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Optional Skills Catalog

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

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

For example:

bash
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:

bash
hermes skills uninstall <skill-name>

autonomous-ai-agents

SkillDescription
antigravity-cliOperate the Antigravity CLI (agy): plugins, auth, sandbox.
blackboxDelegate coding tasks to the Blackbox AI multi-model CLI.
grokDelegate coding to xAI Grok Build CLI (features, PRs).
honchoConfigure and troubleshoot Honcho memory for Hermes.
openhandsDelegate coding to OpenHands CLI (model-agnostic, LiteLLM).

blockchain

SkillDescription
evmRead-only EVM client: wallets, tokens, gas across 8 chains.
hyperliquidHyperliquid market data, account history, trade review.
solanaQuery Solana wallets, tokens, txs, and NFTs in USD.

communication

SkillDescription
one-three-one-rule1-3-1 decision briefs: problem, three options, one pick.

creative

SkillDescription
audiocraft-audio-generationAudioCraft: MusicGen text-to-music, AudioGen text-to-sound.
baoyu-article-illustratorArticle illustrations: type × style × palette consistency.
baoyu-comicKnowledge comics (知识漫画): educational, biography, tutorial.
concept-diagramsGenerate flat, minimal educational SVG visuals as HTML.
creative-ideationGenerate ideas via named methods from creative practice.
heartmulaHeartMuLa: Suno-like song generation from lyrics + tags.
hyperframesRender MP4/WebM videos from HTML compositions.
kanban-video-orchestratorPlan and run multi-agent video production pipelines.
meme-generationCreate meme PNGs from templates with Pillow text overlay.
pixel-artPixel art w/ era palettes (NES, Game Boy, PICO-8).
social-media-content-calendarPlan multi-platform social campaigns: briefs to posting.
tldraw-offlineDrive and script tldraw offline canvases with an agent.
unreal-mcpAutomate Unreal Engine editor scenes, actors, and renders.

data-science

SkillDescription
jupyter-notebookIterative Python via live Jupyter kernel (hamelnb).

devops

SkillDescription
actual-setupSet up Actual Computer (actual.inc) inference in Hermes.
docker-managementManage Docker containers, images, volumes, and Compose.
hermes-s6-container-supervisionModify or debug s6 services in the Hermes Docker image.
inference-sh-cliRun 150+ AI apps (image, video, LLM) via inference.sh CLI.
pinggy-tunnelZero-install localhost tunnels over SSH via Pinggy.
watchersPoll RSS, JSON APIs, and GitHub with watermark dedup.

dogfood

SkillDescription
adversarial-ux-testRoleplay a hostile user to find and triage UX pain points.

email

SkillDescription
agentmailGive the agent its own inbox: send and receive email.

finance

SkillDescription
3-statement-modelBuild integrated IS/BS/CF financial workbooks in Excel.
comps-analysisBuild comparable-company valuation workbooks in Excel.
dcf-modelBuild discounted cash flow valuation workbooks in Excel.
excel-authorBuild auditable financial workbooks headless via openpyxl.
lbo-modelBuild leveraged buyout workbooks with IRR/MOIC in Excel.
merger-modelBuild M&A accretion/dilution workbooks in Excel.
polymarketQuery Polymarket: markets, prices, orderbooks, history.
pptx-authorBuild PowerPoint decks headless with python-pptx.
stocksStock quotes, history, search, compare, crypto via Yahoo.

gaming

SkillDescription
minecraft-modpack-serverHost modded Minecraft servers (CurseForge, Modrinth).
pokemon-playerPlay Pokemon via headless emulator + RAM reads.

health

SkillDescription
fitness-nutritionWorkout planning, macros, and body metrics via wger/USDA.
neuroskill-bciUse live BCI cognitive and mood state from NeuroSkill.

mcp

SkillDescription
fastmcpBuild, test, and deploy Python MCP servers.
mcp-oauth-remote-gatewayManual OAuth for remote MCP servers on headless gateways.
mcporterList, auth, and call MCP servers/tools from the terminal.

migration

SkillDescription
openclaw-migrationImport an OpenClaw setup (memories, skills) into Hermes.

mlops

SkillDescription
accelerateRun PyTorch training across GPUs with minimal changes.
axolotlAxolotl: YAML LLM fine-tuning (LoRA, DPO, GRPO).
chromaEmbedding database for RAG and semantic search.
clipZero-shot image classification and image-text search.
dspyDSPy: declarative LM programs, auto-optimize prompts, RAG.
faissFast vector similarity search at billion scale.
flash-attentionSpeed up long-sequence transformer training and inference.
guidanceConstrain LLM output with grammars; guarantee valid JSON.
huggingface-tokenizersFast BPE/WordPiece tokenization and custom vocab training.
instructorStructured LLM outputs validated with Pydantic.
lambda-labsOn-demand GPU cloud instances for ML training.
llavaVision-language chat: VQA, captioning, image dialogue.
modalServerless GPU cloud for ML jobs and model APIs.
nemo-curatorCurate LLM training data: dedupe, filter, PII redaction.
obliteratusOBLITERATUS: abliterate LLM refusals (diff-in-means).
outlinesOutlines: structured JSON/regex/Pydantic LLM generation.
peftFine-tune large LLMs with LoRA on limited GPU memory.
pineconeManaged vector DB for production RAG and search.
pytorch-fsdpFully sharded data-parallel training for large models.
pytorch-lightningClean training loops with built-in distributed support.
qdrantVector search engine for production RAG systems.
saelensTrain sparse autoencoders to interpret model features.
segment-anything-modelSAM: zero-shot image segmentation via points, boxes, masks.
simpoReference-free preference alignment, simpler than DPO.
slimeRL post-training for LLMs with Megatron and SGLang.
stable-diffusionText-to-image generation, inpainting, and img2img.
tensorrt-llmHigh-throughput LLM inference on NVIDIA GPUs.
torchtitanPretrain LLMs at scale with PyTorch 4D parallelism.
trl-fine-tuningTRL: SFT, DPO, GRPO, RLOO reward modeling for LLM RLHF.
unslothUnsloth: 2-5x faster LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning, less VRAM.
whisperTranscribe and translate speech in 99 languages.

payments

SkillDescription
mpp-agentPay HTTP 402 APIs via Machine Payments Protocol (MPP).
stripe-link-cliAgent payments via Stripe Link — cards, SPT, approvals.
stripe-projectsProvision SaaS services + sync creds via Stripe Projects.

productivity

SkillDescription
canvasFetch Canvas LMS courses and assignments via API token.
here-nowPublish sites to {slug}.here.now and store files in Drives.
memento-flashcardsSpaced-repetition flashcards: create, review, quiz, export.
shopShop catalog search, checkout, order tracking, returns.
shopifyQuery Shopify Admin/Storefront GraphQL APIs via curl.
siyuanQuery and edit a SiYuan knowledge base via its API.
telephonyProvision Twilio numbers, SMS/MMS, and AI outbound calls.

research

SkillDescription
bioinformaticsGateway to 400+ genomics and computational biology skills.
darwinian-evolverEvolve prompts/regex/SQL/code with Imbue's evolution loop.
domain-intelPassive recon of subdomains, SSL certs, WHOIS, and DNS.
drug-discoveryDrug discovery: ChEMBL search, drug-likeness, interactions.
duckduckgo-searchFree keyless web, news, and image search via ddgs.
gitnexus-explorerServe an interactive codebase knowledge graph web UI.
osint-investigationFollow the money via public records and sanctions data.
parallel-cliAgent-native web search, deep research, and enrichment.
pinecone-researchAgent RAG and long-term memory with Pinecone.
qmdHybrid local search over notes, docs, and transcripts.
scraplingScrape sites with stealth browsing and Cloudflare bypass.
searxng-searchFree keyless meta-search aggregating 70+ engines.

security

SkillDescription
1passwordSet up op CLI, sign in, and read or inject secrets.
godmodeJailbreak LLMs: Parseltongue, GODMODE, ULTRAPLINIAN.
oss-forensicsGitHub supply-chain forensics: recovery, IOCs, reporting.
sherlockFind accounts for a username across 400+ platforms.
unbrokerAutonomously remove your info from data-broker sites.
web-pentestAuthorized web pentest: recon, proof-based exploits, report.

software-development

SkillDescription
code-wikiGenerate wiki docs + Mermaid diagrams for any codebase.
rest-graphql-debugDebug REST/GraphQL APIs: status codes, auth, schemas, repro.
subagent-driven-developmentExecute plans via delegate_task subagents (2-stage review).

web-development

SkillDescription
cloudflare-temporary-deployDeploy a Worker live, no account, via wrangler --temporary.
page-agentEmbed an in-page natural-language GUI copilot in web apps.

yuanbao

SkillDescription
yuanbaoYuanbao (元宝) groups: @mention users, query info/members.

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