#skills
6 tutorials
Turning on the Hermes Write-Approval Gate and Reading the Pending Queue
Learn what memory.write_approval and skills.write_approval gate, how staged writes land in ~/.hermes/pending/, and how to review them via /memory and /skills.
Hermes Agent Skill Development: Build, Test, and Distribute Your Own Skills
Learn how to write, test, and publish your own Hermes Agent skill, from SKILL.md structure and conditional activation through to tap-based sharing for others.
Hermes Agent as a Research Assistant: A Source-Cited Literature Review Workflow (Beginner Guide 2026)
A beginner's guide to Hermes Agent as a source-cited research assistant: web search, page extraction, memory, skills and a weekly cron digest.
How to Build Self-Improving Skills with Hermes Agent
Create, manage, and maintain procedural skills that make your Hermes Agent smarter over time — with real commands from the curator and skills system.
Hermes Curator: An Autonomous Skill-Maintenance Agent
The Hermes Curator runs in the background on a 7-day cycle, grading, consolidating, and pruning your skill library without any manual effort.
Skills: Teaching Your Agent to Learn
Hermes Agent's skills system lets your agent remember how to do things, get better over time, and build a personal playbook of expertise.