Advise Project Approach: skill pack for Hermes Agent

Portable project-planning skill that checks evidence before recommending a stack or architecture

What Advise Project Approach does

Advise Project Approach is a single portable SKILL.md that tells an agent how to give project advice from evidence instead of guesswork. Before recommending a stack, architecture, vendor, refactor or shipping plan, the skill checks the user's actual constraints, comparable real-world projects, tradeoffs and failure conditions, cost and lock-in realities, and the point at which its own recommendation would stop being correct.

It covers three stages. Before a build it researches the stack, finds comparable projects and hands back a build plan. Mid-build it inspects the repository and ranks changes by impact. After a build it reviews the finished project against mature comparables and lists what to harden before shipping. The README describes portability as a design contract, not proof of identical behavior in every host, and links a host evidence matrix. Version 0.7.2 added no-clobber and recovery checks for advice that changes user data, and keeps private project details out of public research queries.

Key features

Checks constraints, comparable projects, tradeoffs, cost and lock-in before advising
Pre-build mode that researches a stack and produces a build plan
Mid-build mode that inspects the repo and ranks changes by impact
Post-build mode that reviews a finished project against mature comparables
Keeps private project details out of public research queries

When to use it

Turning a rough project idea into a build plan
Course-correcting a messy repository halfway through a build
Choosing between stacks or vendors, such as Postgres versus SQLite
Reviewing a finished project before shipping

Who it is for: Developers who want their agent to back stack, architecture and shipping advice with researched evidence.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent is one of the hosts named in the README, alongside Codex, Claude Code and pi, because the skill is a standard SKILL.md that Agent Skills-compatible harnesses can load.

How to install Advise Project Approach

These commands are copied from the project's README. Check the repository for the latest steps before you run them.

npx skills@latest add AaravKashyap12/advise-project-approach --skill advise-project-approach

Requirements: Node.js and npm for the skills installer

FAQ

What is Advise Project Approach?

Advise Project Approach is an agent skill for project planning, course correction and review. It makes the agent research constraints, comparable projects and tradeoffs before it recommends a stack, architecture or shipping plan.

Does Advise Project Approach work with Hermes Agent?

Yes, the README lists Hermes among the harnesses that can load its portable SKILL.md. It also says portability is a design contract, not proof of identical behavior in every host.

How do I install Advise Project Approach?

Run the one-line npx skills command from the README, which uses the open skills installer to fetch the repo from GitHub and install only this skill. It requires Node.js and npm, and the README advises reviewing installed skills because they run with your agent's normal permissions.