Best Hermes Agent Skills in 2026: Research, Content, DevOps, and More
A curated list of the best Hermes Agent skills across research, content creation, DevOps, and productivity.
Hermes Agent hit 95,000 GitHub stars in under two months. The skill ecosystem grew even faster — the bundled catalog alone ships with 70+ skills, and community-built options now number in the hundreds.
The problem is not finding skills. It is knowing which ones are worth your time.
This guide covers the best Hermes Agent skills across five categories: research, content creation, knowledge management, DevOps, and productivity. We tested each one in real workflows and ranked them by how much they actually improve your day-to-day work.
How Hermes Agent skills work
A quick primer before the list.
A skill is a SKILL.md file — a structured document that tells the agent what a capability does, what parameters it accepts, and how to use it. Hermes Agent scans its skill directory at startup and loads every valid SKILL.md it finds.
Skills are not compiled plugins. They are instruction sets the agent interprets at runtime. Installing one is just dropping a file into a directory. The agent's self-improvement loop can also create new skills from experience — so the more you use it, the more capable it becomes.
Most skills install via a one-line shell command or by cloning a repo into the skill directory.
Research and information gathering
Felo Search — Live web research with citations
Felo Search gives Hermes Agent real-time web search with source attribution and recency verification. Unlike a raw web search, it synthesizes results into direct answers and flags when information might be outdated.
Where it shines: Market research, fact-checking, competitive intelligence, trend monitoring.
Example prompt:
Search for the latest funding rounds in AI agent startups this month. Cite your sources.
Pricing: Free.
Felo Web Fetch — Clean webpage extraction
Felo Web Fetch extracts webpage content as Markdown, HTML, or plain text. It strips navigation, ads, and boilerplate — you get just the content.
Where it shines: Pulling product details from competitor websites, extracting documentation, archiving web content before it changes.
Example prompt:
Fetch https://example.com/pricing and extract all plan names, prices, and feature lists into a comparison table.
Pricing: Free.
Felo X Search — Social media signal tracking
Felo X Search monitors tweets and threads for social listening and market signal tracking. It exposes 5 endpoints for different types of social search.
Where it shines: Brand monitoring, product launch sentiment, tracking competitor mentions and community reactions.
Pricing: Free.
arXiv — Academic paper search
The bundled arXiv skill lets Hermes Agent search and retrieve academic papers directly. Useful if your research involves ML/AI papers, scientific literature, or technical references.
Where it shines: Literature reviews, staying current on research, pulling citations for technical writing.
Pricing: Free (bundled).
Blogwatcher — RSS and blog monitoring
The bundled Blogwatcher skill monitors blogs and RSS/Atom feeds for updates. Set it up once and Hermes Agent will track new posts from sources you care about.
Where it shines: Monitoring competitor blogs, tracking industry publications, content curation.
Pricing: Free (bundled).
Tip: Felo Search, Web Fetch, and X Search install together with one command — run
bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Felo-Inc/felo-skills/main/scripts/install-hermes.sh)to get all 9 Felo skills at once.
Content creation and delivery
Felo Slides — Generate presentations from prompts
Felo Slides generates polished PowerPoint decks directly from natural language prompts. Because it runs inside Hermes Agent, it can pull from research done earlier in the same conversation thread — so slides are informed by actual data, not generic templates.
Where it shines: Weekly status reports, product briefings, training materials, quick pitch decks.
Example prompt:
Based on the competitor research we just did, create a 10-slide deck comparing our product positioning against the top 3 competitors.
Pricing: Free. Runs as an async task.
Felo Content to Slides — Convert existing content into decks
Felo Content to Slides takes content you already have — notes, documents, URLs — and converts them into structured presentation outlines. Different from Felo Slides: this one works with existing material rather than generating from scratch.
Where it shines: Turning meeting notes into recap presentations, repurposing blog posts into slide format, knowledge-sharing decks.
Pricing: Free.
Felo YouTube Subtitling — Video transcript extraction
Felo YouTube Subtitling pulls transcripts and timestamps from YouTube videos, then generates summaries. Pair it with Felo LiveDoc and you can build a knowledge base from an entire YouTube channel.
Where it shines: Extracting key points from conference talks, building study notes from video courses, content repurposing.
Pricing: Free.
PowerPoint — Read and edit existing decks
The bundled PowerPoint skill lets Hermes Agent create, read, and extract content from .pptx files. Where Felo Slides generates new decks from prompts, this skill works with existing PowerPoint files — useful when you need to modify a deck someone else created.
Where it shines: Editing existing presentations, extracting content from shared decks, batch-updating slide text.
Pricing: Free (bundled).
Manim Video — Mathematical animations
The bundled Manim skill creates 3Blue1Brown-style mathematical and technical animations. Niche, but if you produce educational or technical content, it is a standout.
Where it shines: Educational videos, technical explainers, data visualization animations.
Pricing: Free (bundled).
Knowledge management and automation
Felo LiveDoc — Searchable knowledge base builder
Felo LiveDoc converts documents, PDFs, and URLs into a searchable knowledge base. Hermes Agent already has persistent memory, but LiveDoc adds structured, searchable document storage on top of it — the difference between "the agent remembers things" and "the agent can search through organized reference material."
Where it shines: Research archives, project documentation, personal knowledge management, reference libraries.
Pricing: Free.
Felo SuperAgent — Continuous workflow engine
Felo SuperAgent runs persistent workflows with streaming output and cross-session memory. This is the skill that ties everything else together — it handles ongoing processes that run continuously, check in periodically, and maintain state across sessions.
Where it shines: Daily competitive monitoring, weekly report generation, long-running data collection, automated content pipelines.
Pricing: Free.
Website Screenshot Agent — Automated visual monitoring
Website Screenshot Agent automates website snapshots and generates structured Markdown reports. Instead of manually checking competitor websites or staging environments, set up the agent to capture screenshots on a schedule and flag changes.
Where it shines: Competitor UI tracking, visual regression testing, pricing page monitoring, design QA.
Obsidian — Note vault integration
The bundled Obsidian skill lets Hermes Agent read, search, and create notes in your Obsidian vault. If you already use Obsidian for personal knowledge management, this skill connects your agent directly to your notes.
Where it shines: Querying your existing notes, creating new notes from research, linking agent output to your knowledge graph.
Pricing: Free (bundled).
LLM Wiki — Persistent knowledge bases
The bundled LLM Wiki skill builds persistent, interlinked markdown knowledge bases. A lighter alternative to LiveDoc if you prefer markdown-native storage.
Where it shines: Building wikis from research, maintaining interlinked documentation, long-term knowledge accumulation.
Pricing: Free (bundled).
DevOps and development
GitHub skills — Full PR and issue lifecycle
The bundled GitHub skill suite covers the complete development workflow:
- GitHub PR Workflow — Full PR lifecycle from branches through merge
- GitHub Code Review — Review code changes and leave inline PR comments
- GitHub Issues — Create, manage, triage, and close issues
- GitHub Repo Management — Clone, create, fork, and configure repositories
Where they shine: Issue triage, PR automation, code review assistance, release management.
Pricing: Free (bundled).
Claude Code — Delegate coding tasks
The bundled Claude Code skill lets Hermes Agent delegate coding tasks to Claude Code for features, refactoring, and PR reviews. Useful when you want Hermes Agent to orchestrate work but let a specialized coding agent handle the implementation.
Where it shines: Feature implementation, code refactoring, automated PR reviews.
Pricing: Free (bundled, requires Claude Code access).
Composio MCP — 200+ SaaS integrations
Composio connects Hermes Agent to 200+ SaaS tools via MCP — Slack, Jira, Salesforce, HubSpot, and more. If you need your agent to interact with enterprise tools, Composio is the fastest path.
Where it shines: Cross-tool automation, enterprise workflow integration, connecting agent output to business systems.
Pricing: Free tier available.
Hermes Incident Commander — SRE automation
A community-built skill for autonomous production incident detection and self-healing. It monitors your infrastructure, detects anomalies, and can execute predefined remediation steps.
Where it shines: On-call automation, incident response, infrastructure monitoring.
Pricing: Free (community).
Productivity and communication
Google Workspace — Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Sheets
The bundled Google Workspace skill integrates Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Contacts, Sheets, and Docs. When your agent can see your calendar and email, it makes better decisions about scheduling, prioritization, and context.
Where it shines: Email management, meeting prep, document creation, spreadsheet analysis.
Pricing: Free (bundled).
Linear — Project management
The bundled Linear skill manages Linear issues, projects, and teams via GraphQL API. If your team uses Linear for project tracking, this skill lets Hermes Agent create, update, and triage issues directly.
Where it shines: Issue creation from conversations, sprint management, project status updates.
Pricing: Free (bundled).
Notion — Page and database management
The bundled Notion skill creates and manages Notion pages, databases, and blocks. Useful for teams that use Notion as their central knowledge hub.
Where it shines: Creating documentation, updating databases, syncing agent output to team workspaces.
Pricing: Free (bundled).
Himalaya — Email via CLI
The bundled Himalaya skill manages emails via IMAP/SMTP. A lighter alternative to Google Workspace if you just need email access without the full suite.
Where it shines: Reading and replying to emails, email-based workflows, notification management.
Pricing: Free (bundled).
How to choose the right skills
Not every skill is relevant to every user. Here is a quick decision framework:
If you primarily do research: Start with Felo Search, Felo Web Fetch, and Felo X Search. Add arXiv if you work with academic papers. Use Felo LiveDoc to organize what you find.
If you create content: Felo Slides, Felo Content to Slides, and Felo YouTube Subtitling cover the creation pipeline. Felo Search feeds them with source material.
If you run infrastructure: GitHub skills, Claude Code delegation, and Hermes Incident Commander cover the DevOps basics. Add Composio for SaaS integrations.
If you want a general-purpose setup: Install the Felo Skills pack first (one command gets you all 9 research-to-delivery skills), add Google Workspace for email and calendar, and let Hermes Agent's self-improvement loop figure out which skills you use most.
Installing skills
Most skills follow one of two patterns:
Felo Skills — one command for all 9:
bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Felo-Inc/felo-skills/main/scripts/install-hermes.sh)
Bundled skills ship with Hermes Agent and load automatically — no extra installation needed.
Community skills — clone into skill directory:
cd ~/.hermes/skills
git clone https://github.com/[author]/[skill-repo].git
After installing, restart Hermes Agent. It scans the skill directory on startup and loads everything with a valid SKILL.md.
The skill ecosystem is still early
Hermes Agent is less than three months old. The skill ecosystem is growing fast — the awesome-hermes-agent repository tracks community contributions, and the bundled skills catalog keeps expanding with each release.
The best approach is to start with a proven set that covers your core workflow, then expand as needs become clearer. The Felo Skills pack covers research-to-delivery well as a starting point. Hermes Agent's self-improvement loop means the agent gets better at using whatever skills you give it, so the initial setup does not need to be perfect.
What matters more is that you start using skills in real workflows, not just installing them.
Explore Felo Skills for Hermes Agent to get started with the research-to-delivery toolchain, or browse the full bundled skills catalog for more options.