Why: the web dashboard is being deprecated in favour of the Electron Desktop
app, and a skill that ships a bespoke cron blueprint should not be bundled by
default. Reconfigure instead of just rebasing:
- Move skills/productivity/live-dashboard -> optional-skills/productivity/
live-dashboard (install with `hermes skills install
official/productivity/live-dashboard`); register it like every other
optional skill: per-skill docs page under user-guide/skills/optional/,
optional-skills-catalog row, sidebars entry.
- Desktop reality: add a "Show the dashboard" step — when `desktop_preview`
is in the toolset (Desktop/GUI sessions) render index.html in the in-app
preview pane after every build/tick and on request; otherwise report the
absolute file path. Prerequisites section added (Enough1122 review).
- Drop the hard-wired cron/blueprint_catalog.py entry: the curated catalog
is for bundled skills and would preload a skill that may not be
installed. Use the skills-pipeline blueprint instead —
`metadata.hermes.blueprint` on the SKILL.md registers a daily
all-dashboards sweep as a /suggestions entry at install time (opt-in,
never auto-scheduled), which is exactly the mechanism main provides for
optional skills.
- Never hardcode ~/.hermes in prose the agent executes: refer to the Hermes
home directory's dashboards/<slug>/ and write absolute paths into cron
prompts (also answers the review's "tick prompt must name the state-file
path" point).
- Tests follow the skill to optional-skills/, the catalog-blueprint tests
are replaced by one parse_blueprint/blueprint_to_job_spec invariant and
one desktop_preview-with-path-fallback invariant.
Optional skill: scroll-as-timeline landing pages on a deterministic
CSS/JS engine, with interview → page grammar → signature move workflow
and screenshot-based scroll verification. Engine and scripts vendored
verbatim; asset generation re-anchored on image_generate with the
upstream kie.ai flow kept as an optional path.
Port of https://github.com/achimala/dream-loop (MIT, 400+ stars in 48h).
An autonomous loop for building visually impressive 3D scenes/games:
generate photorealistic concept art, build (three.js/WebGL/Blender),
screenshot the live build, judge screenshot-vs-concept on a 5-tier score
ladder, iterate to convergence with explicit exit criteria.
Prose-only port rebound to Hermes-native tools: image_generate for
concept art, vision_analyze for judging (side-by-side composite
workaround documented), browser_exec capture_screenshot for live builds,
delegate_task for parallel asset work. Upstream ladder, failure modes,
time-budget and exit rules preserved. optional-skills/ placement.
Ports the system-atlas agent skill: one data.mjs file renders both an
interactive isometric HTML map (progressive-disclosure chapters, moving
data packets, question tracking by Q-ID) and a generated text twin
(SYSTEM.md) for the repo.
Why: architecture discussions that outgrow a single diagram — the skill
encodes hard-earned rules (max 3 structures per chapter, shapes+labels,
docs-policy ask before committing). Upstream 410 stars since Aug 20,
VoltAgent-listed; complements architecture-diagram (static SVG) with an
explorable, stateful artifact.
- optional-skills/creative/system-atlas/: SKILL.md (89 lines),
references/ (design language, process lessons), assets/ (build.mjs,
template.html, data.example.mjs) vendored verbatim; LICENSE.txt (MIT,
Harshyt Goel)
- Live smoke: node --check both .mjs OK; node build.mjs produced
atlas.html (41.5 KB) + SYSTEM.md from the example data, zero deps
- docs: own catalog row + generated page + sidebar entry only
Port of https://github.com/yanliudesign/mono-color-skill (MIT, 2.9k
stars in 3 weeks). Generates original one-ink or controlled two-ink
editorial print images (risograph/duotone/monochrome poster aesthetic)
driven by machine-readable design-system catalogs: substrate/ink
palettes, composition geometry, typography roles, rhythm, controlled
imperfections — all vendored verbatim as the source of truth.
Upstream 34 KB SKILL.md restructured into a hub (143-line core + three
references). Image generation rebound to image_generate; hardcoded
'~/Desktop/Claude skills' path replaced with a neutral output dir.
Upstream examples/ are all-rights-reserved (ASSET-LICENSE.md) and are
NOT vendored — MIT text + catalogs only, with a NOTICE. optional-skills/
placement.
Ports the pr-lens agent skill: represent a diff or subsystem as one
graph.json document and render it as animated SVG diagrams via the MIT
npx CLI (@coldtea/pr-lens-cli), with optional opt-in publishing to a
shareable canvas link.
Why: PR review and architecture explanation keep producing hand-drawn
Mermaid; this gives validated, animated, drill-down diagrams with a
deterministic document format. Upstream created Aug 20, 1.1k stars in
3 weeks, GitHub App + Action + CLI + skill.
- optional-skills/software-development/pr-lens/: SKILL.md (145 lines),
references/ (config, graph document format, valid example) vendored
near-verbatim, LICENSE.txt (MIT, Coldtea AI)
- gh --attach caveat handled: installed gh 2.97 lacks the flag; skill
documents honest fallbacks (gist, canvas link, local path)
- Live smoke: validate + render of the vendored example graph passed
(4 SVGs + manifest produced)
- docs: own catalog row + generated page + sidebar entry only
The twozero TouchDesigner integration now lives in one installable unit:
plugin-catalog/touchdesigner.yaml points at NousResearch/hermes-plugin-touchdesigner
(portable Agent Plugins v1: mcp.json registers the twozero Streamable HTTP hub, skills/
carries touchdesigner-mcp). `hermes plugins install touchdesigner` + `hermes plugins
enable td` replaces the optional skill whose setup.sh hand-wrote an mcp_servers block.
The manifest name is `td` because Hermes names portable MCP tools
mcp__agent_plugin_<name>_<hash>__<server>__<tool>; twozero's longest tool under a
`touchdesigner` namespace is 71 chars, past the 64-char provider function-name cap.
optional-skills/creative/touchdesigner-mcp and its generated docs (bundled, optional,
zh-Hans) are removed; catalog tables, sidebar and kanban-video-orchestrator references
are updated to point at the plugin. Supersedes #68607 (MCP-catalog-only approach).
Install with hermes skills install official/autonomous-ai-agents/dynamic-workflow.
Orchestration-campaign guidance is niche enough not to sit in every default prompt index.
tt-a1i/archify (MIT, 57k stars) turns a typed JSON spec into validated,
self-contained interactive HTML diagrams (architecture / workflow /
sequence / dataflow / lifecycle) with a 9-check validate/deliver receipt,
Mermaid import and PNG/SVG/WebM export. The upstream repo already ships a
complete skill directory (archify/), so this follows the impeccable
pattern: a catalog stub whose metadata.hermes.upstream pointer makes
`hermes skills install official/creative/archify` pull the live tree
through OptionalSkillSource._fetch_from_upstream. Nothing executable is
vendored and the copy can never go stale.
Docs: generated page, one catalog row, one sidebar line.
Credit: tt-a1i (upstream author). Supersedes the vendored-references
port in #106442.
* refactor(skills): shipped-set slim — 15 skills to optional, github six-way merge, pdf absorbs OCR+nano-pdf, channel-gated teams pipeline
Maintainer-directed shipped-skills curation (skills index 1,900 -> ~1,400
tok/call on desktop; every session pays the index, so this is a per-call
diet on all installs):
- optional-skills moves (installable via skills hub, history preserved):
creative comfyui/ascii-art/excalidraw/pretext/sketch/touchdesigner-mcp;
ALL of mlops (huggingface-hub, llama-cpp, serving-llms-vllm,
weights-and-biases, evaluating-llms-harness — subcategory structure
kept); research-paper-writing (55 supporting files, 17.3K-tok load);
openhue; blogwatcher (first taught the cronjob monitor-field watch
pattern + web_extract instead of pre-cron manual workflows)
- DELETED session-librarian (Aug-12 'inspired by Perplexity Computer'
port, never maintainer-intended; session_search covers discovery)
- github: six skills (auth, issues, pr-workflow, issue-to-pr,
code-review, repo-management) merged into ONE software-development/
github skill — routing body + complete per-workflow references;
benbarclay authorship credited; codebase-inspection rides along;
discipline pins from test_github_issue_to_pr_skill.py preserved
against the reference body in the new test_github_skill.py
- pdf absorbs ocr-and-documents + nano-pdf as references/ + scripts
(extract_pymupdf, extract_marker converted to the argparse house
standard its contract test enforces)
- NEW session_platforms frontmatter gate (metadata.hermes): hides a
skill from the index on gateway channels it is not for; fail-open on
unknown platform; teams-meeting-pipeline gated to [teams, cron]
- blocked-page-recovery: research -> new web category; trigger-first
description ('Use when a fetch fails: 403/429, paywall, WAF, bot
wall.') so the model actually reaches for it on blocked fetches
- docs regenerated via generate-skill-docs.py (195 pages); related_skills
swept repo-wide; tests: 1672 passed (2 openclaw failures pre-existing
on clean main, Windows-local)
* chore: ignore .skills_prompt_snapshot.json (local index cache, accidentally committed)
platforms field added, description under the 60-char hardline, dangling
premium-webapp-ui related_skills ref dropped (user-profile skill, not in
the repo tree). Docs page + catalog row regenerated to match.
hermes skills install impeccable (and the docs-page install button) now
installs the impeccable frontend-design skill as an official optional-skills
entry. The local optional-skills/creative/impeccable/ dir is a catalog STUB:
its frontmatter declares metadata.hermes.upstream (repo + path), and
OptionalSkillSource.fetch() pulls the real 163-file bundle live from
pbakaus/impeccable:.hermes/skills/impeccable — the Hermes-native bundle
upstream maintains and verifies. Nothing vendored, never stale.
New mechanism (generic, not impeccable-specific):
- OptionalSkillSource._upstream_pointer(): parses/validates the upstream
pointer (owner/name repo, clean relative path, traversal rejected).
- _fetch_from_upstream(): delegates to GitHubSource.fetch(), relabels the
bundle official/<rel> at trust 'trusted' (curated endorsement, but
third-party content — dangerous scan verdicts still block).
- The live-repo fallback path redirects stubs the same way, so stale local
checkouts behave identically.
Three real gaps this surfaced, all fixed:
- GitHubSource.fetch() only downloaded SKILL.md plus paths linked from a
canonical support dir (references/, scripts/, ...). Impeccable keeps its
playbooks under reference/ (singular) and links scripts only from
reference files, so fetch shipped 1 of 163 files. fetch() now downloads
the full skill directory via the git tree (same approach as the
optional-skills live fetch), still rejecting symlinks/hidden/unsafe paths
and still failing on a missing SKILL.md-linked references/ path.
- The five env_exfil_* scanner patterns flagged loopback requests as
critical exfiltration: impeccable's live mode polls
http://localhost:PORT/status?token=TOKEN and scored two CRITICALs.
Scheme-anchored loopback exemption added; evil.com/?u=localhost decoys
still fire (10-case regex matrix in tests).
- unified_search() truncated to limit before ranking, so official catalog
entries got crowded out by skills.sh mirrors and bare-name installs
stalled on an ambiguity table. Results now stable-sort by trust rank
before the cut, and _resolve_short_name prefers a sole official exact
match over community mirrors.
Also fixes pre-existing test pollution: TestInstallPathSafety's fixture
monkeypatched the PEP 562 dynamic SKILLS_DIR, permanently shadowing dynamic
resolution and breaking the served_repo E2E tests in any combined run
(reproducible on main).
Validation: live E2E do_install("impeccable") against real GitHub —
resolves to official/creative/impeccable, verdict SAFE, 163 files on disk,
skill loads, /impeccable slash command registers. 128/128 targeted tests;
full-dir fetch test sabotage-verified. Docs: optional-skills catalog row,
generated skill page, sidebar.
Reverts the plan-interrogation rename from #97831 per maintainer decision —
the skill keeps its original grill-me name. The content upgrade (design-tree
frontier-rounds interview mechanic from mattpocock/skills' grilling) stays.
Docs page, catalog row, and sidebar entry renamed back.
Ports the MIT-licensed 'to-questionnaire' skill from mattpocock/skills as
decision-questionnaire (optional-skills/productivity). Interviews the user
about the send only (recipient + needed outcomes), then drafts a
most-important-first discovery questionnaire with answer stubs to
decision-questionnaire-<slug>.md. Includes staging tests for frontmatter
standards, template sections, and de-upstreaming.
Ports the MIT-licensed 'wizard' skill from mattpocock/skills as
setup-wizard-generator (optional-skills/devops). Generates an interactive
bash wizard that walks a human through manual procedures: opens dashboard
URLs, captures values (hidden entry for secrets), writes .env / GitHub
secrets idempotently, and confirms each stage. Vendors upstream's
template.sh library verbatim (bash -n verified) plus a staging test suite
covering frontmatter, template integrity, and de-upstreaming.
Renames the optional grill-me skill to the more descriptive plan-interrogation
and upgrades it with the design-tree frontier-rounds mechanic from
mattpocock/skills' MIT-licensed 'grilling' skill: batch all currently-askable
questions per round in dependency order, agent finds facts itself, decisions
stay with the user. Docs page, catalog row, and sidebar entry renamed.
Per the 'when in doubt, optional' rule — plan-interview is an
on-request capability, not a weekly daily-driver for most users.
Install via: hermes skills install official/software-development/grill-me
Per the 'when in doubt, optional' rule — site publishing is an
on-request capability, not a weekly daily-driver for most users.
Joins cloudflare-temporary-deploy/page-agent under
optional-skills/web-development (existing category, existing
DESCRIPTION.md kept; the new bundled category dir is dropped).
Install via: hermes skills install official/web-development/publish-site
The upstream ahujasid/blender-mcp and ahujasid/ableton-mcp GitHub repos
were hijacked on 2026-08-08: the maintainer (@sidahuj) publicly reported
his account was compromised and ownership stripped, and both repos now
redirect to an attacker-controlled org (MCPBlender, created the same
day, pushing new commits since).
Although our catalog pinned blender-mcp==1.6.4 from PyPI (pre-compromise,
sha256 verified unchanged), the server is only half the bridge: the
manifest's post-install instructions and the optional skill directed
users to download addon.py — arbitrary Python executed inside Blender —
from the now-compromised GitHub repo (the raw URL currently 404s, and
the addon ships in no PyPI artifact). There is no trustworthy source
for the addon half, so the entry cannot be installed safely end-to-end.
Removing the catalog entry and skill entirely until the maintainer
confirms account recovery; re-adding is a follow-up PR once upstream
is verified clean.
- optional-mcps/blender/: removed
- optional-skills/creative/blender-mcp/: removed
- docs: catalog rows, sidebar entry, skill pages (en + zh-Hans) removed
- cross-references in unreal-mcp and kanban-video-orchestrator cleaned
New tests/skills/test_authoring_standards.py parametrizes every bundled +
optional SKILL.md (1148 checks) against the mechanically-verifiable subset
of the hardline standards:
- required frontmatter fields (name/description/version/author/license/
platforms) + tags
- frontmatter name == directory name
- description <= 60 chars, ends with period, no marketing words
- related_skills resolve in-repo
- no machine-local paths
- <= 100k chars
Grandfather dict for legacy debt ships EMPTY — all pre-existing violations
fixed in this PR:
- 13 frontmatter names canonicalized to their directory names (the install
identifier); all related_skills references updated (comfyui -> stable-
diffusion). Fixes the class behind PR #42788's report; also fixes
here.now's invalid dot-name.
- optional-skills/devops/cli -> inference-sh-cli (dir was the generic
'cli'; fm name was right) incl. docs pages (en + zh-Hans), catalog row,
sidebar entry.
- pytorch-fsdp: 157k generated 'Quick Reference' dump moved to
references/common-patterns.md; SKILL.md 159k -> 2.5k with a pointer.
- research-paper-writing: 31.7k Phase 5 drafting section moved to
references/phase5-paper-drafting.md; SKILL.md 103k -> 71k.
Docs regenerated with scope discipline.
- description 210 -> 57 chars; author credits Ben Barclay (benbarclay) first
- optional-skills/creative/ (marketing vertical, narrowest audience of
the batch)
- dropped phantom 'image-generation-workflow' ref; visuals via the
image_generate tool
- honest handoff language: platforms without connectors end at approved
drafts marked handed-off, never claimed as published
- tests (10) incl. phantom-ref and honest-handoff guards
- docs regen scoped: per-skill page + one catalog row + one sidebar line
Fleet audit showed these task skills are commonly needed across users;
shipping bundled per Teknium's direction. Docs and tests follow the
bundled paths.
Per the 'when in doubt, optional' rule — niche prediction-market data
skill that sees no regular use; belongs alongside stocks in the finance
optional category rather than the default bundle.
Install via: hermes skills install official/finance/polymarket
Auto-gen page slugs, catalog rows/paths, sidebar entries, and zh-Hans
mirrors follow the directory renames. Also updates the install path
official/creative/audiocraft -> official/creative/audiocraft-audio-generation
in the songwriting-and-ai-music pointer section.
Every SKILL.md description over 60 chars was silently truncated to
57 chars + '...' in the system-prompt skill index
(extract_skill_description, agent/skill_utils.py), destroying the
routing signal for 69 of 179 skills — some descriptions ran to
1,005 chars.
Rewrites follow the authoring standard: <=60 chars, one sentence,
ends with a period, trigger front-loaded, no marketing words, no
skill-name repetition. Excess detail already lives in each skill's
body.
Includes the touchdesigner-mcp trim from PR #32361 (credit:
@JeliTron) and aligns with the router-precision direction of PR
#48780 (@John-Lussier). Docs catalogs + per-skill pages regenerated
via website/scripts/generate-skill-docs.py.
Co-authored-by: JeliTron <287797501+JeliTron@users.noreply.github.com>
The yuanbao skill is platform-specific guidance for Tencent Yuanbao
group chats — niche for the default bundled set. Per the
'when in doubt, optional' rule, ship it as an optional skill.
Install via: hermes skills install official/yuanbao/yuanbao
Per the 'when in doubt, optional' rule — zero-shot image segmentation
via SAM is a niche computer-vision capability with heavy deps
(torch, transformers), not something most users load.
Install via: hermes skills install official/mlops/segment-anything
Both are heavy-dep, GPU-bound local music-generation skills (8-16GB VRAM,
torch stacks, manual source patches) that were bundled in two different
categories (media/ and mlops/models/). Per the 'when in doubt, optional'
rule they now sit side by side in optional-skills/creative/, and the
bundled songwriting-and-ai-music skill points at them for local generation.
- git mv skills/media/heartmula -> optional-skills/creative/heartmula
- git mv skills/mlops/models/audiocraft -> optional-skills/creative/audiocraft
- cross-link related_skills both ways + songwriting-and-ai-music
- new section 10 in songwriting-and-ai-music with install commands
- docs: bundled pages -> optional pages (en + zh-Hans), catalogs, sidebar
Install via:
hermes skills install official/creative/heartmula
hermes skills install official/creative/audiocraft
Per the 'when in doubt, optional' rule — the live-kernel workflow needs
uv + JupyterLab + a running server + a cloned hamelnb repo, a niche
setup that shouldn't ship active by default.
Renamed jupyter-live-kernel -> jupyter-notebook (skill name, page slugs,
catalogs, sidebar, zh-Hans mirror, darwinian-evolver related_skills).
Install via: hermes skills install official/data-science/jupyter-notebook
The optional blender-mcp skill predates the blender MCP catalog entry
(#64463) and taught the agent to hand-roll raw TCP JSON to the addon's
socket on port 9876 from execute_code — bypassing the catalog's version
pinning and install-time tool curation.
Reworked to v2.0.0 as the companion skill for the catalog entry:
- prerequisites now go through 'hermes mcp install blender'
- interaction surface is the four curated MCP tools, not a raw socket
- keeps the valuable content: addon setup, bpy recipes (materials,
keyframes, render-to-file), pitfalls (timeouts, absolute paths,
object mode), plus new pitfalls (xvfb headless, no-sandbox warning,
remote-host path resolution)
- explicit anti-pattern note: do not hand-roll TCP to 9876
- description shortened to <=60 chars per skill authoring standards
alireza78a's original bpy patterns and pitfalls are preserved and
credited. Docs page regenerated via generate-skill-docs.py (scoped to
this skill only; unrelated generator drift left untouched).
* feat(skills): add html-artifact skill, fold in sketch + architecture-diagram + concept-diagrams
Adds a unified `html-artifact` creative skill that produces self-contained,
single-file HTML artifacts — concept explainers, implementation plans,
status/incident reports, code-review walkthroughs, technical + educational
SVG diagrams, multi-variant design comparisons, and throwaway editors that
export their state back to the clipboard. Grounded in Anthropic's
html-effectiveness gallery (MIT); the house style (token block, serif/sans/
mono split, hand-rolled diffs, inline-SVG diagrams, graceful degradation) is
distilled from reading all 20 reference files.
Supersedes and removes three overlapping skills, folding their unique value in:
- sketch -> the fidelity dial (throwaway vs presentation) + the
multi-variant comparison layouts + the browser-vision
verify loop (references/fidelity-and-verify.md)
- architecture-diagram-> the dark "infra" token variant + double-rect masking +
semantic component palette (references/dark-tech.md,
templates/diagram.html infra mode)
- concept-diagrams -> the 9-ramp educational color system + the concept
archetype library (references/concept-archetypes.md,
the light design system in templates/diagram.html)
Structure:
- SKILL.md (description exactly 60 chars), 6 references, 3 templates
- templates verified by headless-Chrome render + vision inspection
- editor export logic (file://-safe clipboard, Promise-normalized) verified in node
Cross-references updated in claude-design (new disambiguation table row drawing
the design-taste vs information-artifact boundary), design-md, pretext, spike,
and kanban-video-orchestrator. Website skill docs + catalogs regenerated;
stale EN/zh-Hans per-skill pages pruned and i18n cross-refs fixed.
Not folded (intentionally orthogonal): excalidraw (.excalidraw JSON), p5js
(generative canvas), claude-design / popular-web-designs / design-md (visual
design taste / brand vocab / token spec).
* feat(skills): ship html-effectiveness gallery as fetched reference examples
Add scripts/fetch-examples.sh (idempotent clone/pull of Anthropic's MIT
html-effectiveness gallery) + references/examples.md mapping each of the 20
example files to a mode so the agent reads the right worked example. The clone
lands in references/examples/ and is gitignored (it's a 384KB upstream repo,
not vendored). SKILL.md workflow + reference list now point at it; falls back to
the distilled pattern references when offline.
* feat(skills): make reading a gallery example a required authoring step
Reading the matching html-effectiveness example is now workflow step 2 (was an
optional aside in step 3): fetch the gallery, read_file the file for your mode,
mirror its structure. Models skip optional steps; the examples are the ground
truth, so consulting one is mandatory. Added an 'Example' column to the
mode->build quick-reference table and a 'don't skip the example' pitfall.
Also dogfooded the skill: read 03-code-review-pr.html and 13-flowchart-diagram.html
raw and reconciled the distilled references against source — aligned diff-row tint
opacity to the source's 0.15 (was 0.18) and added the .ctx/.hunk rows in
house-style.md + base.html so they match 03-code-review-pr.html verbatim.
* docs(skills): explain the consolidation + bundled-vs-optional rationale
The supersession note only stated *what* was folded, not *why* the prune is
sound. Expand SKILL.md's intro into a 'Why this skill exists' section: the three
former skills emitted the same artifact and overlapped, so consolidating removes
which-one-do-I-load ambiguity; and the optional->bundled promotion of
concept-diagrams is footprint-safe because this skill has zero deps (only cost is
the 60-char description; everything else is progressive-disclosure). States the
bundling dividing line explicitly: zero install cost + broadly useful gets
bundled, real install cost (hyperframes: Node+FFmpeg+Chromium) stays optional.
Regenerated website per-skill page to match.
* feat(skills): add optional payments skills (Stripe Link, MPP, Projects)
Adds four optional skills under optional-skills/payments/ wrapping the
Stripe Link CLI, the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) clients, and the
Stripe Projects CLI plugin. Plus a router skill (payments) that picks
between them based on user intent.
All four are gated [linux, macos] — Stripe's Link CLI does not yet
support Windows. The other CLIs (mppx, stripe projects) are
cross-platform on paper but the payments cluster moves as a unit until
Link CLI gains Windows support.
Skills:
- stripe-link-cli - one-time virtual cards + Shared Payment Tokens
- mpp-agent - HTTP 402 payments via mppx/Tempo/Privy/AgentCash
- stripe-projects - provision SaaS services + credential sync
- payments - router/index skill for the cluster
Hard invariants encoded in every skill:
- Card PANs/wallet keys never enter agent transcripts, logs, or memory
- Spend approvals are not self-bypassable (Link app / wallet UI / CLI prompt)
- Final totals confirmed with user before any --request-approval call
- Credential output files cleaned up after one-time use
Zero core touches. Skills install via:
hermes skills install official/payments/<skill>
* chore(skills/payments): drop router skill — skills shouldn't depend on other skills
Removed optional-skills/payments/payments/ — the router skill that
existed to hand off between stripe-link-cli, mpp-agent, and
stripe-projects.
Per project convention: skills should be independently loadable; a
router is a footgun because (a) it assumes the loader will follow its
recommendation rather than just loading what the user asked for, and
(b) it duplicates the trigger logic that already lives in each
sub-skill's '## When to Use' section.
The three remaining skills declare their own triggers and routing
hints. The optional-skills catalog still groups them under '## payments',
which is the appropriate place for cluster-level discoverability.
Also drops 'payments' from each remaining skill's 'related_skills' list
and removes the corresponding entries from the docs catalog + sidebars.
* feat(skills/payments): fold in danhill-stripe review feedback
- mpp-agent: add link-cli as a client option (when Link is already set
up, or the 402 challenge advertises method="stripe")
- stripe-link-cli: reframe Link account / payment method / approval app
as first-run setup, not hard preconditions (CLI configures them on
first run)
- regenerate the two affected optional-skills docs pages
* chore(skills): remove red-team skills (godmode, obliteratus) from bundled catalog
Anthropic's output classifier on claude-fable-5 (and likely other Claude
models served through it) intermittently returns empty content for sessions
whose system prompt advertises these skills. The bundled skills-catalog block
is injected into every session's system prompt, so the descriptions
- red-teaming/godmode 'Jailbreak LLMs: Parseltongue, GODMODE, ULTRAPLINIAN'
- mlops/inference/obliteratus 'OBLITERATUS: abliterate LLM refusals (diff-in-means)'
trip the classifier on EVERY session regardless of which skill is actually
loaded, killing unrelated legitimate work (PR review, codebase audits, etc.).
Measured impact (controlled, interleaved A/B, claude-fable-5 via OpenRouter,
prompts differing only by the ~204 chars of these catalog lines, N=20 each):
catalog lines present -> 19/20 (95%) blocked
catalog lines absent -> 5/20 (25%) blocked
Removing them ~quartered the block rate. Rewording the descriptions was not
enough; the skills must leave the bundled catalog.
- Delete skills/red-teaming/godmode and skills/mlops/inference/obliteratus
- Drop their generated doc pages + catalog/sidebar entries (EN + zh-Hans)
- Drop the godmode hand-written-page exception in generate-skill-docs.py
* chore(skills): relocate godmode + obliteratus to optional-skills
Rather than deleting outright, move both into optional-skills/ so they remain
installable via `hermes skills install` while leaving the always-injected
bundled catalog (which is what tripped Anthropic's classifier).
- optional-skills/security/godmode (was skills/red-teaming/godmode)
- optional-skills/mlops/obliteratus (was skills/mlops/inference/obliteratus)
- regenerate optional-skills catalog + sidebar entries
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