hermes-agent/skills/media/gif-search/SKILL.md
Teknium 98db898c0b feat(skills): declare platforms frontmatter for all 79 undeclared built-in skills
Completes the Windows-gating coverage for the built-in skills/ tree. Every
bundled SKILL.md now carries an explicit platforms: declaration so the
loader (agent.skill_utils.skill_matches_platform) can skip-load skills
that don't fit the current OS.

74 skills declared cross-platform (platforms: [linux, macos, windows]):
  Creative (16): ascii-art, ascii-video, architecture-diagram, baoyu-comic,
    baoyu-infographic, claude-design, creative-ideation, design-md,
    excalidraw, humanizer, manim-video, p5js, pixel-art,
    popular-web-designs, pretext, sketch, songwriting-and-ai-music,
    touchdesigner-mcp
  Autonomous agents: claude-code, codex, hermes-agent, opencode
  Data/devops: jupyter-live-kernel, kanban-orchestrator, kanban-worker,
    webhook-subscriptions, dogfood, codebase-inspection
  GitHub: github-auth, github-code-review, github-issues,
    github-pr-workflow, github-repo-management
  Media: gif-search, heartmula, songsee, spotify, youtube-content
  MCP / email / gaming / notes / smart-home: native-mcp, himalaya,
    pokemon-player, obsidian, openhue
  mlops (non-broken): weights-and-biases, huggingface-hub, llama-cpp,
    outlines, segment-anything-model, dspy, trl-fine-tuning
  Productivity: airtable, google-workspace, linear, maps, nano-pdf,
    notion, ocr-and-documents, powerpoint
  Red-teaming / research: godmode, arxiv, blogwatcher, llm-wiki,
    polymarket
  Software-dev: debugging-hermes-tui-commands, hermes-agent-skill-authoring,
    node-inspect-debugger, plan, requesting-code-review, spike,
    subagent-driven-development, systematic-debugging,
    test-driven-development, writing-plans
  Misc: yuanbao

5 skills gated from Windows (platforms: [linux, macos]):
  mlops/inference/vllm (serving-llms-vllm)
    vLLM is officially Linux-only; Windows requires WSL.
  mlops/training/axolotl
    Axolotl's flash-attn + deepspeed + bitsandbytes stack is Linux-first.
  mlops/training/unsloth
    Requires Triton + xformers + flash-attn — Linux only in practice.
  mlops/models/audiocraft (audiocraft-audio-generation)
    torchaudio ffmpeg backend + encodec dependencies are Linux-first.
  mlops/inference/obliteratus
    Research abliteration workflow; relies on Linux-focused pytorch
    kernels and MLX — no first-class Windows path.

Same strict-over-lenient policy as the optional-skills sweep: when the
underlying tool's Windows support is rough, missing, or WSL-only, gate the
skill. Easier to un-gate after verified Windows support lands than to leak
partial support that manifests as mid-task failures.

Combined with prior commits in this branch, every bundled SKILL.md
(skills/ + optional-skills/) now has a platforms: declaration.
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name description version author license platforms prerequisites metadata
gif-search Search/download GIFs from Tenor via curl + jq. 1.1.0 Hermes Agent MIT
linux
macos
windows
env_vars commands
TENOR_API_KEY
curl
jq
hermes
tags
GIF
Media
Search
Tenor
API

GIF Search (Tenor API)

Search and download GIFs directly via the Tenor API using curl. No extra tools needed.

When to use

Useful for finding reaction GIFs, creating visual content, and sending GIFs in chat.

Setup

Set your Tenor API key in your environment (add to ~/.hermes/.env):

TENOR_API_KEY=your_key_here

Get a free API key at https://developers.google.com/tenor/guides/quickstart — the Google Cloud Console Tenor API key is free and has generous rate limits.

Prerequisites

  • curl and jq (both standard on macOS/Linux)
  • TENOR_API_KEY environment variable

Search for GIFs

# Search and get GIF URLs
curl -s "https://tenor.googleapis.com/v2/search?q=thumbs+up&limit=5&key=${TENOR_API_KEY}" | jq -r '.results[].media_formats.gif.url'

# Get smaller/preview versions
curl -s "https://tenor.googleapis.com/v2/search?q=nice+work&limit=3&key=${TENOR_API_KEY}" | jq -r '.results[].media_formats.tinygif.url'

Download a GIF

# Search and download the top result
URL=$(curl -s "https://tenor.googleapis.com/v2/search?q=celebration&limit=1&key=${TENOR_API_KEY}" | jq -r '.results[0].media_formats.gif.url')
curl -sL "$URL" -o celebration.gif

Get Full Metadata

curl -s "https://tenor.googleapis.com/v2/search?q=cat&limit=3&key=${TENOR_API_KEY}" | jq '.results[] | {title: .title, url: .media_formats.gif.url, preview: .media_formats.tinygif.url, dimensions: .media_formats.gif.dims}'

API Parameters

Parameter Description
q Search query (URL-encode spaces as +)
limit Max results (1-50, default 20)
key API key (from $TENOR_API_KEY env var)
media_filter Filter formats: gif, tinygif, mp4, tinymp4, webm
contentfilter Safety: off, low, medium, high
locale Language: en_US, es, fr, etc.

Available Media Formats

Each result has multiple formats under .media_formats:

Format Use case
gif Full quality GIF
tinygif Small preview GIF
mp4 Video version (smaller file size)
tinymp4 Small preview video
webm WebM video
nanogif Tiny thumbnail

Notes

  • URL-encode the query: spaces as +, special chars as %XX
  • For sending in chat, tinygif URLs are lighter weight
  • GIF URLs can be used directly in markdown: ![alt](url)