💬 How to Talk to Hermes
- Speak naturally — no special commands needed
- Hermes searches its skill library automatically
- Give goals, not instructions: "Deploy my site" not "Run git push"
- Provide context upfront to save iterations
"Schedule a weekly blog post ideas digest every Monday at 9am and post it to Slack"
"QA test flyfishingxl.com on mobile and fix any layout bugs"
⚡ Trigger Skill Superpowers
- Hermes auto-loads relevant skills per task
- Skills contain expert knowledge + API quirks
- You can ask to use a specific skill by name
- Skills stack — agent + browser + review combined
"Use the gstack-qa skill to test my site"
"Run a CEO-mode plan review on this feature spec"
📅 Scheduling (Cron Jobs)
- Create recurring jobs with natural language
- Results delivered to Slack, Telegram, email, etc.
- Chain jobs (output of A feeds into B)
- Jobs are persistent — survive restarts
"Every morning at 7am, check ArXiv for new LLM papers and summarize the top 3 for me in Slack"
🔌 Adding New Skills
- After a complex task succeeds, say "Save this as a skill"
- Skills live in
~/.hermes/skills/
- Format: YAML frontmatter + Markdown body
- Include: trigger conditions, steps, pitfalls, verification
- Hermes auto-patches skills when it finds gaps
"Save how you just deployed my site as a skill for next time"
🤖 Sub-Agents & Delegation
- Hermes can spawn parallel sub-agents for complex tasks
- Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode — full coding agents
- GStack team: 46 specialized virtual engineer roles
- Sub-agents work independently, results come back to you
"Have Claude Code refactor my entire API layer while you plan the next feature"
🔮 What's Possible
- Full-stack web development end-to-end
- Fine-tune & deploy local LLMs
- Automate any repetitive workflow
- Research + synthesize + publish
- Monitor & alert on external changes
- Control smart home, music, media
- Build and evolve its own skill library
🗂 Skill Building Standard Power User
Every skill follows a standard format for maximum effectiveness: a budget block (token limits), a state block (phase tracking), a phase dispatch table (what to do when), and sub-agent briefs under 600 tokens. The full standard is in the skill-building-standard skill. When a skill you use is missing steps or has wrong commands, Hermes patches it automatically.