Hermes Agent Skills That Make It 10x More Powerful

These Hermes Agent Skills make the Hermes AI agent so much better. We cover the Hermes agent setup for each one, how to install Hermes agent skills, and what problem each one fixes. Most of them work with any AI coding agent, not just Hermes AI. Put your infrastructure on autopilot with Plural at: https://plural.sh?utm_campaign=51931706-Lead%20generation%20-%20ailabs&utm_source=ppc&utm_medium=sponsorship&utm_content=video-description Community with All Resources: https://ailabspro.io/?v=WJgxX0Eib6k The Roundup, our daily newsletter covering the AI stories that matter. Join now: https://www.theroundup.so/ Every skill in this video: 1. Planning with Files: https://github.com/OthmanAdi/planning-with-files 2. Delegate Skills: https://github.com/amElnagdy/delegate-skills 3. RTK: https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk 4. Mantis: https://github.com/google/mantis 5. Agent Reach: https://github.com/Panniantong/Agent-Reach 6. Skill Retrieval: https://github.com/moonlight-lupin/agent-skills/tree/main/plugins/skill-retrieval People have been building skills for Hermes Agent since launch, and some became the most trending projects on GitHub. In this video we go through the best Hermes Agent Skills we actually use, and show how to add skills to Hermes Agent one by one. Hermes ships with more than 90 skills and writes new ones from workflows it sees in your chat, but those only come from what it learns from you. The most useful Hermes Agent Skills are built by people who already solved problems Hermes can't handle on its own. 1. Planning with Files. Long conversations make your agent forget details you mentioned earlier, and it happens faster on Opus models. This moves the plan into three files in your project: task_plan.md, findings.md and progress.md. What makes it different from keeping notes yourself is the hook it installs, which forces those files into the context window so the agent can't ignore the plan. Most agents don't support hooks. Hermes does. 2. Delegate Setup. Turns Hermes into an orchestrator for every coding tool installed on your machine. It works out which tool suits which task, hands the work over, and gives you one collective report. The install lets you pick from eighteen skills. These are the best Hermes Agent code skills, because the coding goes to Claude Code, Codex or Cursor instead of staying in one place. 3. RTK. Every terminal command returns output your agent has to read, and 90% of it is noise that bloats the context. RTK filters it before it reaches the context window, using a database of the commands agents run most. It isn't a skill, it's a tool you run from the terminal, so we wrote a skill that routes the agent's commands through it. That skill is in AI Labs Pro. 4. Mantis. Google's set of security review skills, split by area, for mobile or web apps. It belongs in Hermes because of cron jobs. Hermes runs all the time, so you can schedule the full review against your hosted app and get alerted on Slack when it finds something. We run the same setup on our own project. 5. Agent Reach. Agents get denied access to a lot of sites worth researching, like Reddit. This gives Hermes access to 15+ platforms including Reddit, GitHub, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, using free methods, so it costs nothing. It was the number one trending project on GitHub recently. 6. Skill Retriever. Only a skill's name and description go into the context window, but they're sent with every message. Past 100 skills that's a huge chunk of context gone before you've said anything. This matches your message against your skill list and sends only the closest ones. Their docs say 11K tokens before and 2.3K after, so 9K+ saved every turn. It's a plugin, and you enable Skill Retriever from the plugins area. If you're looking for how to install Hermes agent skills, every one has an install command in its repo. Hermes agent, how to install skills: run the command, pick the pieces you want, and the skill shows up ready to run with a slash command. The Hermes agent download skills step is one command each, and every repo is linked above if you want to add skills to Hermes Agent yourself. One note on how to add skills in Hermes Agent: more is not better. The best skills for Hermes Agent fix a real problem you keep hitting, which is why half this list protects the context window instead of adding features. Most of these aren't Hermes only. If your AI automation stack runs on Claude Code, ChatGPT or Claude AI, the same ideas apply, because they work with any AI coding agent. 00:00 Intro 00:52 Planning with Files 03:10 Delegate 04:47 RTK 06:23 Plural 07:12 Mantis 08:44 Agent Reach 09:41 Skill Retriever Hashtags: #ai #claudecode #hermesagent #chatgpt #aiautomation #claudeai #hermes #HermesAgentSkills