24 reusable Hermes agent skills are now open source
A set of 24 s for Hermes has been released. These skills are ready-made work steps that an agent can load only when needed, and they cover 8 areas including research, creative work, , and agent maintenance. The research skills include , profile-style research on people or groups, fact checking, source tracking, document-based , news monitoring, media analysis, and YouTube topic research.
The creative skills include staged image and through fal.ai with cost tracking, plus free stock photo lookup through Pexels. The skills include Word and Excel mail merge, travel itinerary building, decision logs, file format conversion, and a task brief that gathers the goal, context, and limits before major work starts. Each skill is self-contained, so people can copy only the ones they need.
The repository uses the and has passing CI tests on Python 3.11 through 3.13.
Key points
- 24 reusable s have been released as open source.
- The collection covers research, creative work, , and agent operations.
- Each skill can be used separately, so there is no need to adopt the full set.
- The task brief skill helps define the goal and limits before a large task begins.
- The fal.ai creative workflow includes cost tracking for image and .