Builder Essential Skills: skill pack for Hermes Agent

Reusable agent skills for planning, research, building and review, with a Hermes session profiler

What Builder Essential Skills does

Each skill lives in skills/NAME/SKILL.md, and some also ship scripts, reference material or agent definitions. Named skills include lead and lead-research, which use the subagent tools of whichever runtime runs them and probe concurrency, isolation, messaging, shell, write and web capabilities at the start of a run. Others are async-learning-teacher, map-the-landscape and paper-opportunity-radar. A runtime without native subagent delegation stops instead of letting the orchestrator write code or do research itself.

The session-profiler skill is the main Hermes link. After installation, a wrapper script under the Hermes home lists and parses sessions with --provider hermes, then reports agent summaries, costs, slowest tools, errors and turns, and can write a brief.md or a Perfetto trace. The README says cost reports are estimates from public model pricing rather than billing records, and that traces can contain prompts, code and file paths, so they should be reviewed before sharing.

Key features

Skills for planning, building, research, learning, validation, writing and review
Lead and lead-research skills that assign work by role using the host's subagent tools
Session-profiler skill with a Hermes provider option
Brief and Perfetto trace output with per-agent lanes and token and cost counters
User-level or project-level install through an npx installer or shell scripts

When to use it

Profiling slow tools and errors across Hermes sessions
Running a plan-build-review workflow with subagents in Claude Code or Codex
Installing a single skill into one repository to try it

Who it is for: Developers who use Claude Code or Codex daily and want a shared set of workflow skills, including some who also run Hermes Agent.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

Supports Hermes Agent in one skill: session-profiler reads Hermes sessions, and the repository is tagged hermes-agent. The installers themselves target Claude Code and Codex directories.

How to install Builder Essential Skills

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

npx skills add tamdogood/skills
npx skills add tamdogood/skills --skill lead
npx @tamng0905/builder-essential-skills

Requirements: Claude Code and/or Codex; Node.js 18 or newer for the npx installer; Python 3 for session-profiler

Note: The installers copy skills into Claude Code and Codex skill directories, and the README documents Hermes only for the session-profiler skill.

FAQ

What is Builder Essential Skills?

Builder Essential Skills is a collection of reusable SKILL.md workflows for planning, building, researching, learning, validating, writing and reviewing. It installs into Claude Code and Codex skill folders.

Does Builder Essential Skills work with Hermes Agent?

Partly. The session-profiler skill can list and parse Hermes sessions with --provider hermes, using a wrapper under the Hermes home. The other install instructions in the README are written for Claude Code and Codex.

How do I install Builder Essential Skills?

Run npx skills add tamdogood/skills to install the collection, or add --skill lead to install one skill. The bundled npm installer, npx @tamng0905/builder-essential-skills, installs every skill for your user account.