# Hermes Agent for Claude Code: what it does and how to install it > nousresearch/hermes-agent is the skill library behind Nous Research's Hermes Agent, a self-improving assistant with persistent memory across conversations. Flowy's index counts 82 skills here, covering documents, design, coding, machine learning, notes, messaging, monitoring, and home automation. Reach for it to pull individual Hermes Agent skills into your own setup rather than running the full agent product. Canonical: https://www.flowy.sh/plugins/nousresearch-hermes-agent/guide Published: 2026-10-29 Updated: 2026-10-29 Author: Flowy ## What is Hermes Agent, and what does this plugin cover? `NousResearch/hermes-agent` is the skill library behind Hermes Agent, Nous Research's self-improving assistant that runs across chat platforms and keeps a persistent memory of past conversations for context across sessions. On Flowy, `hermes-agent` is filed under the agents category, and every one of its 82 indexed components is typed as a skill, with no separate commands, MCP servers, or hooks. Flowy indexes the public repository; it doesn't own, bundle, or host any of it, and the repo carries 236,000-plus GitHub stars. Install it from [the install card on the listing page](https://www.flowy.sh/listings/nousresearch-hermes-agent#install), not a command copied from an article. ## What's here for documents, design, and generative media? The largest share of the 82 skills is about making things. `pdf`, `nano-pdf`, `docx`, `powerpoint`, `xlsx`, and `ocr-and-documents` cover PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files plus OCR on scans. On design, `claude-design`, `sketch`, `architecture-diagram`, and `excalidraw` build HTML artifacts, throwaway mockups, SVG diagrams, and hand-drawn diagram JSON; `design-md` authors Google's DESIGN.md token-spec files; and `popular-web-designs` supplies real design systems (Stripe, Linear) as HTML and CSS. The rest is playful: `baoyu-infographic`, `p5js`, `pretext`, `ascii-art`, `ascii-video`, and `gif-search` cover infographics, generative art, text demos, ASCII conversion, and GIF search, while `comfyui`, `manim-video`, `songwriting-and-ai-music`, `songsee`, and `touchdesigner-mcp` handle diffusion workflows, math animation, songwriting, audio analysis, and TouchDesigner control. ## What's here for coding, machine learning, and research? Software work gets the biggest cluster. Six GitHub skills cover auth (`github-auth`), cloning and forking (`github-repo-management`), issue triage (`github-issues`), the PR lifecycle (`github-pr-workflow`), inline PR review (`github-code-review`), and carrying an issue to a verified PR with an honest CI state (`github-issue-to-pr`). `requesting-code-review` runs a pre-commit security scan with auto-fix, `simplify-code` is a parallel four-agent cleanup, and `systematic-debugging` is a four-phase process for understanding a bug first. `test-driven-development` enforces red-green-refactor order, `python-debugpy` and `node-inspect-debugger` attach a debugger to Python and Node, `codebase-inspection` sizes up a codebase by language and line count, `merge-reconciler` resolves agent merge conflicts, and `hermes-agent-skill-authoring` writes the plugin's own SKILL.md files. `claude-code`, `codex`, and `opencode` delegate coding work to Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and OpenCode. On the model side, `llama-cpp` runs local GGUF inference and finds models on the Hugging Face Hub, `serving-llms-vllm` covers high-throughput serving through vLLM, and `evaluating-llms-harness` benchmarks a model across suites like MMLU and GSM8K. `huggingface-hub` wraps the hf CLI for models and datasets, and `weights-and-biases` logs experiments and dashboards to W&B. `arxiv` searches papers by keyword, author, category, or ID, `research-paper-writing` carries a paper to submission for venues like NeurIPS and ICML, and `llm-wiki` builds a markdown knowledge base modeled on Karpathy's LLM Wiki. ## Which Hermes Agent components cover notes, planning, messaging, and monitoring? `notion` and `obsidian` read, search, and edit Notion pages and an Obsidian vault; `apple-notes`, `apple-reminders`, `airtable`, and `box` wrap their namesake apps. `session-librarian` finds, renames, archives, and prunes sessions by prompt, and `plan` writes a markdown plan without executing anything. `weekly-review-planning` runs a weekly reset across commitments and stalled work; `meeting-action-items` and `document-to-action-items` turn meetings or documents into cited decisions and deadlines; and `teams-meeting-pipeline` handles Microsoft Teams summaries and Graph subscriptions. `himalaya` handles email over IMAP and SMTP, `email-inbox-triage` prioritizes threads and drafts replies, `imessage` covers iMessage and SMS on macOS, and `xurl` posts and sends DMs on X. `google-workspace` is a setup note on Google OAuth2 credentials rather than a feature list, the connector behind the other Google-facing skills. A monitoring group covers `competitor-news-monitor` for named-company news, `blogwatcher` for blogs and RSS or Atom feeds, and `product-price-monitor` for price alerts. `grounded-citations` grounds answers in cited sources, `blocked-page-recovery` recovers pages blocked by a paywall or firewall, and `youtube-content` turns a transcript into summaries or blog posts. `humanizer` strips AI-sounding phrasing out of text, and a small home set covers `openhue` for Philips Hue lights, `findmy` for Apple devices and AirTags, and `maps` for geocoding and routes from OpenStreetMap and OSRM. ## Which skills target Hermes Agent itself, and should you install all 82? A handful of skills are about the product this repository is named for. `hermes-agent` is the skill for using, configuring, theming, and extending Hermes Agent, and `inspecting-hermes-desktop-dom` reads the live Hermes desktop DOM and CSS over CDP. `computer-use` drives the desktop in the background without stealing focus, `dogfood` runs exploratory QA on web apps, `sdlc-review` reviews Kanban handoffs and routes verified outcomes, and `spike` runs a throwaway experiment before a full build. Nothing in Flowy's index sorts the 82 skills into a starter set, so treat each family above as a menu: pull the document, design, or GitHub skills for daily work, and add the rest only if you need them. Flowy indexes the plugin as published, not maintained, so check [the install card on the listing page](https://www.flowy.sh/listings/nousresearch-hermes-agent#install) for the current count and install path. Sources: [NousResearch/hermes-agent on GitHub](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent), [NousResearch/hermes-agent README](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent#readme) ## Common questions ### What is NousResearch's hermes-agent plugin? It's the skill library behind Hermes Agent, an autonomous assistant from Nous Research that keeps a persistent memory of past conversations and runs across chat platforms. Flowy indexes 82 skills from the public repository, covering everything from PDF and Office file editing to GitHub workflows, machine learning tooling, and smart home control. ### How many skills does hermes-agent include? 82, and every one of them is typed as a skill in Flowy's index rather than an agent, command, or MCP server. They group loosely by purpose: documents and design, coding and code review, machine learning and research, notes and messaging, monitoring and home automation, and a few skills for Hermes Agent's own desktop app. ### Does installing this plugin give me the full Hermes Agent, memory included? No. This plugin is the skill library, and Flowy indexes it as a set of skills you can add to your own setup. The persistent memory and multi-platform gateway are part of Nous Research's separate Hermes Agent product, described in the repository itself rather than counted as one of the 82 indexed skills. ### Can I install only some of the 82 skills instead of all of them? Flowy's index for this plugin doesn't show a built-in sorting or starter-set skill, so the practical approach is to read the skill names and descriptions on the listing page and pick the family that matches your work, such as the document skills, the GitHub skills, or the machine-learning skills. ### Does Flowy host or maintain the hermes-agent plugin? No. Flowy indexes the public NousResearch/hermes-agent GitHub repository and links to it. The code, updates, and support live in that repository, so use the install path on the listing's install card (flowy.sh/listings/nousresearch-hermes-agent#install) rather than a copied command. ## Related - [The listing page](https://www.flowy.sh/listings/nousresearch-hermes-agent): Install command, components and repository - [Alternatives to this plugin](https://www.flowy.sh/alternatives/nousresearch-hermes-agent): Peers in its category, ranked by stars - [The Claude Code plugin marketplace](https://www.flowy.sh/marketplace/plugins): How plugins install, and every plugin in the index - [anthropics/claude-code for Claude Code: install and use](https://www.flowy.sh/plugins/anthropics-claude-code/guide): another plugin guide - [Cal.com for Claude Code: what it does and how to install it](https://www.flowy.sh/plugins/calcom-cal-com/guide): another plugin guide