Extends the Windows-gating work to the optional-skills/ tree. Every
SKILL.md that previously omitted the platforms: field now carries an
explicit declaration, which Hermes's loader (agent.skill_utils.
skill_matches_platform) honors to skip-load on incompatible OSes.
58 skills declared cross-platform (platforms: [linux, macos, windows]):
autonomous-ai-agents/blackbox, autonomous-ai-agents/honcho
blockchain/base, blockchain/solana
communication/one-three-one-rule
creative/blender-mcp, creative/concept-diagrams, creative/hyperframes,
creative/kanban-video-orchestrator, creative/meme-generation
devops/cli (inference-sh-cli), devops/docker-management
dogfood/adversarial-ux-test
email/agentmail
finance/3-statement-model, finance/comps-analysis, finance/dcf-model,
finance/excel-author, finance/lbo-model, finance/merger-model,
finance/pptx-author
health/fitness-nutrition, health/neuroskill-bci
mcp/fastmcp, mcp/mcporter
migration/openclaw-migration
mlops/accelerate, mlops/chroma, mlops/clip, mlops/guidance,
mlops/hermes-atropos-environments, mlops/huggingface-tokenizers,
mlops/instructor, mlops/lambda-labs, mlops/llava, mlops/modal,
mlops/peft, mlops/pinecone, mlops/pytorch-lightning, mlops/qdrant,
mlops/saelens, mlops/simpo, mlops/stable-diffusion
productivity/canvas, productivity/shop-app, productivity/shopify,
productivity/siyuan, productivity/telephony
research/domain-intel, research/drug-discovery, research/duckduckgo-search,
research/gitnexus-explorer, research/parallel-cli, research/scrapling
security/1password, security/oss-forensics, security/sherlock
web-development/page-agent
5 skills gated from Windows (platforms: [linux, macos]):
mlops/flash-attention - Flash Attention wheels are Linux-first; Windows
install requires building from source with CUDA
mlops/faiss - faiss-gpu has no Windows wheel; gate rather than
leak partial (faiss-cpu) support
mlops/nemo-curator - NVIDIA NeMo ecosystem has no first-class Windows path
mlops/slime - Megatron+SGLang RL stack is Linux-only in practice
mlops/whisper - openai-whisper + ffmpeg setup on Windows is
non-trivial; gate until Windows install stanza lands
Methodology: scanned every SKILL.md for Windows-hostile signals
(apt-get, brew, systemd, osascript, ptrace, X11 binaries, POSIX-only
Python APIs, Docker POSIX $(pwd) bind-mounts, explicit 'linux-only' /
'macos-only' text). 3 skills flagged as having hard signals on review:
docker-management and qdrant only had POSIX $(pwd) docker examples and
the tools themselves (Docker Desktop, Qdrant) run fine on Windows —
declared ALL. whisper had an apt/brew ffmpeg install path and nothing
else but the openai-whisper Windows install story is rough enough to
warrant gating.
Strict-over-lenient policy: when in doubt, gate. Easier to un-gate after
verified Windows support lands than to leak partial support that
manifests as mid-task failures for Windows users.
Adds 7 optional skills under optional-skills/finance/ adapted from
anthropics/financial-services (Apache-2.0):
excel-author — openpyxl conventions: blue/black/green cells,
formulas over hardcodes, named ranges, balance
checks, sensitivity tables. Ships recalc.py.
pptx-author — python-pptx for model-backed decks (pitch,
IC memo, earnings note) that bind every number
to a source workbook cell.
dcf-model — institutional DCF (49KB skill): projections,
WACC, terminal value, Bear/Base/Bull scenarios,
5x5 sensitivity tables. Ships validate_dcf.py.
comps-analysis — comparable company analysis: operating metrics,
multiples, statistical benchmarking.
lbo-model — leveraged buyout: S&U, debt schedule, cash
sweep, exit multiple, IRR/MOIC sensitivity.
3-statement-model — fully-integrated IS/BS/CF with balance-check
plugs. Ships references/ for formatting,
formulas, SEC filings.
merger-model — accretion/dilution analysis for M&A.
All seven are optional (not active by default). Users install via
'hermes skills install official/finance/<skill>'.
Hermesification:
- Stripped every Office JS / Office Add-in / mcp__office__*
branch — skills assume headless openpyxl only.
- Replaced Cowork MCP data-source instructions with 'MCP first (via
native-mcp), fall back to web_search/web_extract against SEC EDGAR
and user-provided data'.
- Swapped Claude tool references (Bash, Read, Write, Edit, mcp__*)
for Hermes-native equivalents and Python library calls.
- Canonical Hermes frontmatter (name/description/version/author/
license/metadata.hermes.{tags,related_skills}).
- Descriptions tightened to 187-238 chars, trigger-first.
- Attribution preserved: author field credits 'Anthropic (adapted by
Nous Research)', license: Apache-2.0, each SKILL.md links back to
the upstream source directory.
Verification:
- All 7 discovered by OptionalSkillSource with source_id='official'
- Bundle fetch includes support files (scripts, references, troubleshooting)
- related_skills cross-refs all resolve within the bundle
- No Claude product / Cowork / Office JS / /mnt/skills leakage
remains in body text (bounded mentions only in attribution blocks)
Source: https://github.com/anthropics/financial-services (Apache-2.0)
