The best Hermes Agent skills are the ones that turn a one-off chat into a job that runs every day without you — a daily brief, keyword research, inbox triage, content from your videos. In the video below I show 10 skills that turn Hermes into a super agent. Here’s my list, where to find thousands more, and the trick of getting Hermes to write skills for you.
Key takeaways
- A Hermes skill is a reusable procedure the agent follows — and it can create its own.
- Hermes skills are compatible with agentskills.io, shared through the Skills Hub.
- The best skills pair with cron so they run on a schedule.
- Start with three skills that save you time every day.
What Hermes Agent skills are
Skills are Hermes’s procedural memory: step-by-step instructions, sometimes with scripts, for doing a specific job well. Hermes creates skills from work you do together and reuses them, so it gets better the more you use it. They follow the open agentskills.io format, and you can browse and share them through the Skills Hub — the Hermes catalogue pulls from registries with tens of thousands of skills.
Best Hermes Agent skills: my top 10
| # | Skill | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daily brief | Researches news in your niche and messages you a summary |
| 2 | Keyword research | Finds fresh keywords and checks your existing pages |
| 3 | Content brief | Turns a keyword into a researched outline |
| 4 | Inbox triage | Sorts, labels and drafts replies |
| 5 | Video to content | Turns a transcript into a blog post, posts and an email |
| 6 | Competitor watch | Checks competitors and reports changes |
| 7 | Lead finder | Researches prospects and drafts personalised outreach |
| 8 | File organiser | Renames and files documents properly |
| 9 | Weekly report | Pulls numbers and writes the summary |
| 10 | Skill builder | Turns any workflow you just did into a reusable skill |
None of these are exotic. The value comes from running them every day without thinking.
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How to get the best Hermes Agent skills
- Ask Hermes to make one. Do a job together once, then say: “Turn what we just did into a skill.”
- Browse the Skills Hub from the Hermes docs or agentskills.io.
- Reuse Claude skills — the agentskills.io format means many carry across.
- Install plugins that add skills from the Hermes plugin catalogue.
Put your skills on a schedule
A skill you have to remember to run isn’t saving you much. Hermes has built-in cron jobs that can deliver results to any connected platform, so pair each skill with a schedule: the daily brief at 6am, inbox triage at 8am, the weekly report on Friday afternoon, all sent to Telegram or Slack.
Tips for writing great Hermes skills
- One job per skill. “Weekly SEO report”, not “do my marketing”.
- Write the rules down — formats, tone, word counts, where files go.
- Include an example of a great output.
- Say what to check before it finishes.
- Review and refine — tell Hermes to update the skill when it gets something wrong.
Hermes skills vs plugins vs tools
| Type | What it is | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Skill | Instructions the agent follows for a job | Write a weekly SEO report |
| Tool | A built-in ability Hermes calls | web_search, browser, terminal, cronjob |
| Plugin | Code that adds features or tools | A memory provider, a voice plugin |
Skills sit on top of tools: a “daily brief” skill tells Hermes to use web_search, summarise, and deliver to Telegram. That’s why the right tools matter too.
Example: my daily brief skill
Here’s the shape of a skill that works. Name: Daily AI brief. Trigger: every day at 6am. Steps: search the last 24 hours of AI news from a list of trusted sources; pick the five stories that matter for my audience; for each, write two sentences and a link; flag anything that would make a good video. Output: a Telegram message under 300 words. Checks: no story older than 24 hours, every claim linked.
Clear trigger, clear steps, clear output, clear checks — that’s the template for every skill on the list above.
Where skills fit in my business
Skills are the reason Hermes gets more valuable every week. Each time I find myself explaining the same process twice — how I want a video turned into a blog post, how I check a keyword before writing, how I format a report — I turn it into a skill. After a few months that library becomes a real asset: it’s my way of working, written down, and any agent in my Agent OS can follow it. That’s also why skills beat one-off prompts: a prompt helps once, a skill helps every day.
The other benefit is consistency. A skill does the job the same way every time, which makes the results easy to review and easy to improve. When something goes wrong, you fix the skill once and every future run gets better. That’s a very different experience from re-prompting a chatbot and hoping it remembers what you meant last time.
How I’d get started this week
Monday: do one repetitive job with Hermes in chat and ask it to save the process as a skill. Tuesday: schedule that skill with cron and send the result to Telegram. Wednesday to Friday: review each output and tell Hermes what to change. Next week, add a second skill. In a month you’ll have four or five skills running every day — and you’ll wonder how you worked without them.
Common skill mistakes
- Skills that are too broad — Hermes does better with one clear job.
- No examples — show it what good looks like.
- No checks — tell it what to verify before finishing.
- Never reviewing outputs — the first week of results tells you what to fix.
- Too many skills at once — add one a week and keep the ones you use.
Fix those five and your skills will run reliably without babysitting. The goal is a small library of skills you trust, not a huge one you never check.
The bottom line on the best Hermes Agent skills
The best Hermes Agent skills are simple, specific and scheduled. Pick three jobs you do every week, turn them into skills, put them on cron, and Hermes starts paying for itself.
FAQ: best hermes agent skills
What are Hermes Agent skills?
Reusable procedures Hermes follows for specific jobs; it can create, improve and reuse them.
Where do I find Hermes skills?
In the Skills Hub (agentskills.io) and the Hermes docs, or by asking Hermes to create one.
Can Hermes use Claude skills?
Many carry over, since Hermes skills use the open agentskills.io format.
What are the best Hermes skills to start with?
A daily brief, inbox triage and turning your videos or notes into content.
Can Hermes skills run automatically?
Yes — pair them with Hermes’s built-in cron jobs.
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About Julian Goldie
I’m Julian Goldie — founder of Goldie Agency, best-selling author, and an AI educator with 428K+ YouTube subscribers. I’ve spent 10+ years in SEO and online business and I test every AI agent on my own work before I recommend it. Join the AI Profit Boardroom for the daily builds, or book a free strategy session to talk through yours.
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Last updated October 2026. This page is a living guide to best hermes agent skills — the facts here move fast and it is updated as they do.