Hermes Skills

What Hermes Skills does

Hermes Skills publishes 1422 SKILL.md files plus generated routing artifacts. The README describes it as a curated export of live local Hermes runtime skills rather than a blind copy: archives, virtualenvs, vendored .git trees, credential artifacts, binary outputs, wallet and funds-adjacent automation and secret-like examples are excluded or sanitized. The largest groups are red-teaming (757 skills), community packs (494) and software-development (65).

The install route is deliberately cautious. You clone the repository, run scripts/validate_skills.py, then copy a single reviewed skill into ~/.hermes/skills with rsync, or dry-run a bulk copy with rsync -an first. The validator checks frontmatter, duplicate names, routing index parity, embedded .git repositories and common secret patterns, and warns on risk patterns such as package installs and pipe-to-shell commands. The README says it does not prove a skill is safe and tells you to treat external skills as untrusted until reviewed.

Key features

• 1422 SKILL.md files in categories from red-teaming to productivity
• Generated routing artifacts alongside the skills
• scripts/validate_skills.py checks frontmatter, duplicates and secret patterns
• Warnings for risky patterns such as pipe-to-shell commands and persistence hooks
• Strict validation mode for curating a low-risk subset
• Sync script that refreshes the repository from a local Hermes runtime

When to use it

• Browsing a large catalog of skills for coding, research and devops workflows
• Copying one reviewed skill, such as hermes-agent-sec-review, into a Hermes install
• Using the validation script as a checklist before bulk-installing community skills

Who it is for: Hermes Agent users who want a large, reviewable catalog of skills and are willing to vet them before installing.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

Built for Hermes Agent: the skills follow the SKILL.md format and are copied into Hermes' ~/.hermes/skills directory.

How to install Hermes Skills

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/Undermybelt/hermes-skills.git
cd hermes-skills
python3 scripts/validate_skills.py

Requirements: git, Python 3 for the validation script, and rsync for copying skills

Note: The README warns that some skills contain commands that write to ~/.hermes, browser state, MCP config or credential stores, and that the validator does not prove a skill is safe, so review them before use.

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