Intended placement per PR #17610 discussion — comfyui belongs in
skills/creative/ alongside other creative built-ins (touchdesigner-mcp,
pretext, sketch), not in optional-skills/.
Pure directory rename, no content changes. History preserved via git mv.
Adds Step 0 'Ask Local vs Cloud' as the very first onboarding step, with a
scripted question that spells out the hardware requirements for local
(6 GB VRAM NVIDIA, ROCm AMD on Linux, or M1+ Mac with 16 GB unified)
and routes Cloud users straight to Path A without a hardware check.
Hardware check becomes Step 1, run only when the user picked local.
Layers a programmatic hardware-feasibility check on top of the v4 skill
so the agent doesn't silently push users toward a local install they
can't actually run. The official comfy-cli supports --nvidia / --amd /
--m-series / --cpu, but has no guard against "4 GB laptop GPU on SDXL"
or "Intel Mac falling back to CPU" — both route to comfy-cli paths in
the original table and then fail on first workflow.
- scripts/hardware_check.py: detect OS/arch/GPU (NVIDIA nvidia-smi,
AMD rocm-smi, Apple M1+ via arm64+sysctl, Intel Arc via clinfo),
VRAM, system/unified RAM. Emits JSON
{verdict: ok|marginal|cloud, recommended_install_path, comfy_cli_flag}
with practical thresholds: discrete GPU >=6 GB VRAM minimum,
Apple Silicon >=16 GB unified memory minimum, Intel Mac -> cloud,
no accelerator -> cloud. comfy_cli_flag maps directly to
`comfy install` so the agent can stitch the whole flow together.
- scripts/comfyui_setup.sh: runs hardware_check.py first when no
explicit flag is passed. If verdict=cloud, refuses to install
locally, prints Comfy Cloud URL + an override command, exits 2.
Otherwise auto-selects the right --nvidia/--amd/--m-series flag
for `comfy install`. Surfaces marginal-verdict notes to the user.
- SKILL.md Setup & Onboarding: adds mandatory Step 0 "Check If This
Machine Can Run ComfyUI Locally" ahead of the Path A-E selection.
Documents the verdict thresholds inline, ties verdict + comfy_cli_flag
to the install paths, and updates the path-choice table so
"verdict: cloud" is the first row. Quick-Start "Detect Environment"
block extended to include the hardware check. Verification
checklist gains a hardware-check gate.
- Frontmatter setup.help rewritten to point at hardware_check.py
first. Version bumped 4.0.0 -> 4.1.0.
Merges pixel-art-arcade and pixel-art-snes into one pixel-art skill with
named presets (arcade, snes) + parametric overrides. The underlying
pipeline was already identical across both variants — only palette size,
block size, and enhancement strength differed. A single preset-based
function is easier to discover, maintain, and extend (adding a new era
like gameboy or nes is just another preset dict).
Contributor authorship preserved on original additive commit.
Discovered while dogfooding the skill end-to-end:
- pgrep -if "TouchDesigner" matched any shell whose command line
contained the substring (including the setup script's own invocation
under certain wrappers), falsely reporting TD running on machines
where it isn't. Switch to pgrep -x (exact process name match,
supported on both macOS and Linux) and also check TouchDesignerFTE
(the non-commercial variant).
- The embedded python3 yaml-writer printed 'added' / 'exists' to
stdout as status, which leaked a stray word into the setup output
right before the ✔ line. Drop the print()s — the bash-level ✔/✘ is
the status indicator.
- Remove orphan skills/creative/touchdesigner/references/pitfalls.md
left over from the rename commit (git add-then-edit instead of git mv
meant the old file never got deleted).
- Honour $HERMES_HOME in setup.sh and SKILL.md setup invocation so
profile-aware installs work correctly.
- Fix troubleshooting.md config path to use $HERMES_HOME instead of
hardcoding ~/.hermes/.
- Add touchdesigner-mcp entries to skills-catalog.md and
optional-skills-catalog.md for parity with blender-mcp/meme-generation.
Previous pass assumed both skills would always be loaded together, so
each description pointed at the other ('use concept-diagrams instead').
That breaks when only one skill is active — the agent reads 'use the
other skill' and there is no other skill.
Now each skill's description and scope section is fully self-contained:
- States what it's best suited for
- Lists subjects where a more specialized skill (if available) would be
a better fit, naming them only as 'consider X if available'
- Explicitly offers itself as a general SVG diagram fallback when no
more specialized skill exists
An agent loading either skill alone gets unambiguous guidance; an
agent with both loaded still gets useful routing via the 'consider X
if available' hints and the related_skills metadata.
Both skills generate SVG system diagrams, but for very different subjects
and aesthetics. The old descriptions didn't make the split clear, so an
agent loading either one couldn't confidently pick.
Changes:
- Rewrote both frontmatter descriptions to state the scope up front plus
an explicit 'for X, use the other skill instead' pointer.
- Added a symmetric 'When to use this skill vs <other>' decision table
to the top of each SKILL.md body, so the guidance is visible whether
the agent is reading frontmatter or full content.
- Added architecture-diagram <-> concept-diagrams to each other's
related_skills metadata.
Rule of thumb baked into both skills:
software/cloud infra -> architecture-diagram
physical / scientific / educational -> concept-diagrams
Salvage of PR #11045 (original by v1k22). Changes on top of the
original commit:
- Rename 'architecture-visualization-svg-diagrams' -> 'concept-diagrams'
to differentiate from the existing architecture-diagram skill.
architecture-diagram stays as the dark-themed Cocoon-style option for
software/infra; concept-diagrams covers physics, chemistry, math,
engineering, physical objects, and educational visuals.
- Trigger description scoped to actual use cases; removed the 'always
use this skill' language and long phrase-capture list to stop
colliding with architecture-diagram, excalidraw, generative-widgets,
manim-video.
- Default output is now a standalone self-contained HTML file (works
offline, no server). The preview server is opt-in and no longer part
of the default workflow.
- When the server IS used: bind to 127.0.0.1 instead of 0.0.0.0 (was a
LAN exposure hazard on shared networks) and let the OS pick a free
ephemeral port instead of hard-coding 22223 (collision prone).
- Shrink SKILL.md from 1540 to 353 lines by extracting reusable
material into linked files:
- templates/template.html (host page with full CSS design system)
- references/physical-shape-cookbook.md
- references/infrastructure-patterns.md
- references/dashboard-patterns.md
All 15 examples kept intact.
- Add dhandhalyabhavik@gmail.com -> v1k22 to AUTHOR_MAP.
Preserves v1k22's authorship on the underlying commit.
- SKILL.md with full SVG design system (color palette, typography, spacing, dark mode)
- 15 example diagrams covering flowcharts, physical structures, chemistry, charts, floor plans, and more
- Supports 8 diagram types: flowchart, structural, API map, microservice, data flow, physical, infrastructure, UI mockups
- Auto-hosts diagrams on 0.0.0.0:22223 as interactive web pages
* feat: add meme-generation skill
* Reduce meme skill prompt cost with tighter selection rules
* feat(skill): overhaul meme-generation into real image generator
Move from skills/creative/ to optional-skills/creative/ (niche skill,
not needed by default). Replace prompt-only meme concept brainstormer
with actual meme image generation:
- Python script using Pillow to overlay text on template images
- 10 curated templates with hand-tuned text positioning
- Dynamic access to ~100 popular imgflip templates via public API
- Custom image mode (--image): use AI-generated or any image as base
- Two text modes: overlay (white+outline on image) or bars (black bars)
- Vision verification workflow: use vision_analyze to QA the result
- Auto-scaling font with pixel-accurate word wrapping
- Template search via --search
- No API keys required
Original skill concept by adanaleycio (PR #1771), overhauled with
image generation and custom image support.
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Co-authored-by: adanaleycio <atillababa767@gmail.com>
Control a running Blender instance from Hermes via socket connection
to the blender-mcp addon (port 9876). Supports creating 3D objects,
materials, animations, and running arbitrary bpy code.
Placed in optional-skills/ since it requires Blender 4.3+ desktop
with a third-party addon manually started each session.
