Custom Skills for Hermes Agent: Full Tutorial

Skills turn your Hermes agent from a generic chatbot into a domain expert — fetch live stock prices, query Kubernetes clusters, and even let the agent build its own skills by chatting. Try Qwen3.7 Max with limited time 50% off: https://int.alibabacloud.com/m/1000413227/ Subscribe to Alibaba Cloud Token Plan: https://int.alibabacloud.com/m/1000413236/ https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/developer-guide/creating-skills https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/ https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/skills In this video: – The 2-file structure every skill needs (SKILL.md + scripts/) – Building a custom stock price skill from scratch using Yahoo Finance – Installing pre-built skills from the Skills Hub in one CLI command – Why community skills get blocked by default (and the OpenAI-published Kubernetes skill that works around it) – Letting Hermes auto-generate a skill just by describing what you want Setup runs in one line. Configured here with Qwen 3 Max via Alibaba Cloud Model Studio — currently around half the price of comparable frontier models. Honest note: even if you plan to auto-generate skills, learning the manual structure first is worth it. When the agent writes a skill for you, you can actually verify it instead of trusting blindly. ⏱️ Timestamps 0:00 What skills do 0:33 Pre-built vs custom overview 1:03 Installing Hermes agent 2:42 Building the stock price skill 4:13 Running it in chat 5:07 Installing skills from the Skills Hub 5:32 Community skill security block + OpenAI's Kubernetes skill 7:03 Auto-creating a skill by chatting 8:14 SKILL.md anatomy and advanced options (assets, templates, docs) This video explains the skill system in the Hermes agent, detailing how to create and install custom "claude skills", such as a stock price skill. We also cover validating skills and the process of automatically generating skills through chat interactions, which is a great example of "ai automation". This shows the power of "artificial intelligence" in managing and expanding agent capabilities, making custom integrations with "ai agents" straightforward.