Brooklyn Skills

What Brooklyn Skills does

Brooklyn Skills is a repository of portable SKILL.md packages with no harness-specific commands, hooks, adapters or setup scripts. You give your agent the repository URL and ask it to install one skill, several named skills or all of them, copying each directory under skills/ as a complete unit. Skills named in the README include pr-triage, pr-ready, clean, cpr, pr-update, babysit, triage, research and visual-verify.

On Hermes Agent you can skip copying: clone the repository and add its skills directory to skills.external_dirs in ~/.hermes/config.yaml, so git pull is the update path and every skill shows up as a slash command. A separate defaults.md holds always-on baseline behaviors, meant to be appended to ~/.hermes/SOUL.md for Hermes, to AGENTS.md for Claude Code and Codex, or to a Cursor rules file. The README states that no commands, hooks, secrets or machine state are included.

Key features

• Portable SKILL.md packages with no harness-specific hooks, adapters or setup scripts
• Hermes Agent loads them through skills.external_dirs in ~/.hermes/config.yaml, so each skill becomes a slash command
• Pull request workflow skills such as pr-triage, pr-ready, cpr and pr-update
• A triage skill that investigates against main, deduplicates and gives a verdict
• defaults.md of always-on behaviors, appendable to SOUL.md, AGENTS.md or a Cursor rules file

When to use it

• Adding pull request triage and CI-watching workflows to Hermes without copying files
• Sharing one skill set between Hermes Agent, Claude Code, Codex and Cursor
• Keeping baseline agent behaviors in SOUL.md by appending defaults.md

Who it is for: Developers who use Hermes Agent or other coding agents and want ready-made engineering workflow skills.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

The skills use the portable SKILL.md format, and the README documents Hermes-specific setup: skills.external_dirs for the skills and ~/.hermes/SOUL.md for defaults.md.

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