Hermes Profiles

What Hermes Profiles does

Each profile packages a role identity in SOUL.md, a profile.yaml and the skills it depends on. The profiles directory lists roles including backend-engineer, data-scientist, debugger, orchestrator, product-manager, qa-engineer, researcher, reviewer, security-engineer and seo-specialist. A skills directory holds methodology folders such as adr-authoring, c4-diagramming, systematic-debugging, security-audit-methodology and kanban-guru.

The README calls the profiles opinionated. They follow Hermes-native patterns: an artifact-pyramid output format with progressive disclosure, methodology loaded on demand through skill_view, the Hermes kanban for orchestration and the profile system for role isolation. The profiles themselves are described as Hermes-specific and unlikely to work in other harnesses, while the skills follow the Agent Skills open standard and should work in other coding agents.

Key features

• Specialist profiles for roles from backend engineer to security engineer
• SOUL.md and profile.yaml for each role
• Methodology skills with SKILL.md and references folders
• Artifact-pyramid output with the file path as the handoff
• Designed to run with the Hermes kanban for orchestration

When to use it

• Setting up a team of specialist Hermes agents coordinated by an orchestrator profile
• Starting from a role template instead of writing a SOUL.md from scratch
• Borrowing a single methodology skill, such as systematic debugging, for another coding agent

Who it is for: Hermes Agent users building multi-agent setups who want pre-written role profiles.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

Built for Hermes Agent: the profiles rely on SOUL.md, the Hermes profile system and kanban, while the bundled skills follow the Agent Skills standard.

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