hermes-agent/website/docs/reference/optional-skills-catalog.md

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9	Optional Skills Catalog	Official optional skills shipped with hermes-agent — install via hermes skills install official/<category>/<skill>

Optional Skills Catalog

Optional skills ship with hermes-agent under optional-skills/ but are not active by default. Install them explicitly:

hermes skills install official/<category>/<skill>

For example:

hermes skills install official/blockchain/solana
hermes skills install official/mlops/flash-attention

Each skill below links to a dedicated page with its full definition, setup, and usage.

To uninstall:

hermes skills uninstall <skill-name>

autonomous-ai-agents

Skill	Description
antigravity-cli	Operate the Antigravity CLI (agy): plugins, auth, sandbox.
blackbox	Delegate coding tasks to the Blackbox AI multi-model CLI.
grok	Delegate coding to xAI Grok Build CLI (features, PRs).
honcho	Configure and troubleshoot Honcho memory for Hermes.
openhands	Delegate coding to OpenHands CLI (model-agnostic, LiteLLM).

blockchain

Skill	Description
evm	Read-only EVM client: wallets, tokens, gas across 8 chains.
hyperliquid	Hyperliquid market data, account history, trade review.
solana	Query Solana wallets, tokens, txs, and NFTs in USD.

communication

Skill	Description
one-three-one-rule	Structured decision-making framework for technical proposals and trade-off analysis. When the user faces a choice between multiple approaches (architecture decisions, tool selection, refactoring strategies, migration paths), this skill p...

creative

Skill	Description
audiocraft-audio-generation	AudioCraft: MusicGen text-to-music, AudioGen text-to-sound.
baoyu-article-illustrator	Article illustrations: type × style × palette consistency.
baoyu-comic	Knowledge comics (知识漫画): educational, biography, tutorial.
blender-mcp	Drive Blender via the catalog blender MCP, with bpy recipes.
concept-diagrams	Generate flat, minimal educational SVG visuals as HTML.
creative-ideation	Generate ideas via named methods from creative practice.
heartmula	HeartMuLa: Suno-like song generation from lyrics + tags.
hyperframes	Render MP4/WebM videos from HTML compositions.
kanban-video-orchestrator	Plan and run multi-agent video production pipelines.
meme-generation	Create meme PNGs from templates with Pillow text overlay.
pixel-art	Pixel art w/ era palettes (NES, Game Boy, PICO-8).
tldraw-offline	Drive and script tldraw offline canvases with an agent.
unreal-mcp	Automate Unreal Engine editor scenes, actors, and renders.

data-science

Skill	Description
jupyter-notebook	Iterative Python via live Jupyter kernel (hamelnb).

devops

Skill	Description
inference-sh-cli	Run 150+ AI apps (image, video, LLM) via inference.sh CLI.
docker-management	Manage Docker containers, images, volumes, and Compose.
hermes-s6-container-supervision	Modify or debug s6 services in the Hermes Docker image.
pinggy-tunnel	Zero-install localhost tunnels over SSH via Pinggy.
watchers	Poll RSS, JSON APIs, and GitHub with watermark dedup.

dogfood

Skill	Description
adversarial-ux-test	Roleplay a hostile user to find and triage UX pain points.

email

Skill	Description
agentmail	Give the agent its own inbox: send and receive email.

finance

Skill	Description
3-statement-model	Build integrated IS/BS/CF financial workbooks in Excel.
comps-analysis	Build comparable-company valuation workbooks in Excel.
dcf-model	Build discounted cash flow valuation workbooks in Excel.
excel-author	Build auditable financial workbooks headless via openpyxl.
lbo-model	Build leveraged buyout workbooks with IRR/MOIC in Excel.
merger-model	Build M&A accretion/dilution workbooks in Excel.
pptx-author	Build PowerPoint decks headless with python-pptx.
stocks	Stock quotes, history, search, compare, crypto via Yahoo.

gaming

Skill	Description
minecraft-modpack-server	Host modded Minecraft servers (CurseForge, Modrinth).
pokemon-player	Play Pokemon via headless emulator + RAM reads.

health

Skill	Description
fitness-nutrition	Gym workout planner and nutrition tracker. Search 690+ exercises by muscle, equipment, or category via wger. Look up macros and calories for 380,000+ foods via USDA FoodData Central. Compute BMI, TDEE, one-rep max, macro splits, and body...
neuroskill-bci	Connect to a running NeuroSkill instance and incorporate the user's real-time cognitive and emotional state (focus, relaxation, mood, cognitive load, drowsiness, heart rate, HRV, sleep staging, and 40+ derived EXG scores) into responses....

mcp

Skill	Description
fastmcp	Build, test, and deploy Python MCP servers.
mcp-oauth-remote-gateway	Manual OAuth for remote MCP servers on headless gateways.
mcporter	List, auth, and call MCP servers/tools from the terminal.

migration

Skill	Description
openclaw-migration	Import an OpenClaw setup (memories, skills) into Hermes.

mlops

Skill	Description
huggingface-accelerate	Run PyTorch training across GPUs with minimal changes.
axolotl	Axolotl: YAML LLM fine-tuning (LoRA, DPO, GRPO).
chroma	Embedding database for RAG and semantic search.
clip	Zero-shot image classification and image-text search.
dspy	DSPy: declarative LM programs, auto-optimize prompts, RAG.
faiss	Fast vector similarity search at billion scale.
optimizing-attention-flash	Speed up long-sequence transformer training and inference.
guidance	Constrain LLM output with grammars; guarantee valid JSON.
huggingface-tokenizers	Fast BPE/WordPiece tokenization and custom vocab training.
instructor	Structured LLM outputs validated with Pydantic.
lambda-labs-gpu-cloud	On-demand GPU cloud instances for ML training.
llava	Vision-language chat: VQA, captioning, image dialogue.
modal-serverless-gpu	Serverless GPU cloud for ML jobs and model APIs.
nemo-curator	Curate LLM training data: dedupe, filter, PII redaction.
obliteratus	OBLITERATUS: abliterate LLM refusals (diff-in-means).
outlines	Outlines: structured JSON/regex/Pydantic LLM generation.
peft-fine-tuning	Fine-tune large LLMs with LoRA on limited GPU memory.
pinecone	Managed vector database for production AI applications. Fully managed, auto-scaling, with hybrid search (dense + sparse), metadata filtering, and namespaces. Low latency (<100ms p95). Use for production RAG, recommendation systems, or se...
pytorch-fsdp	Fully sharded data-parallel training for large models.
pytorch-lightning	Clean training loops with built-in distributed support.
qdrant-vector-search	Vector search engine for production RAG systems.
sparse-autoencoder-training	Train sparse autoencoders to interpret model features.
segment-anything-model	SAM: zero-shot image segmentation via points, boxes, masks.
simpo-training	Reference-free preference alignment, simpler than DPO.
slime-rl-training	RL post-training for LLMs with Megatron and SGLang.
stable-diffusion-image-generation	Text-to-image generation, inpainting, and img2img.
tensorrt-llm	High-throughput LLM inference on NVIDIA GPUs.
distributed-llm-pretraining-torchtitan	Pretrain LLMs at scale with PyTorch 4D parallelism.
fine-tuning-with-trl	TRL: SFT, DPO, PPO, GRPO, reward modeling for LLM RLHF.
unsloth	Unsloth: 2-5x faster LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning, less VRAM.
whisper	Transcribe and translate speech in 99 languages.

payments

Skill	Description
mpp-agent	Pay HTTP 402 APIs via Machine Payments Protocol (MPP).
stripe-link-cli	Agent payments via Stripe Link — cards, SPT, approvals.
stripe-projects	Provision SaaS services + sync creds via Stripe Projects.

productivity

Skill	Description
canvas	Fetch Canvas LMS courses and assignments via API token.
here.now	Publish sites to {slug}.here.now and store files in Drives.
memento-flashcards	Spaced-repetition flashcard system. Create cards from facts or text, chat with flashcards using free-text answers graded by the agent, generate quizzes from YouTube transcripts, review due cards with adaptive scheduling, and export/impor...
shop	Shop catalog search, checkout, order tracking, returns.
shopify	Query Shopify Admin/Storefront GraphQL APIs via curl.
siyuan	Query and edit a SiYuan knowledge base via its API.
telephony	Provision Twilio numbers, SMS/MMS, and AI outbound calls.

research

Skill	Description
bioinformatics	Gateway to 400+ genomics and computational biology skills.
darwinian-evolver	Evolve prompts/regex/SQL/code with Imbue's evolution loop.
domain-intel	Passive recon of subdomains, SSL certs, WHOIS, and DNS.
drug-discovery	Pharmaceutical research assistant for drug discovery workflows. Search bioactive compounds on ChEMBL, calculate drug-likeness (Lipinski Ro5, QED, TPSA, synthetic accessibility), look up drug-drug interactions via OpenFDA, interpret ADMET...
duckduckgo-search	Free keyless web, news, and image search via ddgs.
gitnexus-explorer	Serve an interactive codebase knowledge graph web UI.
osint-investigation	Follow the money via public records and sanctions data.
parallel-cli	Agent-native web search, deep research, and enrichment.
qmd	Hybrid local search over notes, docs, and transcripts.
scrapling	Scrape sites with stealth browsing and Cloudflare bypass.
searxng-search	Free keyless meta-search aggregating 70+ engines.

security

Skill	Description
1password	Set up op CLI, sign in, and read or inject secrets.
godmode	Jailbreak LLMs: Parseltongue, GODMODE, ULTRAPLINIAN.
oss-forensics	Supply chain investigation, evidence recovery, and forensic analysis for GitHub repositories. Covers deleted commit recovery, force-push detection, IOC extraction, multi-source evidence collection, hypothesis formation/validation, and st...
sherlock	Find accounts for a username across 400+ platforms.
unbroker	Autonomously remove your info from data-broker sites.
web-pentest	Authorized web application penetration testing — reconnaissance, vulnerability analysis, proof-based exploitation, and professional reporting. Adapts Shannon's "No Exploit, No Report" methodology with hard guardrails for scope, authoriza...

software-development

Skill	Description
code-wiki	Generate wiki docs + Mermaid diagrams for any codebase.
rest-graphql-debug	Debug REST/GraphQL APIs: status codes, auth, schemas, repro.
subagent-driven-development	Execute plans via delegate_task subagents (2-stage review).

web-development

Skill	Description
cloudflare-temporary-deploy	Deploy a Worker live, no account, via wrangler --temporary.
page-agent	Embed an in-page natural-language GUI copilot in web apps.

yuanbao

Skill	Description
yuanbao	Yuanbao (元宝) groups: @mention users, query info/members.

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Contributing Optional Skills

To add a new optional skill to the repository:

1. Create a directory under optional-skills/<category>/<skill-name>/
2. Add a SKILL.md with standard frontmatter (name, description, version, author)
3. Include any supporting files in references/, templates/, or scripts/ subdirectories
4. Submit a pull request — the skill will appear in this catalog and get its own docs page once merged