Agent skill · software engineering · aradotso
awesome-hermes-agent
awesome-hermes-agent — an agent skill for coding agents.
Why this skill is useful
Provides specific commands and configuration patterns for deploying and integrating the Hermes Agent, which are not widely known.
What it needs
Requires python installed locally. Requires anthropic, openai, openrouter account access. About 7k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-07-09. 70 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
bash Clone the core project git clone https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent cd hermes-agent Install dependencies (Python-based) pip install -e . Or with uv (faster) uv pip install -e . bash Copy example config cp .env.example .env Required: Set your model provider API key export OPENAIAPIKEY=yourkeyhere # or export ANTHROPICAPIKEY=yourkeyhere # or export OPENROUTERAPIKEY=yourkeyhere Optional: Telegram gateway export TELEGRAMBOTTOKEN=yourtokenhere Optional: Discord gateway export DISCORDBOTTOKEN=yourtokenhere env Model backend OPENROUTERAPIKEY=sk-or-... DEFAULTMODEL=openai/gpt-4o Memory / skills storage HERMESDATADIR=~/.hermes Messaging gateway (pick one or more) TELEGRAMBOTTOKEN=... DISCORDBOTTOKEN=... bash Start an interactive session hermes chat Run in daemon mode (background, messaging gateway active) hermes serve List installed skills hermes skills list Install a skill from a path or URL hermes skills install ./my-skill hermes skills install https://github.com/user/repo Run a single task non-interactively hermes run "summarize the last 10 git commits" Search conversation memory hermes memory search "database migration" Show agent status hermes status Cron: list scheduled tasks hermes cron list Cron: add a task hermes cron add "0 9 " "send me a daily briefing" markdown --- name: my-skill description: Does X given Y triggers: "do X" "help me with Y" --- My Skill Instructions ...step-by-step instructions the agent follows... Examples ...worked examples... …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills aradotso/awesome-hermes-agent