Hermes's skill loader (agent/skill_utils.skill_matches_platform) already honors
the 'platforms:' frontmatter field and skip-loads skills whose declared
platform list doesn't include sys.platform. Seven bundled skills are in fact
Linux/macOS-only but never declared it, so they leak into Windows skill
listings and sometimes load with broken instructions.
Audited all 160 SKILL.md files (skills/ + optional-skills/) for Windows-
hostile signals: apt-get/brew/systemd/chmod+x install flows, ptrace/proc
runtime dependencies, bash-only launcher scripts, and package dependencies
with no Windows build. The 7 below fail one or more of those tests in a way
that fundamentally can't be papered over by docs edits:
minecraft-modpack-server bash start.sh + chmod +x + apt openjdk
evaluating-llms-harness lm-eval-harness bash launcher scripts
distributed-llm-pretraining-
torchtitan bash multi-node torchrun launcher
python-debugpy remote attach relies on /proc ptrace_scope
pytorch-fsdp NCCL backend; Windows path is WSL only
tensorrt-llm NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM has no Windows build
searxng-search Docker volume flow assumes POSIX $(pwd)
All seven get 'platforms: [linux, macos]'. On Windows the loader now skips
them silently — no more phantom skill listings, no more mid-task failures
because an Apple-only path was surfaced as a suggestion.
Cross-platform skills that merely CONTAIN signals in examples or
install-instructions (brew install as one of several paths, /tmp/ in a code
snippet, etc.) are NOT touched by this commit. A broader audit that
declares the ~140 cross-platform skills as 'platforms: [linux, macos,
windows]' can follow as a separate change once each has been verified
working on Windows.
The installed user copies under ~/AppData/Local/hermes/skills/ (when they
exist) are also patched so the running session reflects the gating
immediately, but only the in-repo files are committed here.
Closes the remaining gaps from PR #11562 that weren't covered by the
core SearXNG integration landed in #20823.
- optional-skills/research/searxng-search/ — installable skill with
SKILL.md (curl-based usage, category support, Python example) and
searxng.sh helper script for health checks and instance queries
- website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md — SearXNG added to the
Web Search Backends section (5 backends, backend table, per-capability
split config example, correct search-only note)
- website/docs/reference/environment-variables.md — SEARXNG_URL row
- website/docs/reference/optional-skills-catalog.md — searxng-search entry
The core SearXNG code, OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS, hermes tools picker, and tests
were already on main via #20823. This commit is purely additive docs +
the optional skill scaffold.
Credits from #11562 salvage:
@w4rum — original _searxng_search structure
@nathansdev — tools_config.py integration
@moyomartin — category support and result formatting
@0xMihai — config/env var approach
@nicobailon — skill and documentation structure
@searxng-fan — error handling patterns
@local-first — self-hosted-first philosophy and docs
