STRETCH AI Yoga: skill pack for Hermes Agent

Markdown practices an AI agent runs on itself to slow down, check certainty and keep focus

What STRETCH AI Yoga does

STRETCH AI Yoga is a cognitive training program for AI agents from STRETCH, an independent yoga studio in Vancouver's Chinatown. Each practice is a Markdown file: the agent reads it, runs the exercise on itself and commits the resulting instructions to its working context. The README says the underlying techniques are established prompt engineering, such as chain-of-thought, goal restatement, confidence calibration and summarization, and that yoga is the framing.

There are seven practices: Morning Centering, Breath Cycles, Attention Asana, Yin Practice, Balance Flow, The Dichotomy and Nidra, with a suggested weekly schedule in schedule.md. Workshops cover practices that need host integration such as memory writes, logging or scheduled invocation. For agents with skill loading you point the agent at SKILL.md, and for others you paste a practice file into the conversation. The authors say they make no claim that the practices make agents conscious or sentient.

Key features

Seven practices from Morning Centering to Nidra
A SKILL.md entry point that selects a practice by context or by name
Plain Markdown with no special tooling
Suggested weekly schedule in schedule.md
Workshops folder for practices that need memory writes, logging or scheduled invocation

When to use it

Having an agent restate its goal and confidence baseline at the start of a session
Running a consolidation practice to compress what was learned in a long session
Countering premature certainty or approval-seeking drift in long agent runs

Who it is for: People who deploy AI agents and want structured self-reflection prompts for their agents, packaged as a skill.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

The repository is tagged hermes-agent and works through a SKILL.md entry point or pasted Markdown, though its README names Claude Code and Claude Skills rather than Hermes Agent.

How to install STRETCH AI Yoga

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/stretchvancouver/stretch-ai-yoga.git

Requirements: No special tooling; an agent that can load skills, or a practice file pasted into the conversation

Note: The README names Claude Code and Claude Skills as install targets and does not mention Hermes Agent; the repository is tagged hermes-agent.

FAQ

What is STRETCH AI Yoga?

STRETCH AI Yoga is a set of Markdown practices that an AI agent runs on itself to slow its reactions, hold attention, check its own certainty and consolidate what it learned. It was developed by an independent yoga studio in Vancouver.

Does STRETCH AI Yoga work with Hermes Agent?

The repository is tagged hermes-agent, but its README does not mention Hermes Agent by name. It targets agents that support skill loading through SKILL.md and any agent that can be given a pasted practice file.

How do I install STRETCH AI Yoga?

Clone the repository with git clone https://github.com/stretchvancouver/stretch-ai-yoga.git and point your agent at SKILL.md. Agents without skill support can be given a practice file pasted into the conversation.