How-To Series · Episode 35 / 59 · Module 6: Working While You Sleep

Hermes · Skills

Type a workflow once. Replay it forever with one slash.

After this videoYou can now turn any repeatable workflow into a single command.

A skill is an on-demand instruction document, and every skill is automatically a slash command (/plan, /github-pr-workflow) in the CLI and every platform. They live in ~/.hermes/skills/. Write your own as a SKILL.md (name + description frontmatter, plus When to Use / Procedure) and it works instantly, no restart. The agent writes its own via skill_manage as procedural memory. Progressive disclosure keeps cost near zero: a short list by default, full content only when needed. Install from the hub (hermes skills install, security-scanned) or group several into a bundle under one slash command.

About these resources. Every command in this video comes from the Skills System doc.

Sources · What this video distills

1 docs page · every command below traces to one of them
Primary · skills-as-slash-commands, SKILL.md format, skill_manage, progressive disclosure, the hub, bundles
Skills System
Read ↗

Commands shown · Copy and paste

each shows the source doc it came from
Invoke a skillfrom source ↗
/plan design a rollout for migrating our auth provider
Install from the hubfrom source ↗
hermes skills install openai/skills/k8s
Bundle skillsfrom source ↗
hermes bundles create backend-dev --skill github-code-review --skill github-pr-workflow

Going deeper · Related Hermes docs

further reading · not sources of facts shown above
Creating Skills
the full authoring guide
Scheduling
attach a skill to a cron job

Next in the series · Episodes that build on this

E36
Schedule With Cron
E37
Set a Goal
E41
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