I Tested 100+ Hermes Agent Skills.... You Need These 13

I have tested hundreds of Hermes agent skills and most of them are complete garbage. And if you want to unlock Hermes full capabilities, you have to use the correct skills. And in this video, I'm going to show you the top 13 that you need to use so you can stop wasting your time, save money, and get light years ahead of everybody else. And if you [music] haven't already, grab that beautiful coffee and let's dive straight in. So the goal is a fully staffed Hermes agent. And I'm going to time stamp everything down below and give you the links for all these skills so you can very easily grab them. So skill one is the bouncer. Now imagine this party room being your Hermes agent. What the bouncer does is make sure that any skill that ever wants to come into your Hermes agent a has to be non-malicious. In other words, it works. But not only that, it will actually go ahead and search for other skills online to see if there are any other better alternatives. which means that you basically always get the best skills possible. What does it look like in practice? Again, I'll put all this down below in the link, but it's going to scan for prompt injections. It will research the market first. It will interview you to understand what you want the skill to do. And basically on that point, it will either autoallow, ask first, or deny and quarantine. Now, Hermes does a great job of doing this already, but these additional benefits and systems means that you only get the best quality skills that are available. And this takes us on to skill number two. Now, if your AI doesn't understand what you want, Hermes agent is never going to be able to give you the output that you actually need. Grill me will actually ask you questions to clarify what it is that you want automatically when you basically ask it to. And then essentially, it means it's going to actually perform the thing that you want it to. This comes from Matt PCO Skills. Again, all this will be down below for you. And what's really cool about this is essentially it just means that you're going to get way better output. So, for example, I could come to my Aentic OS or Telegram and I just ask it to grill me on something. For example, hey, I'm thinking about starting a brand new business. Could you just grill me on it to make sure it's a good idea? That's all you do. You go ahead and then at that point, it will come back and start asking questions. And by the way, to install the skills, all you ever do is bring the skill over and just say, "Hey, go ahead and install the skill." And then just drop the link to the repo or just copy and paste it. And the best way to think about Hermes is like a 500 IQ intern. It's super intelligent, but only if it knows what it's doing. And by asking questions, look, who's the exact customer? What's the painful recurring problem? My recommended answer is a narabara, etc., etc., and it's going down and using that skill. Skill three is about continuity. When you go from one agent to another, not only may you have to repeat yourself, but it could get things completely wrong, which is why we want to do a proper handover. And to do that, you can say, "I'd like you to go ahead and summarize all the things today and just write for me a handover document that I can take over now into claude code and pass on to another agent." Literally give it that prompt and Hermy's agent will go grab the skill and write you a fully detailed handover document. And if you're wondering, I haven't actually moved into a hotel room. I'm Montenegro right now. I'm doing an AI event. It has been a crazy week. Lots of cool stuff to update you with, but rest assured, there has been beautiful coffee and great weather, which by the way is dangerous because you have to make sure that you got the sunscreen on lockdown. Now, the handover document will go through states, decisions, next steps, suggested skills, and also secrets. Now, most people actually ask chat GPT or Hermes agent a question, and they just get one paragraph answers back. But this skill lets you actually turn Hermes agent into professor, meaning that you unlock new insights, and it becomes way more effective. So imagine if instead of him his agent just giving you these insights, it could actually teach you in a meaningful way. Well, this is what slash teach from Matt Poclls do. It's very cool. Basically, you understand the mission. So why are we learning this? It grounds every lesson in your actual goal. Uh one type thing at a time and then what actually stuck in the records once it's completely done. So to do that, we come over to Hermes and he can say, "Hey, I want you to go ahead and use my teach me skill to teach me the best way to grow an Instagram account." And just like that, it's access the skill. It says before lesson one, we need the mission. The skill teaches towards an outcome, not vanity followers. My recommendation, make Instagram your discovery agent. And then it'll start interviewing. So what do you want? Maybe we want audience and growth. Cool. It's great. And it just adds a like a way more structured way to engage with Hermes agent or Claude if you're using it for that so you can get better outcomes. Now the fifth skill is a meta skill and it will improve every other skill that you use and that is the ability to create great skills. So imagine, for example, if we could turn Hermes agent into the world's best skill writer. Well, we can do that with one specific prompt. And essentially, it's just a rule book that Hermes will bring in whenever it's creating new skills. For example, I could say, "Hey, I want you to go ahead and create a skill based on our conversation on AI models earlier. Please use your skill creator skill to do that." Now, important to bear in mind that sometimes you don't actually have to say use the skill creator. the agent should find that out, but they are probabilistic, which means that sometimes they just kind of decide not to do the thing that you ask them to do. And what that basically means is that if you're very specific on it, be directive. Just tell it to use the scum. But Hermes generally is good at doing that. Now, what it does, it uses a reusable AI model launch evidence hype video decision agent handoff scum, which is cool. So, it's checking whether expand your existing model launch skill or create a duplicate. So perm will actually go ahead and prune so you don't get loads of skill bloat. Now the way that this actually works is really cool. Matt's done an awesome job with this. Basically has inscult order. Then the rules on demand. So what are the rules? Then any linked files so loaded when they're needed. And then finally the description tax prune every word rides every turn. Also you don't want the skills be too verbose just to make it more token efficient. Now, the sixth skill is all about the ability to run your Homies agent 24/7. Now, I have one running at home on my Mac desktop, but not everybody has that. And if you close your laptop down, you can't use its most powerful features is the fact that it's running 24/7 for you on a VPS. So, skill six is about the ability to set this up on a virtual private server. Whether you want to run Hermes agent operating system or Hermes agent itself, we can do that on a private machine virtually. Whether your laptop is closed down or you're underground, wherever you are, you want to be able to use Hermes agent. And funnily enough, this setup is actually quite straightforward. I'm the Montenegro now, hence the background. I actually met the hosting team and we're talking about Hermes and I was like, you guys should definitely sponsor some content cuz I get this question all the time. So, thanks to Hostinger for sponsoring this part of the video. And whether you're setting up an Aentic Hermes operating system or Hermes agent itself, I found the easiest way of doing this is with hosting it. So, I'm going to put a link for this down below. Oh, and all you can do is come down and choose plan. And if you have it running on your own computer, awesome. But if you don't have the ability to do that, you may want to look at something so you can run it 24/7 when you're out grabbing those beautiful coffees. And if you've already got this set up, feel free to click on the next section down below. I've timestamped everything for you. But a lot of people find this really helpful, especially if you're looking at an OS or you just don't have the ability to do it. So KVM2 is more than enough for Hermes agent. So that's the one that I usually go with. Just go ahead and choose plan. Then once you land on this page here, you're going to pick the period. So you can do monthly, annually or bannually. The longer the period, the better the offer. And if you go for annual or bannual and you can actually use the code Jack Roberts and that will apply an additional 10% off the entire order on annual and buy your plans. So thank you for hosting it for sharing that with the people. Now what's really important here is that this will automatically install Hermes agent on the auto deploy when you actually set this up. Now we don't need these Nexus credits, so I'm just going to untick those there. and we're going to be using OpenAI instead. Then we want to pick the server location. So you want to pick the one typically speaking with the best latency. So I'm going to go ahead and pick Germany for this one. Then as you can see, you get a deal if you're doing 24 months. I've already got mine, so I'm set for that. Then come down and click on continue. Then once you've done that, you'll actually get signed in and it will start to set up your entire VPS, which is awesome. Cool. Then when you're on this dashboard, all you're going to do is come down here and you're going to see in your to-dos, you're going to come down and click on setup. And then on the right hand side, come over and click on setup here. Cool. And then we're going to land on this page. You're going to click on Germany once again if that one is the correct one for you. Then on this section, all you're going to do is come down and type in Hermes like so. And then you got Hermes agent, Hermes Web UI, and Hermes workspace. But we're going to go ahead and click on Hermes agent real quick, like so. Come down and then click on select. So to make this process pretty straightforward, pretty easy. And then you're going to have an admin username and an admin password. Go ahead and copy this admin password. And once you've done that, come down and click on deploy. Then once that's happened, hosting will set up the VPF for you. So if you're doing it on a VPS, this is the panel from which you manage it. As we can see, we have Hermes agent up and running. And we have this as well, meaning that we can access it securely from other locations. And then to get this set up, it is unbelievably easy. All you're going to do is click on the terminal, which is just fancy word for place where we can talk to the computer. So just like I have the computer that you're working on right now, the terminal is basically the you're talking to the computer where Hermes agent is hosted. Then once that terminal loads up, don't be intimidated by a terminal. It's just the way that you talk to your computer. And here we're interfacing with the computer on this virtual private server. It is like talking to a chatbot, but you need to be sort of specific with your commands. I put down below as well a full Hermes connection guide. You can literally follow this entire thing step by step. So all we're going to do is come back here and copy the last four letters of this. Then come over to your setup guide. And the first thing we're doing is copying this command right here. And then we're going over to terminal. And you're going to pop that in. and instead of xxx just enter in your four digits. So for me that's MVP1 and click on enter. Then all we're going to do is go ahead and access the Hermes container. So we are going to copy this second section right here. Come straight back over and then enter that bad boy in like so. And then click enter. Finally let's go ahead and do the Hermes setup. So just copy this, swing straight back over here. Enter that in. And then bada bing boom we should get the full Hermes setup. So we can do the quick setup that works on with Hermes agent or you can do the full setup. come down here for example, then I hit uh spacebar. That will then select it and you can go down and effectively configure everything and then you'll have your Hermes agent running. I highly recommend if you haven't already, by the way, you want to go ahead and connect it to Open AI because you can use your chat GPT subscription. So come down here. I might press uh open on that and then open AI codeex will just let me basically connect my chat GPT subscription and then you just follow the instructions set up. You can connect it to Telegram super easily and then you'll have your entire Hermes agent running on your phone and you can use it whenever you want to fully host it and you can come back and control it in your actual panel. Imagine a doctor inside Hermes that could actually look at everything that exists within it to make sure it was as efficient as humanly possible. Now whether you're using for example Hermes agent here in the dashboard or maybe you're using claw code it doesn't really matter. What was really interesting is the Anthropic itself, right, the engineers deleted over 80% of CL code system prompts with zero loss in coding performance. So what I did with this is looked what Claude did and I was like, well, let's just do this in Hemy's agent. So it's got six examinations, but it does uh no controversial examinations I might add. Always on memory. So looking at soul.md profile, standing memory, everything being loaded every turn. The skill description tag. So every school descriptor rides every turn. Flags for 300 plus characters. Stale schools we don't need tool schema footprint confident blow disclosure check. And this has got everything it needs. It will do one of five things. Cut it. Basically quarantine it never hard delete. Merge, move, defer, or trim. And by the way, if if all of this is sounding like I'm speaking Spanish, I'm going to put a link down below for the full Hermes agent masterass. It covers everything from foundations, setup, powering Hermes down to creating websites, all the power features that I've never included online before. It's really, really powerful. And you also alongside that get full access to the Hermesogentic operating system that has everything really crisp onboarding and will make a lot of sense for you as well. So the idea with the contact doctor, again, all the skills are down below for you, is that you can literally go over to Hermes. So then just ask your HES agent to run this skill on everything it's got and it'll come back consult you and show you some very interesting findings and each of the skills I'm going to show you is more powerful than the one before it. Now when you come to asking questions to anything Hermes or Claude it's only as good as the actual results you get which is why level eight and skill 8 is pretty incredible. So the last 30 days goes through X YouTube Reddit and finds what people have actually said. It looks at the up votes and gives you the actual best research on what's happened in those last 30 days. Example, we've got Reddit ups, X likes, YouTube transcripts, hacker news, poly market odds, GitHub commits. It searches essentially all these different platforms to give you something awesome. Well, best explained by an example. But one of the limitations of Telegram is the fact you can do one chat at a time, which is why I really like this agentic OS because I can have one chat here and say, "Hey, explain to me the um last 30 days skill." for example, send that bad boy off. It will do its work. Then if I want to, I can just open up a brand new chat and have a completely different conversation. I can come down here on the left hand side and pretty much chat to all my previous things. I can jump onto cloud code and I'll just do all of this together. And I also get to see the tokens I'm using, what it's syncing on, and exactly what it's doing. So if you don't have an OS, I highly recommend that you build one. And there we go, guys. Look at this. We got the last 30 days in Hermes agent skills. It tells you for 30 days what changed. So grounded citations skill became skills become became more context efficient. Where is my coffee when I need it? Right. Skill lifestyle got zap skill discoveries becoming more behavioral what people are actually watching all these different videos. Um and then it will go ahead and rank them based on where it gets them. YouTube hacker news blah blah blah all this sort of stuff. So literally just give it one prompt run away. Two little call outs though. So this blocked Reddit and general web. Two ways around that. One is you can give it a Reddit credential, but if you sign in and give it your cookie, it will use that cookie to get the information. You just have to configure that in the skill. And the other thing here with the general web is I use firecrawl for my stuff, but of course you can just do general searches if you'd like to do that to expand out the entire search. Skill 9 is pretty incredible. And what this does is essentially learns anything that you wanted to. Let me give you a great example of this. Let's say, for example, we go into YouTube and let's say I find a channel. And by the way, podcasts out guys. Oh my gosh, what's going on with the podcast? I go on to Veritassium and let's say, you know, I like Veritassium. It's a cool video, but maybe I want to get a I know I love Veritassium, but maybe I want to get a TLDDR. Well, I could come here and say, "Hey, summarize this video into five crisp bullets and tell me the first and last sentence." So, I can get information from YouTube if I want to pretty easily. But what if it's got information that I want to go ahead and talk to or learn about later? Well, what I can do here actually is literally grab the URL, head over to Hermes agent. So I can come over to Hermes agent do/arn enter that in there and basically Hermes agent will go and learn that information. Now this is a skill so freaking cool. They actually built it into Hermes agent. It is amazing. This also works by the way after you've done or built a skill. So say for example we're working on a connection with a business or some kind of other thing. You can just say to homies, hey we've just built a thumbnail or we just built an image. Learn this skill and everything that it just did will turn into a skill. Which is incredible. And obviously I like to save certain informations into my agentic operating system memory that runs on my computer or runs your VPS if you're hosting it on on your VPS. So you can talk to it and ask questions whenever you like. Level 10 is the art director. Now this is the difficult but incredible ability to build things that actually look beautiful. Now he's got lots of stuff with the golden ratio. Now the thing is that people really over complicate design but when you use the right skill you get better designs with less. And what I've done here is use power design uh which is something that I built. And essentially what I did is I looked at universal design principles. For example, if you go to apple.com, one of the things that you'll notice is the golden ratio, which is subheadings and headings or a ratio of 1.1 1.61 to the other. And that's just one example of a principle that you know design principles that run through all the best design systems that we have. So, for example, Power Design brings down for 20 universal designs for AI superpowers that kind of makes beautiful simplistic designs, which is cool stuff like ratios and um the number of like text densities and image density. And then 21st.dev is this beautiful repository and library of just gorgeous interactive elements and components that we can grab and build and things. idea being that we want some degree of creative license. But there's cool stuff like scroll animations and um expansion and really cool stuff that we can just give to Hermes agent to unlock in slot and things, you know, clients, compassions, darks, features, futters, you name it. It can grab these cool things from this. So, this skill merges them both together, keeping it light and making the designs look incredible. And by the way, to use this skill, you need to authorize the 21st.dev CLI. Just fancy words for saying command line interface or just way that it connects to it. It'll just ask you to sign in. So just sign in with your email or GitHub and then you'll be ready to rock and roll. And beautiful. So now we have a website. Cool. Nice little vibe going on in the background. Scroll down. Some nice animations that come down. A little interactivity. And bear in mind, you can build like really good fullyfledged websites. This is just an example of like a good design principles that you can build on. Obviously, if we went back and forth with it, we could make it look amazing, but you get the idea. Now, skill 11 honestly is the most valuable skill that I've used, and it's the morning brief. And the idea is that my homies agent actually goes ahead and checks on a daily basis all the meetings I've got in my calendar, all my emails in my inbox and says, "Jack, hey, this thing is happening today. This is stuff that you need to do." To connect this though, you do need to give him his access to things like a Gmail, your Outlook. Personally, for this, I use a service called Zapia. I actually, funny story, built my first tech startup using Zapia. So, I had a little bit of sentimental connection, but it's really cool for a lot of reasons. mainly because if you do join Zappia and grab some Zappy stuff, you can connect to things that you can't connect to directly sometimes. For example, school API is a really good example of this. Uh as you can see, school if you're in a community, it's very very handy. Some stuff you can connect to directly, but it will be helpful in terms of saving time. For instance, if you come down for Outlook, you can actually specifically say the things that you do and don't want to give access to. And essentially what you do with Hermes agent here is you come back over. So, we grab access to the apps. Hermes writes a brief and then it's delivered to your phone or you can even chat with it wherever you want to. And effectively, you say, "Hey, I want you to send me a morning brief every morning. Look at my calendar. Look at my emails and look at our conversations from the last 7 days or the last month. And based on that, I want you to tell me what to focus on today. What's one thing that I could do to improve?" And you can even ask Hermes to spin up a sub agent to work in the background whilst you're literally sleeping. So, you get this beautiful morning brief at 7:00 a.m. Maybe we're up at 6:00. Maybe we're up at 5:00. I don't know when we're up, but whenever we're up, we get that beautiful morning brief. I genuinely think it's one of the most helpful things that you can do when using Hermes Agent. Now, skill 12 is the ability to actually create any images or video. I call this the studio. So, this could be anything from editing your thumbnails to, you know, creating videos. You literally name it. Now, to do this, I personally like using Higsfield just because the UI is gorgeous and it just seems to work better for me when I use this. Now, for example, this website here, the pull press is something I built using this. All this video generation was absolutely gorgeous. I'll put a link on screen if you want to learn exactly how to build this. I built an entire skill. I'll give it completely for free. You can check it out. But the cool thing we can do with Hickfield and I'll put a link for this down below. But we can connect Hermes agent to Hicksfield using the CLI. All you literally do is click on Hermes here and you can copy this like so. Then head over to your Hermes agent and just basically drop this in like so. And what it'll do is essentially open up a new window. You click that and then you're fully connected. I'm already connected, so I'm ready to rock and roll. And what I can do here is literally give it any image. So let's give it this image of GLO announcing that we're available on Windows. And let's just say, hey, I want you to use the Higsfield CLI and Nano Banana to change the text. Instead of saying now available on Windows or Mac, make it say something like uh I don't know, Jack loves beautiful coffee. Change nothing else. All right. Send that off. And literally what this can do now inside your homies agent is use that CLI to make amendments to any images and generate things for you. Let's come back and so Jack loves beautiful coffee. Never have true words been spoken. I just think it's so cool that you just access these models so easily in Hermes agent. And then if you actually come back over to Higsfield you can see if you go over to like images for example everything that you just did. Then that takes us on to skill 13 which is the Ministry of Experts which is so handy. Now what's really cool about this? Now imagine it like this. Instead of speaking to one guy that's intelligent, well, one person can only understand so much, what this skill lets us do is take the most intelligent model that exists and then what we effectively do is bring in other experts that this model talks to so that your answer and the quality of your answers goes up because you may forget things, you may have biases. But when we bring in three different models, let let me show you what I mean with this because when we do bring in three different models, it changes the dynamics a bit. So I'm in my gent here and I built this because I think it's really freaking helpful to look at it this way. But if I go over to Ministry of Experts and you can do this directly in Hermes. You don't have to do it here. I just really like using it here. Now what's really cool with this is I can pick the leading model. So let's say I want to check out Claude Fable. I click on that. I can see that it's number one on the arena. I can check out its stats. And what I can do is literally come over, grab this, and drop it in. Now the way this works is you ask it a question. And Claude Fable 5 here will actually, let's say we ask it something like, "Hey, um, what should I do in my business to double my net profit?" Well, Claude Fable 5 will grill you based on the skills that we used earlier. And then it will ask Deepseek V4 the same question. It will ask GLM 5.2 and GPT 5.5. And then we can also configure how many tokens we want them to use. So you can see uh here for example we may have something like sweet spot references station and sharp or we can go uh full sort of like um if you think about like the odyssey level of information if you want to then fable 5 looks at those three questions those three responses and then gives you an answer based on that and it's so so cool and to activate it all you need to do is come down and do forward slash and just type MOA and it just runs it through your mixture of agents model present and just say hey I want to know how to double my net profit please tell me how and the Cool thing about this is it's also token saving because it brings over the cash in a really cool way. All fans would speak of just saying that they've really put a lot of attention to this so that it's actually token efficient when you're using these three models and you're not wasting credits. And so for example, I come back and look at this. It's come back with the different levers ranked by leverage and again it's flagged exactly which models to use and why. Now we know the 13 skills in Hermes agent. The next thing we need to do is learn one of the most profitable skills that we can have, and that is the ability to build beautiful and gorgeous websites. Whether you want it for your own business or someone else's, we're going to do it together in this video right