website/docs/reference/optional-skills-catalog.md
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>
| 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). |
| 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. |
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| one-three-one-rule | 1-3-1 decision briefs: problem, three options, one pick. |
| 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. |
| 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). |
| social-media-content-calendar | Plan multi-platform social campaigns: briefs to posting. |
| tldraw-offline | Drive and script tldraw offline canvases with an agent. |
| unreal-mcp | Automate Unreal Engine editor scenes, actors, and renders. |
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| jupyter-notebook | Iterative Python via live Jupyter kernel (hamelnb). |
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| actual-setup | Set up Actual Computer (actual.inc) inference in Hermes. |
| docker-management | Manage Docker containers, images, volumes, and Compose. |
| hermes-s6-container-supervision | Modify or debug s6 services in the Hermes Docker image. |
| inference-sh-cli | Run 150+ AI apps (image, video, LLM) via inference.sh CLI. |
| pinggy-tunnel | Zero-install localhost tunnels over SSH via Pinggy. |
| watchers | Poll RSS, JSON APIs, and GitHub with watermark dedup. |
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| adversarial-ux-test | Roleplay a hostile user to find and triage UX pain points. |
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| agentmail | Give the agent its own inbox: send and receive email. |
| 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. |
| polymarket | Query Polymarket: markets, prices, orderbooks, history. |
| pptx-author | Build PowerPoint decks headless with python-pptx. |
| stocks | Stock quotes, history, search, compare, crypto via Yahoo. |
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| minecraft-modpack-server | Host modded Minecraft servers (CurseForge, Modrinth). |
| pokemon-player | Play Pokemon via headless emulator + RAM reads. |
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| fitness-nutrition | Workout planning, macros, and body metrics via wger/USDA. |
| neuroskill-bci | Use live BCI cognitive and mood state from NeuroSkill. |
| 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. |
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| openclaw-migration | Import an OpenClaw setup (memories, skills) into Hermes. |
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| flash-attention | 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 | On-demand GPU cloud instances for ML training. |
| llava | Vision-language chat: VQA, captioning, image dialogue. |
| modal | 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-tune large LLMs with LoRA on limited GPU memory. |
| pinecone | Managed vector DB for production RAG and search. |
| pytorch-fsdp | Fully sharded data-parallel training for large models. |
| pytorch-lightning | Clean training loops with built-in distributed support. |
| qdrant | Vector search engine for production RAG systems. |
| saelens | Train sparse autoencoders to interpret model features. |
| segment-anything-model | SAM: zero-shot image segmentation via points, boxes, masks. |
| simpo | Reference-free preference alignment, simpler than DPO. |
| slime | RL post-training for LLMs with Megatron and SGLang. |
| stable-diffusion | Text-to-image generation, inpainting, and img2img. |
| tensorrt-llm | High-throughput LLM inference on NVIDIA GPUs. |
| torchtitan | Pretrain LLMs at scale with PyTorch 4D parallelism. |
| trl-fine-tuning | TRL: SFT, DPO, GRPO, RLOO reward modeling for LLM RLHF. |
| unsloth | Unsloth: 2-5x faster LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning, less VRAM. |
| whisper | Transcribe and translate speech in 99 languages. |
| 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. |
| 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 flashcards: create, review, quiz, export. |
| 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. |
| 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 | Drug discovery: ChEMBL search, drug-likeness, interactions. |
| 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. |
| pinecone-research | Agent RAG and long-term memory with Pinecone. |
| 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. |
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| 1password | Set up op CLI, sign in, and read or inject secrets. |
| godmode | Jailbreak LLMs: Parseltongue, GODMODE, ULTRAPLINIAN. |
| oss-forensics | GitHub supply-chain forensics: recovery, IOCs, reporting. |
| sherlock | Find accounts for a username across 400+ platforms. |
| unbroker | Autonomously remove your info from data-broker sites. |
| web-pentest | Authorized web pentest: recon, proof-based exploits, report. |
| 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). |
| 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. |
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| yuanbao | Yuanbao (元宝) groups: @mention users, query info/members. |
To add a new optional skill to the repository:
optional-skills/<category>/<skill-name>/SKILL.md with standard frontmatter (name, description, version, author)references/, templates/, or scripts/ subdirectories