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July 28, 2026 — Hermes Skills Sweep

6 new skills discovered — 34.4K+ combined installs. This sweep focuses on Hermes-specific and OpenClaw ecosystem skills from the skills.sh marketplace. Discovery via npx skills find across 18 search terms.

New Skills at a Glance

# Skill Source Installs Category Setup Guide
1 dogfood nousresearch/hermes-agent 4.9K QA / Testing ✅
2 skill-vetter useai-pro/openclaw-skills-security 20.6K Security ✅
3 openclaw-backup theagentservice/skills 3.1K Backup / DevOps ✅
4 hermes-imports affaan-m/everything-claude-code 2.7K Workflow / DevOps ✅
5 hermes-history-ingest ar9av/obsidian-wiki 2.1K Memory / Knowledge ✅
6 hermes-marketing-dashboard aradotso/marketing-skills 970 Marketing / Ops ✅

Category Breakdown

Hermes Official (nousresearch/hermes-agent)

Skill Installs Description
dogfood 4.9K Systematic exploratory QA testing of web apps using browser tools. 5-phase workflow: Plan → Explore → Interact → Edge Cases → Report. Produces structured bug reports with screenshots.

OpenClaw Ecosystem

Skill Source Installs Description
skill-vetter useai-pro/openclaw-skills-security 20.6K Security-first pre-install vetting for OpenClaw skills. Structured red-flag checklist for permissions, patterns, and suspicious instructions. 97% trust score.
openclaw-backup theagentservice/skills 3.1K Encrypted backup/restore for OpenClaw workspace files (SOUL.md, MEMORY.md, IDENTITY.md, AGENTS.md). AES-256-CBC via openssl + soul-upload.com API.

Community Hermes Skills

Skill Source Installs Description
hermes-imports affaan-m/everything-claude-code 2.7K Convert local Hermes workflows into sanitized ECC skills. Strips private paths, credentials, and account names. Release-pack artifact generation.
hermes-history-ingest ar9av/obsidian-wiki 2.1K Ingest Hermes agent history into Obsidian wiki. Mines past sessions for knowledge, extracts insights from conversations, imports ~/.hermes memories.
hermes-marketing-dashboard aradotso/marketing-skills 970 Open-source marketing ops control center for AI agent teams. CRM, outreach, content ops, analytics powered by OpenClaw + SQLite. Next.js application.

Setup Guides Created

  1. Dogfood Setup Guide — Systematic QA testing with browser tools. 5-phase workflow for finding bugs and producing structured reports.
  2. Skill Vetter Setup Guide — Pre-install security vetting for OpenClaw skills. Red-flag checklist for safe skill adoption.
  3. OpenClaw Backup Setup Guide — Encrypted workspace backup with AES-256-CBC. Auto-generated passwords, soul-upload.com API.
  4. Hermes Imports Setup Guide — Sanitize and export Hermes workflows as reusable ECC skills.
  5. Hermes History Ingest Setup Guide — Mine Hermes session history into Obsidian knowledge base.
  6. Hermes Marketing Dashboard Setup Guide — Full-stack marketing control center with CRM, outreach, and analytics.

Quick Install

# Official Hermes — QA testing
npx skills add nousresearch/hermes-agent@dogfood

# Security vetting for any skill install
npx skills add useai-pro/openclaw-skills-security@skill-vetter

# Encrypted workspace backup
npx skills add theagentservice/skills@openclaw-backup

# Sanitize and export Hermes workflows
npx skills add affaan-m/everything-claude-code@hermes-imports

# Mine Hermes history into Obsidian
npx skills add ar9av/obsidian-wiki@hermes-history-ingest

# Marketing dashboard for agent teams
npx skills add aradotso/marketing-skills@hermes-marketing-dashboard

Why This Matters for Hermes

These six skills fill critical gaps in the Hermes ecosystem. dogfood brings systematic QA testing — essential as Hermes agents increasingly drive production workflows. skill-vetter addresses the growing security surface area of the skills marketplace at 20.6K installs. openclaw-backup solves agent state persistence with encryption. The three community Hermes skills (hermes-imports, hermes-history-ingest, hermes-marketing-dashboard) demonstrate the maturing operator toolchain around Hermes — workflow export, knowledge mining, and marketing ops.