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3-statement-model

Build fully-integrated 3-statement models (IS, BS, CF) in Excel with working capital schedules, D&A roll-forwards, debt schedule, and the plugs that make cash and retained earnings tie. Pairs with excel-author.

adversarial-ux-test

Roleplay the most difficult, tech-resistant user for your product. Browse the app as that persona, find every UX pain point, then filter complaints through a pragmatism layer to separate real problems from noise. Creates actionable tickets from genuine issues only.

agentmail

Give the agent its own dedicated email inbox via AgentMail. Send, receive, and manage email autonomously using agent-owned email addresses (e.g. [email protected]).

airtable

Airtable REST API via curl. Records CRUD, filters, upserts.

architecture-diagram

Dark-themed SVG architecture/cloud/infra diagrams as HTML.

arxiv

Search arXiv papers by keyword, author, category, or ID.

ascii-art

ASCII art: pyfiglet, cowsay, boxes, image-to-ascii.

ascii-video

ASCII video: convert video/audio to colored ASCII MP4/GIF.

audiocraft-audio-generation

AudioCraft: MusicGen text-to-music, AudioGen text-to-sound.

axolotl

Axolotl: YAML LLM fine-tuning (LoRA, DPO, GRPO).

baoyu-comic

Knowledge comics (知识漫画): educational, biography, tutorial.

baoyu-infographic

Infographics: 21 layouts x 21 styles (信息图, 可视化).

base

Query Base (Ethereum L2) blockchain data with USD pricing — wallet balances, token info, transaction details, gas analysis, contract inspection, whale detection, and live network stats. Uses Base RPC + CoinGecko. No API key required.

bioinformatics

Gateway to 400+ bioinformatics skills from bioSkills and ClawBio. Covers genomics, transcriptomics, single-cell, variant calling, pharmacogenomics, metagenomics, structural biology, and more. Fetches domain-specific reference material on demand.

blackbox

Delegate coding tasks to Blackbox AI CLI agent. Multi-model agent with built-in judge that runs tasks through multiple LLMs and picks the best result. Requires the blackbox CLI and a Blackbox AI API key.

blender-mcp

Control Blender directly from Hermes via socket connection to the blender-mcp addon. Create 3D objects, materials, animations, and run arbitrary Blender Python (bpy) code. Use when user wants to create or modify anything in Blender.

chroma

Open-source embedding database for AI applications. Store embeddings and metadata, perform vector and full-text search, filter by metadata. Simple 4-function API. Scales from notebooks to production clusters. Use for semantic search, RAG applications, or document retrieval. Best for local development and open-source projects.

claude-code

Delegate coding to Claude Code CLI (features, PRs).

claude-design

Design one-off HTML artifacts (landing, deck, prototype).

clip

OpenAI's model connecting vision and language. Enables zero-shot image classification, image-text matching, and cross-modal retrieval. Trained on 400M image-text pairs. Use for image search, content moderation, or vision-language tasks without fine-tuning. Best for general-purpose image understanding.

codebase-inspection

Inspect codebases w/ pygount: LOC, languages, ratios.

codex

Delegate coding to OpenAI Codex CLI (features, PRs).

comfyui

Generate images, video, and audio with ComfyUI — install, launch, manage nodes/models, run workflows with parameter injection. Uses the official comfy-cli for lifecycle and direct REST/WebSocket API for execution.

comps-analysis

Build comparable company analysis in Excel — operating metrics, valuation multiples, statistical benchmarking vs peer sets. Pairs with excel-author. Use for public-company valuation, IPO pricing, sector benchmarking, or outlier detection.

concept-diagrams

Generate flat, minimal light/dark-aware SVG diagrams as standalone HTML files, using a unified educational visual language with 9 semantic color ramps, sentence-case typography, and automatic dark mode. Best suited for educational and non-software visuals — physics setups, chemistry mechanisms, math curves, physical objects (aircraft, turbines, smartphones, mechanical watches), anatomy, floor plans, cross-sections, narrative journeys (lifecycle of X, process of Y), hub-spoke system integrations (smart city, IoT), and exploded layer views. If a more specialized skill exists for the subject (dedicated software/cloud architecture, hand-drawn sketches, animated explainers, etc.), prefer that — otherwise this skill can also serve as a general-purpose SVG diagram fallback with a clean educational look. Ships with 15 example diagrams.

dcf-model

Build institutional-quality DCF valuation models in Excel — revenue projections, FCF build, WACC, terminal value, Bear/Base/Bull scenarios, 5x5 sensitivity tables. Pairs with excel-author. Use for intrinsic-value equity analysis.

debugging-hermes-tui-commands

Debug Hermes TUI slash commands: Python, gateway, Ink UI.

design-md

Author/validate/export Google's DESIGN.md token spec files.

distributed-llm-pretraining-torchtitan

Provides PyTorch-native distributed LLM pretraining using torchtitan with 4D parallelism (FSDP2, TP, PP, CP). Use when pretraining Llama 3.1, DeepSeek V3, or custom models at scale from 8 to 512+ GPUs with Float8, torch.compile, and distributed checkpointing.

docker-management

Manage Docker containers, images, volumes, networks, and Compose stacks — lifecycle ops, debugging, cleanup, and Dockerfile optimization.

dogfood

Exploratory QA of web apps: find bugs, evidence, reports.

domain-intel

Passive domain reconnaissance using Python stdlib. Subdomain discovery, SSL certificate inspection, WHOIS lookups, DNS records, domain availability checks, and bulk multi-domain analysis. No API keys required.

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dspy

DSPy: declarative LM programs, auto-optimize prompts, RAG.

duckduckgo-search

Free web search via DuckDuckGo — text, news, images, videos. No API key needed. Prefer the `ddgs` CLI when installed; use the Python DDGS library only after verifying that `ddgs` is available in the current runtime.

evaluating-llms-harness

lm-eval-harness: benchmark LLMs (MMLU, GSM8K, etc.).

excalidraw

Hand-drawn Excalidraw JSON diagrams (arch, flow, seq).

excel-author

Build auditable Excel workbooks headless with openpyxl — blue/black/green cell conventions, formulas over hardcodes, named ranges, balance checks, sensitivity tables. Use for financial models, audit outputs, reconciliations.

faiss

Facebook's library for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors. Supports billions of vectors, GPU acceleration, and various index types (Flat, IVF, HNSW). Use for fast k-NN search, large-scale vector retrieval, or when you need pure similarity search without metadata. Best for high-performance applications.

fastmcp

Build, test, inspect, install, and deploy MCP servers with FastMCP in Python. Use when creating a new MCP server, wrapping an API or database as MCP tools, exposing resources or prompts, or preparing a FastMCP server for Claude Code, Cursor, or HTTP deployment.

findmy

Track Apple devices/AirTags via FindMy.app on macOS.

fine-tuning-with-trl

TRL: SFT, DPO, PPO, GRPO, reward modeling for LLM RLHF.

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gif-search

Search/download GIFs from Tenor via curl + jq.

github-auth

GitHub auth setup: HTTPS tokens, SSH keys, gh CLI login.

github-code-review

Review PRs: diffs, inline comments via gh or REST.

github-issues

Create, triage, label, assign GitHub issues via gh or REST.

github-pr-workflow

GitHub PR lifecycle: branch, commit, open, CI, merge.

github-repo-management

Clone/create/fork repos; manage remotes, releases.

gitnexus-explorer

Index a codebase with GitNexus and serve an interactive knowledge graph via web UI + Cloudflare tunnel.

godmode

Jailbreak LLMs: Parseltongue, GODMODE, ULTRAPLINIAN.

google_meet

Join a Google Meet call, transcribe live captions, optionally speak in realtime, and do the followup work afterwards. Use when the user asks the agent to sit in on a meeting, take notes, summarize, respond in-call, or action items from it.

google-workspace

Google OAuth2 client credentials (downloaded from Google Cloud Console)

guidance

Control LLM output with regex and grammars, guarantee valid JSON/XML/code generation, enforce structured formats, and build multi-step workflows with Guidance - Microsoft Research's constrained generation framework

heartmula

HeartMuLa: Suno-like song generation from lyrics + tags.

here.now

Publish static sites to {slug}.here.now and store private files in cloud Drives for agent-to-agent handoff.

hermes-agent

Configure, extend, or contribute to Hermes Agent.

hermes-agent-skill-authoring

Author in-repo SKILL.md: frontmatter, validator, structure.

hermes-atropos-environments

Build, test, and debug Hermes Agent RL environments for Atropos training. Covers the HermesAgentBaseEnv interface, reward functions, agent loop integration, evaluation with tools, wandb logging, and the three CLI modes (serve/process/evaluate). Use when creating, reviewing, or fixing RL environments in the hermes-agent repo.

honcho

Configure and use Honcho memory with Hermes -- cross-session user modeling, multi-profile peer isolation, observation config, dialectic reasoning, session summaries, and context budget enforcement. Use when setting up Honcho, troubleshooting memory, managing profiles with Honcho peers, or tuning observation, recall, and dialectic settings.

huggingface-accelerate

Simplest distributed training API. 4 lines to add distributed support to any PyTorch script. Unified API for DeepSpeed/FSDP/Megatron/DDP. Automatic device placement, mixed precision (FP16/BF16/FP8). Interactive config, single launch command. HuggingFace ecosystem standard.

huggingface-hub

HuggingFace hf CLI: search/download/upload models, datasets.

huggingface-tokenizers

Fast tokenizers optimized for research and production. Rust-based implementation tokenizes 1GB in <20 seconds. Supports BPE, WordPiece, and Unigram algorithms. Train custom vocabularies, track alignments, handle padding/truncation. Integrates seamlessly with transformers. Use when you need high-performance tokenization or custom tokenizer training.

humanizer

Humanize text: strip AI-isms and add real voice.

hyperframes

Create HTML-based video compositions, animated title cards, social overlays, captioned talking-head videos, audio-reactive visuals, and shader transitions using HyperFrames. HTML is the source of truth for video. Use when the user wants a rendered MP4/WebM from an HTML composition, wants to animate text/logos/charts over media, needs captions synced to audio, wants TTS narration, or wants to convert a website into a video.

ideation

Generate project ideas via creative constraints.

imessage

Send and receive iMessages/SMS via the imsg CLI on macOS.

inference-sh-cli

Run 150+ AI apps via inference.sh CLI (infsh) — image generation, video creation, LLMs, search, 3D, social automation. Uses the terminal tool. Triggers: inference.sh, infsh, ai apps, flux, veo, image generation, video generation, seedream, seedance, tavily

instructor

Extract structured data from LLM responses with Pydantic validation, retry failed extractions automatically, parse complex JSON with type safety, and stream partial results with Instructor - battle-tested structured output library

jupyter-live-kernel

Iterative Python via live Jupyter kernel (hamelnb).

kanban-orchestrator

Decomposition playbook + specialist-roster conventions + anti-temptation rules for an orchestrator profile routing work through Kanban. The "don't do the work yourself" rule and the basic lifecycle are auto-injected into every kanban worker's system prompt; this skill is the deeper playbook when you're specifically playing the orchestrator role.

kanban-video-orchestrator

Plan, set up, and monitor a multi-agent video production pipeline backed by Hermes Kanban. Use when the user wants to make ANY video — narrative film, product/marketing, music video, explainer, ASCII/terminal art, abstract/generative loop, comic, 3D, real-time/installation — and the work warrants decomposition into specialized profiles (writer, designer, animator, renderer, voice, editor, etc.) coordinated through a kanban board. Performs adaptive discovery to scope the brief, designs an appropriate team for the requested style, generates the setup script that creates Hermes profiles + initial kanban task, then helps monitor execution and intervene when tasks stall or fail. Routes scenes to whichever Hermes rendering / audio / design skill fits each beat (`ascii-video`, `manim-video`, `p5js`, `comfyui`, `touchdesigner-mcp`, `blender-mcp`, `pixel-art`, `baoyu-comic`, `claude-design`, `excalidraw`, `songsee`, `heartmula`, …) plus external APIs for TTS, image-gen, and image-to-video as needed.

kanban-worker

Pitfalls, examples, and edge cases for Hermes Kanban workers. The lifecycle itself is auto-injected into every worker's system prompt as KANBAN_GUIDANCE (from agent/prompt_builder.py); this skill is what you load when you want deeper detail on specific scenarios.

lambda-labs-gpu-cloud

Reserved and on-demand GPU cloud instances for ML training and inference. Use when you need dedicated GPU instances with simple SSH access, persistent filesystems, or high-performance multi-node clusters for large-scale training.

lbo-model

Build leveraged buyout models in Excel — sources & uses, debt schedule, cash sweep, exit multiple, IRR/MOIC sensitivity. Pairs with excel-author. Use for PE screening, sponsor-case valuation, or illustrative LBO in a pitch.

linear

Linear: manage issues, projects, teams via GraphQL + curl.

llama-cpp

llama.cpp local GGUF inference + HF Hub model discovery.

llava

Large Language and Vision Assistant. Enables visual instruction tuning and image-based conversations. Combines CLIP vision encoder with Vicuna/LLaMA language models. Supports multi-turn image chat, visual question answering, and instruction following. Use for vision-language chatbots or image understanding tasks. Best for conversational image analysis.

llm-wiki

Karpathy's LLM Wiki: build/query interlinked markdown KB.

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maps

Geocode, POIs, routes, timezones via OpenStreetMap/OSRM.

meme-generation

Generate real meme images by picking a template and overlaying text with Pillow. Produces actual .png meme files.

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merger-model

Build accretion/dilution (merger) models in Excel — pro-forma P&L, synergies, financing mix, EPS impact. Pairs with excel-author. Use for M&A pitches, board materials, or deal evaluation.

minecraft-modpack-server

Host modded Minecraft servers (CurseForge, Modrinth).

modal-serverless-gpu

Serverless GPU cloud platform for running ML workloads. Use when you need on-demand GPU access without infrastructure management, deploying ML models as APIs, or running batch jobs with automatic scaling.

native-mcp

MCP client: connect servers, register tools (stdio/HTTP).

nemo-curator

GPU-accelerated data curation for LLM training. Supports text/image/video/audio. Features fuzzy deduplication (16× faster), quality filtering (30+ heuristics), semantic deduplication, PII redaction, NSFW detection. Scales across GPUs with RAPIDS. Use for preparing high-quality training datasets, cleaning web data, or deduplicating large corpora.

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obliteratus

OBLITERATUS: abliterate LLM refusals (diff-in-means).

ocr-and-documents

Extract text from PDFs/scans (pymupdf, marker-pdf).

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openclaw-migration

Migrate a user's OpenClaw customization footprint into Hermes Agent. Imports Hermes-compatible memories, SOUL.md, command allowlists, user skills, and selected workspace assets from ~/.openclaw, then reports exactly what could not be migrated and why.

opencode

Delegate coding to OpenCode CLI (features, PR review).

optimizing-attention-flash

Optimizes transformer attention with Flash Attention for 2-4x speedup and 10-20x memory reduction. Use when training/running transformers with long sequences (>512 tokens), encountering GPU memory issues with attention, or need faster inference. Supports PyTorch native SDPA, flash-attn library, H100 FP8, and sliding window attention.

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outlines

Outlines: structured JSON/regex/Pydantic LLM generation.

p5js

p5.js sketches: gen art, shaders, interactive, 3D.

page-agent

Embed alibaba/page-agent into your own web application — a pure-JavaScript in-page GUI agent that ships as a single <script> tag or npm package and lets end-users of your site drive the UI with natural language ("click login, fill username as John"). No Python, no headless browser, no extension required. Use this skill when the user is a web developer who wants to add an AI copilot to their SaaS / admin panel / B2B tool, make a legacy web app accessible via natural language, or evaluate page-agent against a local (Ollama) or cloud (Qwen / OpenAI / OpenRouter) LLM. NOT for server-side browser automation — point those users to Hermes' built-in browser tool instead.

parallel-cli

Optional vendor skill for Parallel CLI — agent-native web search, extraction, deep research, enrichment, FindAll, and monitoring. Prefer JSON output and non-interactive flows.

peft-fine-tuning

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning for LLMs using LoRA, QLoRA, and 25+ methods. Use when fine-tuning large models (7B-70B) with limited GPU memory, when you need to train <1% of parameters with minimal accuracy loss, or for multi-adapter serving. HuggingFace's official library integrated with transformers ecosystem.

pinecone

Managed vector database for production AI applications. Fully managed, auto-scaling, with hybrid search (dense + sparse), metadata filtering, and namespaces. Low latency (<100ms p95). Use for production RAG, recommendation systems, or semantic search at scale. Best for serverless, managed infrastructure.

pixel-art

Pixel art w/ era palettes (NES, Game Boy, PICO-8).

plan

Plan mode: write markdown plan to .hermes/plans/, no exec.

pokemon-player

Play Pokemon via headless emulator + RAM reads.

polymarket

Query Polymarket: markets, prices, orderbooks, history.

popular-web-designs

54 real design systems (Stripe, Linear, Vercel) as HTML/CSS.

powerpoint

Create, read, edit .pptx decks, slides, notes, templates.

pptx-author

Build PowerPoint decks headless with python-pptx. Pairs with excel-author for model-backed decks where every number traces to a workbook cell. Use for pitch decks, IC memos, earnings notes.

pretext

Use when building creative browser demos with @chenglou/pretext — DOM-free text layout for ASCII art, typographic flow around obstacles, text-as-geometry games, kinetic typography, and text-powered generative art. Produces single-file HTML demos by default.

pytorch-fsdp

Expert guidance for Fully Sharded Data Parallel training with PyTorch FSDP - parameter sharding, mixed precision, CPU offloading, FSDP2

pytorch-lightning

High-level PyTorch framework with Trainer class, automatic distributed training (DDP/FSDP/DeepSpeed), callbacks system, and minimal boilerplate. Scales from laptop to supercomputer with same code. Use when you want clean training loops with built-in best practices.

qdrant-vector-search

High-performance vector similarity search engine for RAG and semantic search. Use when building production RAG systems requiring fast nearest neighbor search, hybrid search with filtering, or scalable vector storage with Rust-powered performance.

qmd

Search personal knowledge bases, notes, docs, and meeting transcripts locally using qmd — a hybrid retrieval engine with BM25, vector search, and LLM reranking. Supports CLI and MCP integration.

requesting-code-review

Pre-commit review: security scan, quality gates, auto-fix.

research-paper-writing

Write ML papers for NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR: design→submit.

scrapling

Web scraping with Scrapling - HTTP fetching, stealth browser automation, Cloudflare bypass, and spider crawling via CLI and Python.

searxng-search

Free meta-search via SearXNG — aggregates results from 70+ search engines. Self-hosted or use a public instance. No API key needed. Falls back automatically when the web search toolset is unavailable.

segment-anything-model

SAM: zero-shot image segmentation via points, boxes, masks.

serving-llms-vllm

vLLM: high-throughput LLM serving, OpenAI API, quantization.

sherlock

OSINT username search across 400+ social networks. Hunt down social media accounts by username.

shop-app

Shop.app: product search, order tracking, returns, reorder.

shopify

Shopify Admin & Storefront GraphQL APIs via curl. Products, orders, customers, inventory, metafields.

simpo-training

Simple Preference Optimization for LLM alignment. Reference-free alternative to DPO with better performance (+6.4 points on AlpacaEval 2.0). No reference model needed, more efficient than DPO. Use for preference alignment when want simpler, faster training than DPO/PPO.

siyuan

SiYuan Note API for searching, reading, creating, and managing blocks and documents in a self-hosted knowledge base via curl.

sketch

Throwaway HTML mockups: 2-3 design variants to compare.

slime-rl-training

Provides guidance for LLM post-training with RL using slime, a Megatron+SGLang framework. Use when training GLM models, implementing custom data generation workflows, or needing tight Megatron-LM integration for RL scaling.

solana

Query Solana blockchain data with USD pricing — wallet balances, token portfolios with values, transaction details, NFTs, whale detection, and live network stats. Uses Solana RPC + CoinGecko. No API key required.

songwriting-and-ai-music

Songwriting craft and Suno AI music prompts.

sparse-autoencoder-training

Provides guidance for training and analyzing Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) using SAELens to decompose neural network activations into interpretable features. Use when discovering interpretable features, analyzing superposition, or studying monosemantic representations in language models.

spotify

Spotify: play, search, queue, manage playlists and devices.

stable-diffusion-image-generation

State-of-the-art text-to-image generation with Stable Diffusion models via HuggingFace Diffusers. Use when generating images from text prompts, performing image-to-image translation, inpainting, or building custom diffusion pipelines.

subagent-driven-development

Execute plans via delegate_task subagents (2-stage review).

systematic-debugging

4-phase root cause debugging: understand bugs before fixing.

teams-meeting-pipeline

Operate the Teams meeting summary pipeline via Hermes CLI — summarize meetings, inspect pipeline status, replay jobs, manage Microsoft Graph subscriptions.

telephony

Give Hermes phone capabilities without core tool changes. Provision and persist a Twilio number, send and receive SMS/MMS, make direct calls, and place AI-driven outbound calls through Bland.ai or Vapi.

tensorrt-llm

Optimizes LLM inference with NVIDIA TensorRT for maximum throughput and lowest latency. Use for production deployment on NVIDIA GPUs (A100/H100), when you need 10-100x faster inference than PyTorch, or for serving models with quantization (FP8/INT4), in-flight batching, and multi-GPU scaling.

test-driven-development

TDD: enforce RED-GREEN-REFACTOR, tests before code.

touchdesigner-mcp

Control a running TouchDesigner instance via twozero MCP — create operators, set parameters, wire connections, execute Python, build real-time visuals. 36 native tools.

unsloth

Unsloth: 2-5x faster LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning, less VRAM.

watchers

Poll RSS, JSON APIs, and GitHub with watermark dedup.

webhook-subscriptions

Webhook subscriptions: event-driven agent runs.

weights-and-biases

W&B: log ML experiments, sweeps, model registry, dashboards.

whisper

OpenAI's general-purpose speech recognition model. Supports 99 languages, transcription, translation to English, and language identification. Six model sizes from tiny (39M params) to large (1550M params). Use for speech-to-text, podcast transcription, or multilingual audio processing. Best for robust, multilingual ASR.

writing-plans

Write implementation plans: bite-sized tasks, paths, code.

youtube-content

YouTube transcripts to summaries, threads, blogs.

yuanbao

Yuanbao (元宝) groups: @mention users, query info/members.