Nous Hermes Adopts NVIDIA's SkillEvaluator, Fixes 11 of Its Own Bundled Skills
max_paperclips · x · 2026-08-20
Nous Research says Hermes now runs NVIDIA's open-source SkillEvaluator on skill installs, checking for PII, leaked secrets, Unicode smuggling, and licensing/security issues before confirmation. They scanned their own bundled skills first and improved 11 of them based on the findings.
The quoted NVIDIA post adds context: benchmarking 300+ NVIDIA-verified skills with identical task, model, and setup, skills improved correctness by 41 points, effectiveness by 39, and efficiency by 35. SkillEvaluator is open source for testing your own skills before shipping.
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