8 Hermes agent skills worth installing now from Nous Research's hub of hundreds
Teknium · x · 2026-09-12
Nous Research maintains a skills hub with hundreds of skills for the Hermes agent, but most users aren't running the right ones. After testing dozens, the author picked the eight most worth installing immediately, with install prompts included. Teknium amplifies the thread, arguing the agent itself is extremely powerful — the bottleneck is skills setup.
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