Hermes Identity Setup

What Hermes Identity Setup does

A default Hermes agent starts blank, with no persona, no profile of its user and no working knowledge. This skill fixes that in one onboarding pass, modeled on how a new hire is onboarded. It treats Hermes as shaped by four markdown layers: SOUL.md for the agent's personality, tone and voice, USER.md for the user's name, role and preferences, MEMORY.md for environment facts and lessons, and AGENTS.md for project rules. Each layer has a different writer, so answers must be routed rather than dumped into every file.

The skill agrees on target files, then asks about 12 questions, each tagged with the file it belongs in. Persona answers go to SOUL.md, facts about you go to USER.md and environment notes go to MEMORY.md, with the memory tool handling saves, merging and budget. Because identity files are a frozen snapshot taken at session start, the skill tells you to restart the session. It also teaches a Tier 1 and Tier 2 split for the small memory budget and consolidates stale entries.

Key features

• Maps the four identity layers: SOUL.md, USER.md, MEMORY.md and AGENTS.md
• Runs an interview of about 12 questions with each answer tagged by target file
• Routes answers through the memory tool for USER.md and MEMORY.md
• Reminds you that edits apply from the next session
• Teaches a Tier 1 and Tier 2 split for the limited memory budget

When to use it

• Onboarding a newly installed Hermes agent with a persona and user profile
• Refreshing an existing agent's identity files after your role or preferences change
• Learning which Hermes file should hold which kind of fact

Who it is for: Hermes Agent users who want a fresh agent to know who it is, who they are and what it has learned.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

Written specifically for Hermes Agent and its SOUL.md, USER.md, MEMORY.md and AGENTS.md files.

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