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New Skills: June 19-20, 2026

Discovered: June 20, 2026 via GitHub API search + aradotso/hermes-skills commit tracking
New repos: 6 | New skills: 12


tensakulabs/hermes-ponytail (7 skills)

"Makes your agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room."

Ponytail repackaged for Hermes -- pure SKILL.md skills with no code, no tools, no env. Hermes loads them on demand: when a task looks over-engineered, the model pulls the skill into context and builds the simplest thing that works.

Skill What it does Install Command
ponytail Lazy senior dev mode. YAGNI, stdlib first, no unrequested abstractions. hermes skills install tensakulabs/hermes-ponytail/ponytail --yes
ponytail-review Review a diff for over-engineering. One line per thing to delete. hermes skills install tensakulabs/hermes-ponytail/ponytail-review --yes
ponytail-audit Audit the whole repo for over-engineering. Ranked list of what to cut. hermes skills install tensakulabs/hermes-ponytail/ponytail-audit --yes
ponytail-debt Harvest every ponytail: shortcut comment into one tracked debt ledger. hermes skills install tensakulabs/hermes-ponytail/ponytail-debt --yes
ponytail-gain Scoreboard of Ponytail's measured impact (less code, less cost, more speed). hermes skills install tensakulabs/hermes-ponytail/ponytail-gain --yes
ponytail-help Quick reference for modes and skills. hermes skills install tensakulabs/hermes-ponytail/ponytail-help --yes

Repo: tensakulabs/hermes-ponytail | Stars: 0 | Created: June 20, 2026
Credit: Behavior from DietrichGebert/ponytail (MIT)
Setup Guide: hermes-ponytail-setup.md


SoCalStreet/skill-vetting (1 skill)

Auto-vet external AI agent skills with NVIDIA SkillSpector before installation.

Scan-before-install enforcement, 64 vulnerability patterns, risk gating (auto-proceed/approval/refuse), marketplace catalog (5 marketplaces mapped), weekly re-audit cron, JSONL audit trail.

Skill What it does Install Command
skill-vetting Pre-install security scan + catalog + weekly re-audit hermes skills install https://github.com/SoCalStreet/skill-vetting/SKILL.md

Repo: SoCalStreet/skill-vetting | Stars: 0 | Created: June 19, 2026
Requires: NVIDIA SkillSpector, Python 3.12+
Setup Guide: skill-vetting-setup.md


mesutcelik/agentmint-skills (2 skills)

Route Hermes delegate_task to persistent AgentMint subagents that remember across calls.

Skill What it does Install Command
agentmint Universal AgentMint usage -- wallet matrix, JSON-RPC methods, persona format hermes skills install mesutcelik/agentmint-skills/agentmint
hermes-delegate-task Route delegate_task(background=True) to named, persistent AgentMint subagent hermes skills install mesutcelik/agentmint-skills/hermes-delegate-task

Repo: mesutcelik/agentmint-skills | Stars: 0 | Created: June 19, 2026
Related: mesutcelik/agentmint-hermes (Python adapter on PyPI)
Setup Guide: agentmint-skills-setup.md


darraappen2/herman-skill-playbook (8 skills in 1 playbook)

Execution skills by Herman (Hermes Agent) -- GitHub installs, plugin management, DB ops, GDrive uploads, data analysis, memory management.

# Skill Description
1 GitHub Install Install skill/plugin dari GitHub
2 Plugin Install Install platform adapter
3 Service Management Start/poll/kill background process
4 Database Ops DuckDB query, backup, import
5 API Config Setup provider/model via hermes CLI
6 Data Analysis Analisis divisi/bulan/dept/outlet pakai DuckDB
7 Memory Management Simpan/update/hapus fakta cross-session
8 Upload GDrive rclone copy/sync ke Google Drive

Repo: darraappen2/herman-skill-playbook | Stars: 0 | Created: June 19, 2026
Install: Copy herman-skill-playbook.md to ~/.hermes/ or load via skill_view(name='herman-skill-playbook')


New aradotso/hermes-skills Additions (3 skills)

Discovered via commit tracking on aradotso/hermes-skills (June 18, 2026):

Skill Description Source
openclaw-polymarket-trading-bot OpenClaw trading bot for Polymarket prediction markets Golrypavium/openclaw-polymarket-trading-bot (7 stars/day)
openclaw-videotranslate-skill Video translation skill for OpenClaw zbjincheng/openclaw-skill-videotranslate (0 stars)
hermes-agentmesh-async-bus Async message bus for Hermes agent mesh networking seleman66eeddwegger3-art/hermes-agentmesh (1 star/day)

Also Discovered (lower value)

These repos were found but not catalogued in detail -- low star counts, minimal content, or duplicate existing skills:

Repo Description Why skipped
Modichen/Hermesagent "Skill list2" README only, no actual skills
wilmerarredondozavala-jpg/odysseus-skills 20 exported Hermes skills Mostly duplicates of built-in Hermes skills (GitHub, Arxiv, Blogwatcher, etc.)
qq250113397-dotcom/skill-shell Chinese skill manager UI Desktop app, not Hermes skills
arshaka666/sad-nft-tools NFT minting tools Niche domain, not broadly applicable
AveryLemon/Hermes_V2 Skills, config, memory, cron export Personal config export, not a skill pack

Stats

  • Total new skills catalogued: 12 (ponytail × 6 + skill-vetting × 1 + agentmint × 2 + playbook × 1 + aradotso × 3)
  • New repos: 6 first-time discoveries
  • Setup guides drafted: 3 (ponytail, skill-vetting, agentmint-skills)

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