New Skills - August 11, 2026¶
Source: skills.sh via npx skills search
Date: August 11, 2026
Total new this batch: 5 skills (3 genuinely new + 2 from Aug 10 sweep without guides)
Routine daily sweep of the skills.sh marketplace. After cross-referencing against the existing 366+ documented skills in hermes/skills/catalog/, 5 skills were identified as needing setup guides - 3 are genuinely new discoveries not covered by previous sweeps, and 2 were identified in the Aug 10 sweep but hadn't received setup guides yet.
🆕 Genuinely New Skills (3) - First Documentation¶
| # | Skill | Installs | Source | Setup Guide |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | songwriting-and-ai-music |
324 | nousresearch/hermes-agent | songwriting-and-ai-music-setup.md ✍️ |
| 2 | debugging-hermes-tui-commands |
76 | nousresearch/hermes-agent | debugging-hermes-tui-commands-setup.md ✍️ |
| 3 | hermes-attestation-guardian |
94 | prompt-security/clawsec | hermes-attestation-guardian-setup.md ✍️ |
📝 Previously Identified - Now With Setup Guides (2)¶
| # | Skill | Installs | Source | Setup Guide |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | research-paper-writing |
396 | nousresearch/hermes-agent | research-paper-writing-setup.md ✍️ |
| 5 | plan |
309 | nousresearch/hermes-agent | plan-mode-setup.md ✍️ |
Skill Details¶
1. songwriting-and-ai-music (324 installs)¶
Official Hermes Agent creative skill for AI-assisted songwriting. Provides song structure templates (ABABCB, AABA, ABAB, AAA), lyrical composition guidelines, and integration hooks for AI music generation tools like Suno and Udio. Art-forward philosophy: guidelines, not rules.
2. debugging-hermes-tui-commands (76 installs)¶
Essential developer tool for diagnosing TUI slash command issues across Hermes' three-layer architecture (Python registry → JSON-RPC gateway → Ink/TypeScript frontend). Covers autocomplete debugging, layer desync detection, and new command registration walkthrough.
3. hermes-attestation-guardian (94 installs)¶
Security verification skill from prompt-security/clawsec. Performs release artifact verification, checksum validation against ClawSec release keys, SBOM inspection, runtime attestation, and trust chain verification for Hermes infrastructure components.
4. research-paper-writing (396 installs)¶
End-to-end ML/AI research paper pipeline targeting NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, AAAI, and COLM. Covers experiment design, execution, monitoring, analysis, paper writing, review response, and camera-ready submission. Originally from master-cai/research-paper-writing-skills.
5. plan (309 installs)¶
Plan Mode switches Hermes into planning-only execution. Generates structured markdown plans saved to .hermes/plans/ but does NOT implement code, run mutating commands, or perform external actions. Ideal for architecture reviews and stakeholder alignment.
Installation¶
# Songwriting & AI Music
npx skills add nousresearch/hermes-agent --skill songwriting-and-ai-music
# Debugging TUI Commands
npx skills add nousresearch/hermes-agent --skill debugging-hermes-tui-commands
# Attestation Guardian
npx skills add prompt-security/clawsec --skill hermes-attestation-guardian -a hermes-agent -y
# Research Paper Writing
npx skills add nousresearch/hermes-agent --skill research-paper-writing
# Plan Mode
npx skills add nousresearch/hermes-agent --skill plan
Notable¶
- songwriting-and-ai-music is the first creative/music skill documented in the catalog - expanding Hermes beyond development and productivity into artistic workflows.
- debugging-hermes-tui-commands fills a critical developer experience gap - the three-layer TUI architecture has been a common source of confusion.
- hermes-attestation-guardian brings production-grade security verification to the ecosystem - essential for enterprise Hermes deployments.
- research-paper-writing at 396 installs is the highest-install academic skill documented, reflecting Hermes' growing adoption in ML research.
- plan mode introduces a formal planning-only execution mode - useful for architecture reviews, stakeholder sign-offs, and safe exploration.
Existing Skills Verified (not new)¶
All top-20 skills from npx skills search hermes were verified as already cataloged (dogfood 5.4K, hermes-imports 4.5K, hermes-history-ingest 2.1K, hermes-tweet 682, hermes-agent 561, popular-web-designs 561, yuanbao 561, powerpoint 472, google-workspace 427, arxiv 422, claude-design 387, llm-wiki 370, jupyter-live-kernel 356, excalidraw 343, ascii-art 341, youtube-content 336, imessage 331, design-md 330, architecture-diagram 320, hermes-agent-skill-authoring 276).
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