Naval Skill: skill pack for Hermes Agent

Agent skill that applies Naval Ravikant's leverage and specific-knowledge frameworks to your decisions

What Naval Skill does

According to the README, the skill is built on The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, his How to Get Rich tweetstorm, long podcast conversations and criticism from Decoding the Gurus, drawing on more than 30 primary sources. The five mental models are leverage, specific knowledge, desire as a contract, redefinition, and turning pain into a rebuilt system. Heuristics include the permissionless principle, the calendar test, and treating prolonged hesitation as a no.

Example answers in the README, written in Chinese, cover a job change for a data analyst, juggling three ambitions and a stalled startup. The author notes that the skill keeps five pairs of internal tensions in Naval's views instead of presenting a flat persona. It follows the open Agent Skills protocol, installs with the skills CLI or by manual copy into a runtime's skills folder, and can be pasted into a chat as a last resort.

Key features

Five mental models, including leverage and specific knowledge
Eight heuristics such as the calendar test and the permissionless principle
A description of his sentence style and rhetoric
Five documented internal tensions kept in the persona
Packaged as a SKILL.md in the Agent Skills format

When to use it

Weighing a job change against the goal of owning assets that scale
Sorting competing ambitions by which one holds your attention
Reviewing a business through the lens of leverage

Who it is for: Founders and professionals who want an agent to challenge career and wealth decisions with Naval's published ideas, and who can read Chinese examples.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

The README lists Hermes Agent among the compatible runtimes and says to run its install script or clone the repository into its skills directory.

How to install Naval Skill

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

npx skills add alchaincyf/naval-skill

FAQ

What is Naval Skill?

Naval Skill is an agent skill that applies five mental models and eight heuristics drawn from Naval Ravikant's talks, writing and interviews. It is meant to analyze your question rather than repeat quotes.

Does Naval Skill work with Hermes Agent?

Yes, the README includes Hermes Agent in its list of skills-compatible runtimes. It says to run that runtime's install script or clone the repository into its skills directory.

How do I install Naval Skill?

Run npx skills add alchaincyf/naval-skill, which detects your runtime. Manual copying into each runtime's skills folder and pasting SKILL.md into a chat are also described.