🏭 Skill Factory

The meta-skill that creates skills. Your AI watches your workflows and turns them into reusable Hermes skills — automatically.

Built for Nous Research's Hermes Agent (v2026.3+).

What It Does

Every time you solve a problem with Hermes, you're performing a workflow worth repeating. Skill Factory watches silently, detects patterns, and at the right moment asks:

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🏭 SKILL FACTORY — New Skill Detected
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I noticed you repeatedly set up a Python environment,
installed dependencies, and ran tests in the same order.

Proposed Skill:   python-env-setup
Category:         software-development
Description:      Reproducible Python project setup workflow

What it captures:
  1. Create venv and activate
  2. Upgrade pip and install dependencies
  3. Run pytest to verify environment

Generate: [A] SKILL.md  [B] plugin.py  [C] Both  [D] Skip
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Say C and it writes both files immediately:

• ~/.hermes/skills/<category>/<name>/SKILL.md — AI instructions for the workflow
• ~/.hermes/plugins/<name>.py — A slash command that triggers it directly

Installation

Requirements: Hermes Agent v2026.3+

git clone https://github.com/your-username/hermes-skill-factory
cd hermes-skill-factory
bash install.sh

Or manually:

# Install the meta-skill
mkdir -p ~/.hermes/skills/meta/skill-factory
cp skills/skill-factory/SKILL.md ~/.hermes/skills/meta/skill-factory/

# Install the plugin
cp plugins/skill_factory.py ~/.hermes/plugins/

Then activate:

hermes skills reload
hermes skills enable skill-factory

Usage

Once installed, Skill Factory runs in the background during every session.

Tip: You can also just tell Hermes naturally:

• "Save this as a skill"
• "Remember how to do this"
• "Turn this workflow into a reusable skill"

What Gets Generated

SKILL.md

A complete skill definition following Hermes' native skill format:

---
name: Python Env Setup
category: software-development
description: Reproducible Python project setup
tags: [python, venv, testing]
---

# Python Env Setup

## When to Activate
...

## Workflow
### Phase 1: Environment
1. python -m venv .venv
2. source .venv/bin/activate
...

## Examples
...

plugin.py

A scaffolded Hermes plugin with a slash command:

def register(hermes):
    @hermes.command(name="python-env-setup", ...)
    async def run_skill(ctx, args=""):
        # Step 1: Create venv
        # Step 2: Install deps
        # Step 3: Run tests
        ...

Repo Structure

hermes-skill-factory/
├── skills/
│   └── skill-factory/
│       └── SKILL.md          # The meta-skill (core AI instructions)
├── plugins/
│   └── skill_factory.py      # Plugin: /skill-factory commands
├── templates/
│   ├── SKILL_TEMPLATE.md     # Template for generated skills
│   └── PLUGIN_TEMPLATE.py    # Template for generated plugins
├── examples/
│   └── generated/
│       └── git-pr-workflow/  # Example of a Skill Factory output
│           └── SKILL.md
├── docs/
│   └── how-it-works.md       # Architecture deep-dive
└── install.sh                # One-command installer

How It Works

See docs/how-it-works.md for a full breakdown.

TL;DR:

1. SKILL.md teaches the Hermes AI how to observe, detect, and propose skills
2. skill_factory.py provides the /skill-factory commands and file generation
3. You work normally — Skill Factory watches silently and proposes at the right moment

Examples

The examples/generated/ directory contains real example outputs from Skill Factory:

• git-pr-workflow — End-to-end PR creation workflow

Contributing

PRs welcome. If you've generated a great skill using Skill Factory, consider adding it to examples/generated/ with a PR.

License

MIT