Skills guides

A practical guide to skills overview in a verified Hermes/Rocky workflow.

A practical guide to create a skill in a verified Hermes/Rocky workflow.

A practical guide to patch a skill in a verified Hermes/Rocky workflow.

A practical guide to skill curation in a verified Hermes/Rocky workflow.

How to turn repeated Rocky/Hermes work into reusable skills with triggers, steps, pitfalls, and verification checks.

How to recognize when a Rocky workflow should become a reusable Hermes skill with triggers, steps, pitfalls, and verification.

A lifecycle guide for keeping Hermes skills accurate: create after useful discoveries, patch after failures, and retire stale procedures safely.

Turn repeated Rocky workflows into reusable skills with triggers, commands, pitfalls, and verification rather than stale session notes.

Control skill-library growth with dry runs, inactivity states, pins, backups, rollback, optional consolidation, and auditable curator reports.

Group compatible skills behind one short command while preserving load order, trust review, and a clear verification contract.

Use /learn to distill repeatable knowledge from a directory, URL, completed workflow, or notes—then inspect and test the resulting skill before reuse.

Load known skills before the first turn so a Hermes session begins with the right workflow, commands, pitfalls, and verification rules already in context.

Create a minimal skill footprint or stop future bundled-skill seeding without deleting user-edited, hub-installed, or handwritten skills.

Evaluate, install, verify, and retain optional Hermes skills one capability at a time instead of activating a broad catalog blindly.