Hermes Cybersecurity Lab

What Hermes Cybersecurity Lab does

Hermes Cybersecurity Lab is a skill pack and setup toolkit that prepares Hermes Agent for security work. The core repository embeds 397 SKILL.md files across 22 domains, a main SKILL.md with a methodology from passive recon through scanning, exploitation, forensics, threat intelligence and reporting, and reference documents for tools, frameworks and playbooks.

Two scripts do the setup. clone-all.sh pulls seven external skill and reference repositories into ./external/, and install.sh installs more than 130 security tools plus wordlists in phases covering network recon, exploitation, malware analysis, forensics, web and cloud, and CTI and OSINT. The frameworks covered include MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF, OWASP, CVSS, EPSS, Sigma and YARA. Once copied into a Hermes profile's skills folder, the skill tells the agent which tools and external repositories are available.

Key features

• 397 embedded SKILL.md files in 22 domains
• clone-all.sh to fetch seven external skill and reference repositories
• install.sh for 130+ security tools and wordlists in seven phases
• 28 security frameworks and standards documented, including MITRE ATT&CK and OWASP
• Methodology playbooks for recon, scanning, exploitation and forensics
• A findings.md log for discoveries and lessons learned

When to use it

• Preparing a lab machine where Hermes assists with security research
• Giving an agent a structured methodology for forensics or threat hunting
• Looking up CVE-driven procedures and framework mappings during incident response

Who it is for: Security researchers and students who run Hermes Agent in a lab environment and want a preloaded toolkit.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

It is built for Hermes Agent as a skill that is copied into a Hermes profile, and it points to other Hermes skill collections.

How to install Hermes Cybersecurity Lab

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

git clone https://github.com/handnewb/hermes-cybersec-lab.git
cd hermes-cybersec-lab
bash scripts/clone-all.sh
bash scripts/install.sh

Note: The README gives different skill and tool counts in different sections, and it describes the embedded skills as AI-generated and curated; the toolkit includes offensive security tools.

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