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.
Two Windows agent-loop friction fixes:
1. tools/mcp_tool.py (#56536): shutil.which(cmd, path=env_path) reads
executable extensions from the PARENT process PATHEXT, not the MCP
subprocess env — a stdio MCP config supplying both PATH and PATHEXT
could fail to resolve a command its own env can locate, and startup
then got a bare command name. On Windows, when the first which() call
misses and the config env carries PATHEXT (any key casing), retry the
resolution with the config's PATHEXT temporarily applied.
2. skills/ + optional-skills/ (#50606): 42 SKILL.md files that declare
platforms: [.., windows] used python3 in their command examples.
python3 does not exist on native Windows (the toolchain probe in the
system prompt reports python3=missing), so every copy-pasted example
burned a failed agent turn before self-correction. Replaced the
command word python3 -> python (python3-config / python3.x version
strings untouched). python is the spelling that exists in every
Hermes-managed environment (Windows native, uv-managed venvs on all
three OSes); agents on POSIX hosts additionally see the probed
toolchain line and adapt either way.
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.
Fleet audit showed these task skills are commonly needed across users;
shipping bundled per Teknium's direction. Docs and tests follow the
bundled paths.
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>
Rewrites the Shop personal-shopping-assistant skill to use the
@shopify/shop-cli (with a full direct-API fallback in references/),
replacing the previous curl-only shop-app skill.
- Rename optional-skills/productivity/shop-app -> shop
- Add references/: catalog-mcp.md, direct-api.md, safety.md, legal.md
- Catalog discovery via Shopify Global Catalog MCP (search / lookup /
get-product), device-authorization sign-in, UCP agent checkout with
delegated spending budget, and order tracking / returns / reorder
- One-product-per-message presentation rules + per-channel overrides
- Expanded security, safety, and legal guidance
Website docs are auto-generated from SKILL.md by CI
(website/scripts/generate-skill-docs.py), so no docs are hand-edited here.
Follow-up to the GitHub-skills fix: the same hardcoded ~/.hermes/.env
pattern existed across other bundled and optional skills. Under the
official Docker setup (HERMES_HOME=/opt/data, subprocess HOME=/opt/data/home)
those paths point at a nonexistent file.
- kanban-video-orchestrator setup.sh.tmpl + docs: resolve via
${HERMES_HOME:-$HOME/.hermes}/.env in check_key()
- telephony.py / canvas_api.py / hyperliquid_client.py: error and
save messages now report the real resolved env path instead of a
hardcoded literal (path resolution itself was already correct)
- godmode SKILL.md: load_dotenv snippet resolves via HERMES_HOME
- watch_github.py + ~20 SKILL.md prose mentions: document the env file
as ${HERMES_HOME:-~/.hermes}/.env so Docker users edit the right file
Six days after #23937 (608 fixes) the codebase had accumulated 241 new
PLR6201 violations. Same mechanical `x in (...)` → `x in {...}` fix,
same zero-risk profile: set lookup is O(1) vs O(n) for tuple and the
two are semantically equivalent for hashable scalar membership tests.
All 241 instances fixed via `ruff check --select PLR6201 --fix
--unsafe-fixes`, zero remaining. Every changed value is a hashable
scalar (str/int/None/enum/signal); no risk of unhashable runtime
errors. No behavior change.
Test plan:
- 119 files changed, +244/-244 (net zero) — exactly one-line edits
- `ruff check` clean afterward
- Compile checks pass on the largest touched files (cli.py, run_agent.py,
gateway/run.py, gateway/platforms/discord.py, model_tools.py)
- Subset broad test run on tests/gateway/ tests/hermes_cli/ tests/agent/
tests/tools/: 18187 passed, 59 pre-existing failures (verified against
origin/main with the same shape — identical failure count, identical
category — all xdist test-order flakes unrelated to this change)
Follows the same template as PR #23937 ([tracker: #23972](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/issues/23972)).
Extends the Windows-gating work to the optional-skills/ tree. Every
SKILL.md that previously omitted the platforms: field now carries an
explicit declaration, which Hermes's loader (agent.skill_utils.
skill_matches_platform) honors to skip-load on incompatible OSes.
58 skills declared cross-platform (platforms: [linux, macos, windows]):
autonomous-ai-agents/blackbox, autonomous-ai-agents/honcho
blockchain/base, blockchain/solana
communication/one-three-one-rule
creative/blender-mcp, creative/concept-diagrams, creative/hyperframes,
creative/kanban-video-orchestrator, creative/meme-generation
devops/cli (inference-sh-cli), devops/docker-management
dogfood/adversarial-ux-test
email/agentmail
finance/3-statement-model, finance/comps-analysis, finance/dcf-model,
finance/excel-author, finance/lbo-model, finance/merger-model,
finance/pptx-author
health/fitness-nutrition, health/neuroskill-bci
mcp/fastmcp, mcp/mcporter
migration/openclaw-migration
mlops/accelerate, mlops/chroma, mlops/clip, mlops/guidance,
mlops/hermes-atropos-environments, mlops/huggingface-tokenizers,
mlops/instructor, mlops/lambda-labs, mlops/llava, mlops/modal,
mlops/peft, mlops/pinecone, mlops/pytorch-lightning, mlops/qdrant,
mlops/saelens, mlops/simpo, mlops/stable-diffusion
productivity/canvas, productivity/shop-app, productivity/shopify,
productivity/siyuan, productivity/telephony
research/domain-intel, research/drug-discovery, research/duckduckgo-search,
research/gitnexus-explorer, research/parallel-cli, research/scrapling
security/1password, security/oss-forensics, security/sherlock
web-development/page-agent
5 skills gated from Windows (platforms: [linux, macos]):
mlops/flash-attention - Flash Attention wheels are Linux-first; Windows
install requires building from source with CUDA
mlops/faiss - faiss-gpu has no Windows wheel; gate rather than
leak partial (faiss-cpu) support
mlops/nemo-curator - NVIDIA NeMo ecosystem has no first-class Windows path
mlops/slime - Megatron+SGLang RL stack is Linux-only in practice
mlops/whisper - openai-whisper + ffmpeg setup on Windows is
non-trivial; gate until Windows install stanza lands
Methodology: scanned every SKILL.md for Windows-hostile signals
(apt-get, brew, systemd, osascript, ptrace, X11 binaries, POSIX-only
Python APIs, Docker POSIX $(pwd) bind-mounts, explicit 'linux-only' /
'macos-only' text). 3 skills flagged as having hard signals on review:
docker-management and qdrant only had POSIX $(pwd) docker examples and
the tools themselves (Docker Desktop, Qdrant) run fine on Windows —
declared ALL. whisper had an apt/brew ffmpeg install path and nothing
else but the openai-whisper Windows install story is rough enough to
warrant gating.
Strict-over-lenient policy: when in doubt, gate. Easier to un-gate after
verified Windows support lands than to leak partial support that
manifests as mid-task failures for Windows users.
Port Shop.app's upstream SKILL.md (https://shop.app/SKILL.md) into
optional-skills/productivity/shop-app/ with Hermes-native adaptations:
- Proper Hermes frontmatter (name, description<=60 chars, version,
author, license, prerequisites, metadata.hermes tags + related_skills
+ homepage + upstream)
- Swap Shop.app's bespoke 'message()' tool references for Hermes
conventions: gateway adapters handle platform formatting, so the
skill just writes markdown (no Telegram/WhatsApp/iMessage sections
referencing a tool Hermes doesn't ship)
- Name Hermes tools where relevant: curl via 'terminal', HTML policy
pages via 'web_extract', try-on via 'image_generate'
- Reframe session state as 'hold in your reasoning context for this
conversation only' and forbid writing tokens to .env / disk — matches
Hermes ephemeral-memory discipline
- Drop NO_REPLY convention (Shop-app-runtime specific)
- Trigger-first description so the skill loader picks it up when the
user wants to search products, track orders, returns, or reorder
Moves the here-now skill under optional-skills/productivity/here-now/ so
it's discoverable via the Skills Hub but not installed by default, and
tightens the SKILL.md description to a single line to match sibling
optional-skill descriptions.
Install with:
hermes skills install official/productivity/here-now
Closes#378
Adds optional-skills/productivity/shopify — curl-based guide for the
Shopify Admin GraphQL API (products, orders, customers, inventory,
metafields, bulk operations, webhooks) and the Storefront GraphQL API.
- API version 2026-01 (current stable)
- Custom-app access tokens (shpat_...) with X-Shopify-Access-Token header
- Notes the 2026-01-01 deprecation of admin-created custom apps, points
users at Dev Dashboard for new setups after that date
- Includes a reusable shop_gql() bash helper, cursor pagination,
rate-limit cost inspection, GID conventions, userErrors check
- Safety section warns on destructive mutations (delete/refund/cancel)
Installs cleanly via: hermes skills install official/productivity/shopify
find-nearby and the (new) maps optional skill both used OpenStreetMap's
Overpass + Nominatim to answer the same question — 'what's near this
location?' — so shipping both would be duplicate code for overlapping
capability. Consolidate into one active-by-default skill at
skills/productivity/maps/ that is a strict superset of find-nearby.
Moves + deletions:
- optional-skills/productivity/maps/ → skills/productivity/maps/ (active,
no install step needed)
- skills/leisure/find-nearby/ → DELETED (fully superseded)
Upgrades to maps_client.py so it covers everything find-nearby did:
- Overpass server failover — tries overpass-api.de then
overpass.kumi.systems so a single-mirror outage doesn't break the skill
(new overpass_query helper, used by both nearby and bbox)
- nearby now accepts --near "<address>" as a shortcut that auto-geocodes,
so one command replaces the old 'search → copy coords → nearby' chain
- nearby now accepts --category (repeatable) for multi-type queries in
one call (e.g. --category restaurant --category bar), results merged
and deduped by (osm_type, osm_id), sorted by distance, capped at --limit
- Each nearby result now includes maps_url (clickable Google Maps search
link) and directions_url (Google Maps directions from the search point
— only when a ref point is known)
- Promoted commonly-useful OSM tags to top-level fields on each result:
cuisine, hours (opening_hours), phone, website — instead of forcing
callers to dig into the raw tags dict
SKILL.md:
- Version bumped 1.1.0 → 1.2.0, description rewritten to lead with
capability surface
- New 'Working With Telegram Location Pins' section replacing
find-nearby's equivalent workflow
- metadata.hermes.supersedes: [find-nearby] so tooling can flag any
lingering references to the old skill
External references updated:
- optional-skills/productivity/telephony/SKILL.md — related_skills
find-nearby → maps
- website/docs/reference/skills-catalog.md — removed the (now-empty)
'leisure' section, added 'maps' row under productivity
- website/docs/user-guide/features/cron.md — find-nearby example
usages swapped to maps
- tests/tools/test_cronjob_tools.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_cron.py,
tests/cron/test_scheduler.py — fixture string values swapped
- cli.py:5290 — /cron help-hint example swapped
Not touched:
- RELEASE_v0.2.0.md — historical record, left intact
E2E-verified live (Nominatim + Overpass, one query each):
- nearby --near "Times Square" --category restaurant --category bar → 3 results,
sorted by distance, all with maps_url, directions_url, cuisine, phone, website
where OSM had the tags
All 111 targeted tests pass across tests/cron/, tests/tools/, tests/hermes_cli/.
Adds a maps optional skill with 8 commands, 44 POI categories, and
zero external dependencies. Uses free open data: Nominatim, Overpass
API, OSRM, and TimeAPI.io.
Commands: search, reverse, nearby, distance, directions, timezone,
area, bbox.
Improvements over original PR #2015:
- Fixed directory structure (optional-skills/productivity/maps/)
- Fixed distance argparse (--to flag instead of broken dual nargs=+)
- Fixed timezone (TimeAPI.io instead of broken worldtimeapi heuristic)
- Expanded POI categories from 12 to 44
- Added directions command with turn-by-turn OSRM steps
- Added area command (bounding box + dimensions for a named place)
- Added bbox command (POI search within a geographic rectangle)
- Added 23 unit tests
- Improved haversine (atan2 for numerical stability)
- Comprehensive SKILL.md with workflow examples
Co-authored-by: Mibayy <Mibayy@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(skills): add memento-flashcards skill
* docs(skills): clarify memento-flashcards interaction model
* fix: use HERMES_HOME env var for profile-safe data path
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Co-authored-by: Magnus Ahmad <magnus.ahmad@gmail.com>
Adds a Canvas LMS integration skill under optional-skills/productivity/canvas/
with a Python CLI wrapper (canvas_api.py) for listing courses and assignments
via personal access token auth.
Cherry-picked from PR #1250 by Alicorn-Max-S with:
- Moved from skills/ to optional-skills/ (niche educational integration)
- Fixed hardcoded ~/.hermes/ path to use $HERMES_HOME
- Removed Canvas env vars from .env.example (optional skill)
- Cleaned stale 'mini-swe-agent backend' reference from .env.example header
Co-authored-by: Alicorn-Max-S <Alicorn-Max-S@users.noreply.github.com>
Add two new optional skills:
- siyuan (optional-skills/productivity/): SiYuan Note knowledge base
API skill — search, read, create, and manage blocks/documents in a
self-hosted SiYuan instance via curl. Requires SIYUAN_TOKEN.
- scrapling (optional-skills/research/): Intelligent web scraping skill
using the Scrapling library — anti-bot fetching, Cloudflare bypass,
CSS/XPath selectors, spider framework for multi-page crawling.
Placed in optional-skills/ (not bundled) since both are niche tools
that require external dependencies.
Co-authored-by: FEUAZUR <FEUAZUR@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat: improve context compaction handoff summaries
Adapt PR #916 onto current main by replacing the old context summary marker
with a clearer handoff wrapper, updating the summarization prompt for
resume-oriented summaries, and preserving the current call_llm-based
compression path.
* fix: clearer error when docker backend is unavailable
* fix: preserve docker discovery in backend preflight
Follow up on salvaged PR #940 by reusing find_docker() during the new
availability check so non-PATH Docker Desktop installs still work. Add
a regression test covering the resolved executable path.
* test: make gateway async tests xdist-safe
Replace sync test usage of asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete()
with asyncio.run() so tests do not depend on an ambient current event loop.
Also create the email disconnect poll task inside a running loop. This fixes
xdist/CI failures where workers have no current loop in MainThread.
* feat(skills): add phone-calls skill for outbound AI voice calls
Reformulated from core tool (PR #847 feedback) into a skill with a
standalone helper script. No new dependencies — uses only Python stdlib.
Two providers supported:
- Bland.ai (default): simple setup, one API key
- Vapi: flexible, better voice quality via ElevenLabs/Deepgram + Twilio
Includes:
- SKILL.md with full procedure, safety rules, provider docs, pitfalls
- scripts/phone_call.py CLI helper (call, status, diagnose commands)
* feat(skills): expand phone-calls into optional telephony skill
Follow up on salvaged PR #965 by moving the capability into optional-skills
and broadening it from outbound AI calling to a full telephony skill. Add
Twilio number provisioning, env/state persistence, SMS/MMS, inbound SMS
polling, Vapi import helpers, and a provider decision tree while keeping
telephony out of core runtime code.
* docs(skills): clarify Hermes TTS telephony workflow
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Co-authored-by: aydnOktay <xaydinoktay@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: mormio <morganemoss@gmai.com>
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