hermes-agent/website/docs/reference/skills-catalog.md
Teknium 3910ab28c0 feat(skills): update simplify-code to track upstream /simplify evolution (4th altitude reviewer, inline fallback)
Claude Code's /simplify was renamed away, community-restored, and rebuilt
since our 3-agent port (v2.1.63 -> v2.1.154+). This brings simplify-code
in line with the current upstream design, re-expressed in our own wording
and layered onto our existing risk-tier/confidence machinery:

- New Reviewer 4 (Altitude): flags band-aid fixes layered on shared
  infrastructure — special cases, symptom patches with unfixed sibling
  sites, workaround stacks — and points at the deeper mechanism fix.
  Matches our AGENTS.md 'fix the class, not the site' rubric.
- Explicit cleanup-vs-bug-hunt boundary: this skill improves working
  code; correctness review stays with requesting-code-review.
- Inline single-pass fallback when delegate_task is unavailable (leaf
  subagents, delegation disabled) — previously the skill just broke;
  now all four angles run sequentially with honest disclosure.
- Finding format gains a concrete-cost field.
- Efficiency reviewer adds closure-capture scope-retention leaks.
- Pitfalls: fan-out cap 3 -> 4, band-aid-vs-deliberate-boundary caveat,
  no-bug-hunting drift guard.

Kept our value-adds upstream lacks: SAFE/CAREFUL/RISKY tiers,
Chesterton's Fence via git blame, dry-run/focus/scope modifiers.
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5 Bundled Skills Catalog Catalog of bundled skills that ship with Hermes Agent

Bundled Skills Catalog

Hermes ships with a large built-in skill library copied into ~/.hermes/skills/ on install. Each skill below links to a dedicated page with its full definition, setup, and usage.

Hermes also syncs bundled skills on hermes update, but the sync manifest respects local deletions and user edits. If a skill listed here is missing from your profile's ~/.hermes/skills/ tree, it is still shipped with Hermes; restore it with hermes skills reset <name> --restore.

If a skill is missing from this list but present in the repo, the catalog is regenerated by website/scripts/generate-skill-docs.py.

apple

Skill Description Path
apple-notes Manage Apple Notes via memo CLI: create, search, edit. apple/apple-notes
apple-reminders Apple Reminders via remindctl: add, list, complete. apple/apple-reminders
findmy Track Apple devices/AirTags via FindMy.app on macOS. apple/findmy
imessage Send and receive iMessages/SMS via the imsg CLI on macOS. apple/imessage

autonomous-ai-agents

Skill Description Path
claude-code Delegate coding to Claude Code CLI (features, PRs). autonomous-ai-agents/claude-code
codex Delegate coding to OpenAI Codex CLI (features, PRs). autonomous-ai-agents/codex
hermes-agent Use, configure, theme, extend, and orchestrate Hermes Agent. autonomous-ai-agents/hermes-agent
opencode Delegate coding to OpenCode CLI (features, PR review). autonomous-ai-agents/opencode

computer-use

Skill Description Path
computer-use Drive the user's desktop in the background — clicking, typing, scrolling, dragging — without stealing the cursor, keyboard focus, or switching virtual desktops / Spaces. Cross-platform: macOS, Windows, Linux. Works with any tool-capable... computer-use

creative

Skill Description Path
architecture-diagram Dark-themed SVG architecture/cloud/infra diagrams as HTML. creative/architecture-diagram
ascii-art ASCII art: pyfiglet, cowsay, boxes, image-to-ascii. creative/ascii-art
ascii-video ASCII video: convert video/audio to colored ASCII MP4/GIF. creative/ascii-video
baoyu-infographic Infographics: 21 layouts x 21 styles (信息图, 可视化). creative/baoyu-infographic
claude-design Design one-off HTML artifacts (landing, deck, prototype). creative/claude-design
comfyui Generate images, video, and audio with ComfyUI — install, launch, manage nodes/models, run workflows with parameter injection. Uses the official comfy-cli for lifecycle and direct REST/WebSocket API for execution. creative/comfyui
design-md Author/validate/export Google's DESIGN.md token spec files. creative/design-md
excalidraw Hand-drawn Excalidraw JSON diagrams (arch, flow, seq). creative/excalidraw
humanizer Humanize text: strip AI-isms and add real voice. creative/humanizer
manim-video Manim CE animations: 3Blue1Brown math/algo videos. creative/manim-video
p5js p5.js sketches: gen art, shaders, interactive, 3D. creative/p5js
popular-web-designs 54 real design systems (Stripe, Linear, Vercel) as HTML/CSS. creative/popular-web-designs
pretext Use when building creative browser demos with @chenglou/pretext — DOM-free text layout for ASCII art, typographic flow around obstacles, text-as-geometry games, kinetic typography, and text-powered generative art. Produces single-file HT... creative/pretext
sketch Throwaway HTML mockups: 2-3 design variants to compare. creative/sketch
songwriting-and-ai-music Songwriting craft and Suno AI music prompts. creative/songwriting-and-ai-music
touchdesigner-mcp Control a running TouchDesigner instance via twozero MCP — create operators, set parameters, wire connections, execute Python, build real-time visuals. 36 native tools. creative/touchdesigner-mcp

email

Skill Description Path
himalaya Himalaya CLI: IMAP/SMTP email from terminal. email/himalaya

github

Skill Description Path
codebase-inspection Inspect codebases w/ pygount: LOC, languages, ratios. github/codebase-inspection
github-auth GitHub auth setup: HTTPS tokens, SSH keys, gh CLI login. github/github-auth
github-code-review Review PRs: diffs, inline comments via gh or REST. github/github-code-review
github-issues Create, triage, label, assign GitHub issues via gh or REST. github/github-issues
github-pr-workflow GitHub PR lifecycle: branch, commit, open, CI, merge. github/github-pr-workflow
github-repo-management Clone/create/fork repos; manage remotes, releases. github/github-repo-management

media

Skill Description Path
gif-search Search/download GIFs from Tenor via curl + jq. media/gif-search
songsee Audio spectrograms/features (mel, chroma, MFCC) via CLI. media/songsee
youtube-content YouTube transcripts to summaries, threads, blogs. media/youtube-content

mlops

Skill Description Path
huggingface-hub HuggingFace hf CLI: search/download/upload models, datasets. mlops/huggingface-hub
llama-cpp llama.cpp local GGUF inference + HF Hub model discovery. mlops/inference/llama-cpp
evaluating-llms-harness lm-eval-harness: benchmark LLMs (MMLU, GSM8K, etc.). mlops/evaluation/lm-evaluation-harness
serving-llms-vllm vLLM: high-throughput LLM serving, OpenAI API, quantization. mlops/inference/vllm
weights-and-biases W&B: log ML experiments, sweeps, model registry, dashboards. mlops/evaluation/weights-and-biases

note-taking

Skill Description Path
obsidian Read, search, create, and edit notes in the Obsidian vault. note-taking/obsidian

productivity

Skill Description Path
airtable Airtable REST API via curl. Records CRUD, filters, upserts. productivity/airtable
docx Create, read, edit Word .docx documents and templates. productivity/docx
google-workspace Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets via gws CLI or Python. productivity/google-workspace
maps Geocode, POIs, routes, timezones via OpenStreetMap/OSRM. productivity/maps
nano-pdf Edit text in existing PDFs via natural-language prompts. productivity/nano-pdf
notion Notion API + ntn CLI: pages, databases, markdown, Workers. productivity/notion
ocr-and-documents Extract text from PDFs/scans (pymupdf, marker-pdf). productivity/ocr-and-documents
pdf Create, merge, split, fill, and secure PDF files. productivity/pdf
powerpoint Create, read, edit .pptx decks, slides, notes, templates. productivity/powerpoint
teams-meeting-pipeline Operate the Teams meeting summary pipeline via Hermes CLI — summarize meetings, inspect pipeline status, replay jobs, manage Microsoft Graph subscriptions. productivity/teams-meeting-pipeline
xlsx Create, read, edit Excel .xlsx spreadsheets and CSVs. productivity/xlsx

research

Skill Description Path
arxiv Search arXiv papers by keyword, author, category, or ID. research/arxiv
blogwatcher Monitor blogs and RSS/Atom feeds via blogwatcher-cli tool. research/blogwatcher
llm-wiki Karpathy's LLM Wiki: build/query interlinked markdown KB. research/llm-wiki
polymarket Query Polymarket: markets, prices, orderbooks, history. research/polymarket
research-paper-writing Write ML papers for NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR: design→submit. research/research-paper-writing

smart-home

Skill Description Path
openhue Control Philips Hue lights, scenes, rooms via OpenHue CLI. smart-home/openhue

social-media

Skill Description Path
xurl X/Twitter via xurl CLI: post, search, DM, media, v2 API. social-media/xurl

software-development

Skill Description Path
dogfood Exploratory QA of web apps: find bugs, evidence, reports. software-development/dogfood
hermes-agent-skill-authoring Author in-repo SKILL.md: frontmatter, validator, structure, and writing-quality principles. software-development/hermes-agent-skill-authoring
node-inspect-debugger Debug Node.js via --inspect + Chrome DevTools Protocol CLI. software-development/node-inspect-debugger
plan Plan mode: write an actionable markdown plan to .hermes/plans/, no execution. Bite-sized tasks, exact paths, complete code. software-development/plan
python-debugpy Debug Python: pdb REPL + debugpy remote (DAP). software-development/python-debugpy
requesting-code-review Pre-commit review: security scan, quality gates, auto-fix. software-development/requesting-code-review
simplify-code Parallel 4-agent cleanup of recent code changes. software-development/simplify-code
spike Throwaway experiments to validate an idea before build. software-development/spike
systematic-debugging 4-phase root cause debugging: understand bugs before fixing. software-development/systematic-debugging
test-driven-development TDD: enforce RED-GREEN-REFACTOR, tests before code. software-development/test-driven-development