Luban: skill pack for Hermes Agent

Q: Does Luban work with Hermes Agent?

Yes. The README gives the command hermes skills install LearnPrompt/luban-skill, and a manual route that copies the skills/luban folder into ~/.hermes/skills/productivity/luban.

Skill-polishing workshop that audits an agent skill and improves it through five gated steps

What Luban does

Point Luban at a skill directory, a GitHub repository link or SKILL.md content. It first challenges whether the skill is worth polishing, searches the web for peer skills to place it in its niche, and scores it with three measures: structure, tested behavior and a live check. It then offers three polishing directions with a recommendation, and changes nothing until you choose one.

Edits are made against a frozen baseline, one commit and one aspect at a time, and are kept only if they pass a validation gate. The deliverables are a 13-section polishing report with a peer comparison table that includes URLs, a shareable certificate showing before and after scores, and verification tools and project rules saved into your repository. Luban stops for explicit authorization before restructuring positioning, merging to the default branch, tagging a release or deploying anything users can see. Its first job took the ai-news-radar project from v0.6 to v0.7.0 with four merged pull requests.

Key features

Five actions: check the material, visit peers, measure, slow planing and rework
A 13-section polishing report with a URL-backed peer comparison table
A shareable certificate with before and after scores
Baseline frozen before edits, with changes kept only if they pass a validation gate
Hard stop points that require explicit authorization
Installs from the npx skills tool, the Claude Code marketplace or hermes skills install

When to use it

Preparing a working skill for public release on GitHub
Finding out why a published skill gets few installs
Benchmarking a skill against similar ones before improving it

Who it is for: Skill authors who want to turn a personal skill into one other people can install and trust.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

It lists Hermes Agent as an install target with its own command, alongside Claude Code and the npx skills installer.

How to install Luban

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

npx skills add LearnPrompt/luban-skill -g
hermes skills install LearnPrompt/luban-skill

FAQ

What is Luban?

Luban is an agent skill that polishes other agent skills. It checks whether a skill is worth improving, researches peer skills, scores the skill, and applies changes only when they pass verification.

Does Luban work with Hermes Agent?

Yes. The README gives the command hermes skills install LearnPrompt/luban-skill, and a manual route that copies the skills/luban folder into ~/.hermes/skills/productivity/luban.

Will Luban change my skill straight away?

No. It runs the material check, peer research and scoring first, offers three polishing directions with a recommendation, and does not edit a line until you pick one.