Can Hermes agent use these skills?

[qzd1989]

thank you...

[alirezarezvani]

Hi @qzd1989 — great question! Yes, Hermes Agent can use these skills.

Why it works out of the box

Both Hermes Agent and our repo use the agentskills.io standard:

• SKILL.md with YAML frontmatter (name, description, version, license)
• Same directory layout: <skill>/SKILL.md + references/ + templates/ + assets/
• Hermes reads AGENTS.md for project context — which we already generate

No format conversion is needed. The SKILL.md files are identical.

How to install

We just added a sync script for Hermes in PR #522. Once that merges, you can:

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills.git
cd claude-skills

# Sync all 198+ skills into Hermes
python scripts/sync-hermes-skills.py --verbose

# Or sync just one domain
python scripts/sync-hermes-skills.py --domain engineering

This creates symlinks from our skills into ~/.hermes/skills/claude-skills/ where Hermes discovers them automatically. Then in Hermes you can:

/skills                    # browse all installed skills (ours will show up)
/<skill-name>              # invoke any skill directly

Manual install (works today, no script needed):

# Symlink any skill directory into ~/.hermes/skills/
ln -s /path/to/claude-skills/engineering/karpathy-coder ~/.hermes/skills/karpathy-coder

# Or copy it
cp -r /path/to/claude-skills/engineering/llm-wiki ~/.hermes/skills/llm-wiki

What works

Feature	Status
SKILL.md loading	✅ works natively
Python scripts (stdlib-only)	✅ Hermes has Python runtime
References/templates/assets	✅ same directory convention
AGENTS.md project context	✅ Hermes reads AGENTS.md
Slash commands (/<name>)	✅ Hermes auto-discovers from SKILL.md
Sub-agents	⚠️ Hermes uses its own delegate_tool, not Claude Code's Agent tool
Claude Code plugin.json	❌ Hermes ignores this (not needed — it scans SKILL.md directly)
Hooks (settings.json)	❌ Different hook system — manual wiring needed

Compatibility matrix (after PR #522)

Claude Code   — /plugin install
Codex CLI     — scripts/sync-codex-skills.py
Gemini CLI    — scripts/sync-gemini-skills.py
OpenClaw      — scripts/openclaw-install.sh
Hermes Agent  — scripts/sync-hermes-skills.py  ← NEW
Cursor/Aider  — scripts/convert.sh

Hermes is now our 6th officially supported tool. Let me know if you run into any issues!

[qzd1989]

thank you very much!