Notion API + ntn CLI: pages, databases, markdown, Workers. | productivity/notion |
ocr-and-documents | Extract text from PDFs/scans (pymupdf, marker-pdf). | productivity/ocr-and-documents |
pdf | Create, read, merge, fill, and secure PDF files. | productivity/pdf |
powerpoint | Create, read, edit .pptx decks with python-pptx. | productivity/powerpoint |
product-price-monitor | Watch product, flight, or listing prices; alert on target. | productivity/product-price-monitor |
session-librarian | Organize sessions by prompt: find, rename, archive, prune. | productivity/session-librarian |
teams-meeting-pipeline | Teams meeting summaries, job replay, Graph subscriptions. | productivity/teams-meeting-pipeline |
weekly-review-planning | Weekly reset: commitments, stalled work, next-week plan. | productivity/weekly-review-planning |
xlsx | Create, read, edit Excel .xlsx workbooks and CSVs. | productivity/xlsx |
research
A lookup table. Do not read it all; find the row that applies to you.
| Skill | Description | Path |
|---|---|---|
arxiv | Search arXiv papers by keyword, author, category, or ID. | research/arxiv |
blocked-page-recovery | Recover blocked/paywalled/WAF'd pages via archive snapshots and reader fallbacks. Use when web_extract or the browser hits 403/429/challenge pages, paywalls, or bot-detection interstitials. | research/blocked-page-recovery |
blogwatcher | Monitor blogs and RSS/Atom feeds via blogwatcher-cli tool. | research/blogwatcher |
competitor-news-monitor | Watch named companies for material news; cited digests. | research/competitor-news-monitor |
grounded-citations | Ground answers and documents in cited, verifiable sources. | research/grounded-citations |
llm-wiki | Karpathy's LLM Wiki: build/query interlinked markdown KB. | research/llm-wiki |
research-paper-writing | Write ML papers for NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR: design→submit. | research/research-paper-writing |
smart-home
Explains the idea itself. Read it slowly; the later sections build on it.
| Skill | Description | Path |
|---|---|---|
openhue | Control Philips Hue lights, scenes, rooms via OpenHue CLI. | smart-home/openhue |
software-development
A lookup table. Do not read it all; find the row that applies to you.
| Skill | Description | Path |
|---|---|---|
dogfood | Exploratory QA of web apps: find bugs, evidence, reports. | software-development/dogfood |
hermes-agent-skill-authoring | Author in-repo SKILL.md files: frontmatter and structure. | software-development/hermes-agent-skill-authoring |
inspecting-hermes-desktop-dom | Read the live Hermes desktop DOM/CSS over CDP. | software-development/inspecting-hermes-desktop-dom |
node-inspect-debugger | Debug Node.js via --inspect + Chrome DevTools Protocol CLI. | software-development/node-inspect-debugger |
plan | Write a markdown plan to .hermes/plans/; no execution. | software-development/plan |
python-debugpy | Debug Python: pdb REPL + debugpy remote (DAP). | software-development/python-debugpy |
requesting-code-review | Pre-commit review: security scan, quality gates, auto-fix. | software-development/requesting-code-review |
simplify-code | Parallel 4-agent cleanup of recent code changes. | software-development/simplify-code |
spike | Throwaway experiments to validate an idea before build. | software-development/spike |
systematic-debugging | 4-phase root cause debugging: understand bugs before fixing. | software-development/systematic-debugging |
test-driven-development | TDD: enforce RED-GREEN-REFACTOR, tests before code. | software-development/test-driven-development |
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.
social-media
Explains the idea itself. Read it slowly; the later sections build on it.
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