Robert Greene Skill

What Robert Greene Skill does

The skill distills a public compendium from the same author's 48-leyes-del-poder repository, which is written in Spanish, into an English skill that any Hermes session can load. Once loaded, the agent can cite any law with context, suggest the right law for a given situation, explain tensions between complementary laws and flag ethical traps in applying them. The SKILL.md includes a mandatory ethical framework that separates defensive use, applied-with-ethics use and toxic use.

The repository includes three scripts: list_laws.py prints the 48 laws, search_by_category.py searches by keyword, and validate_skill.py checks the structure without pytest. A pytest suite is also provided. The README says the material is inspired by Robert Greene's work and that the text of each law is original to this repository. It is loaded in a new Hermes session with skill_view(name='robert-greene'), because the skill loader is cached per session.

Key features

• Cite any of the 48 laws by number with context
• Recommend laws for a described situation
• Show complementary and contradictory laws
• Built-in defensive, applied-with-ethics and toxic framework
• Scripts to list laws, search by keyword and validate the skill

When to use it

• Asking the agent which law applies to a negotiation or workplace situation
• Looking up how two laws pull against each other
• Studying the laws with an explicit ethics check on each

Who it is for: Hermes Agent users who want a consultable reference for The 48 Laws of Power.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

It is a Hermes skill (repository topic hermes-skill) placed under ~/.hermes/skills/self-improvement/ and loaded with skill_view.

How to install Robert Greene Skill

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/ooovenenoso/robert-greene-skill.git
mkdir -p ~/.hermes/skills/self-improvement
ln -s "$(pwd)/robert-greene-skill/skills/self-improvement/robert-greene" \
 ~/.hermes/skills/self-improvement/robert-greene

Note: The README says the repository is published for review and is not installed in the author's own skills directory.

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