Design Judge Skills: skill pack for Hermes Agent

Agent Skills for design award research, evaluation, award matching, entry writing and submission checks

What Design Judge Skills does

The repository splits design award work into separate skills. design-award-search finds and verifies winners in the same category, design-evaluation scores the design itself and how it is presented, design-award-match compares awards and categories, design-information-prep drafts entry text from the user's materials, and design-submission-check tests a submission against the current official rules. A design-award-pipeline skill chooses which of them to run, and design-judge-shared holds common reference data.

The skills keep facts, model inferences and items awaiting user confirmation apart, and they re-check official award pages for deadlines, fees and eligibility at run time. Configured awards include iF DESIGN AWARD, Red Dot, IDEA, DIA, K-Design, GOOD DESIGN AWARD Japan, Core77, James Dyson and EPDA. Scores are described as decision aids, not winning probabilities. The main README is in Chinese, with English and Japanese versions linked.

Key features

Six task skills: pipeline, search, evaluation, award match, information prep and submission check
Evidence-based scoring that separates design quality from presentation
Run-time checks of official pages for deadlines, fees and eligibility
Coverage of iF, Red Dot, IDEA, DIA, K-Design, GOOD DESIGN Japan, Core77, James Dyson and EPDA
Go, conditional go or no-go verdict from the submission check

When to use it

Finding verified winners in the same category as a product design
Choosing which design awards and tracks fit a student concept
Drafting English award entry text with a list of missing facts
Final check of a submission package before the deadline

Who it is for: Designers, students and design teams preparing entries for international design awards.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

Packaged as Agent Skills and tagged hermes-agent; the README documents installs through npx skills, Claude Code and Codex rather than a Hermes-specific guide.

How to install Design Judge Skills

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

npx skills add SeanJ1ang/design-judge-skills --list
npx skills add SeanJ1ang/design-judge-skills --all

Requirements: Node.js 18 or newer for the npx skills install

FAQ

What is Design Judge Skills?

Design Judge Skills is a set of Agent Skills for design award work. It searches past winners, evaluates a design, matches awards and categories, prepares entry text and checks a submission against official rules.

Does Design Judge Skills work with Hermes Agent?

The repository is tagged hermes-agent and is built from standard Agent Skills, but the README gives install steps for npx skills, Claude Code and Codex rather than a Hermes-specific guide. The npx skills command with the --all flag installs to every agent that CLI supports.

How do I install Design Judge Skills?

Run npx skills add SeanJ1ang/design-judge-skills --list to see the skills, then npx skills add SeanJ1ang/design-judge-skills --all to install them for every supported agent. This needs Node.js 18 or newer, and installing a single skill such as design-award-search also needs design-judge-shared.