A registry tells you what exists. This is the decision layer: 22 hand-checked skills, plugins, registries, and collections across 7 use cases — each with the install command taken from its README, what it's compatible with, and a one-line verdict on why you'd pick it over the alternatives.
Want the whole category ranked by stars instead? That's the ranked list — top Hermes skills, all 44 of them.
Updated 2026-08-20 · tested against Hermes v0.20.4
If you only install one thing per category, install these.
The most-starred agentic skills framework in the catalog by two orders of magnitude. If you install exactly one dev-workflow plugin, this is the default.
hermes plugins install obra/superpowers --enable
superpowers details →
800+ skills across 29 security domains mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, ATLAS, D3FEND, and NIST — the largest and most-starred security pack in the catalog. Start here before any narrower pentest skill.
npx skills add mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills
Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills details →
A genuinely different mechanism: runs in the background, deduplicates, and cross-pollinates your skill library across agents, devices, and users instead of just hosting a list.
git clone https://github.com/AMAP-ML/SkillClaw.git, run scripts/install_skillclaw.sh, activate the venv, then run skillclaw setup.
SkillClaw details →
Eleven diagram-type presets plus Mermaid-to-drawio conversion, and the most-starred diagram skill in the catalog — the clear default over hand-rolling diagram prompts.
npx skills add Agents365-ai/365-skills -g (or git clone into your skills directory).
drawio-skill details →
Three modes (Rewrite, Detect, Edit) and a 100+ entry tiered word-replacement table — the most mechanically detailed de-AI-ify skill in the category, not a vague 'sound more human' prompt.
git clone https://github.com/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing into your skills directory (or install the plugin from its marketplace).
avoid-ai-writing details →
A genuinely new primitive — a master router plus vendored official protocol skills covering ERC-7710 delegated permissions, x402 payments, and escrow/dispute resolution as one catch-all agent-commerce skill.
hermes skills tap add internet-court/internet-court-skill (the README prefers the tap over a direct URL install, which misses bundled reference files).
internet-court-skill details →
The only skill in the catalog wiring Hermes directly into a self-hosted Nextcloud over WebDAV/CalDAV/CardDAV — no browser, no third-party sync service, credentials kept in a restricted local .env.
git clone https://github.com/adnw-vinc/hermes-nextcloud.git into ~/.hermes/skills/productivity/nextcloud, then run its guided setup script.
hermes-nextcloud details →
Structured methodologies and subagent swarms that turn ad-hoc coding sessions into repeatable, checkpointed workflows — spec-first planning, adversarial code review, and multi-agent simplification passes.
Structured skill packs mapping MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, and CVE data into agent-usable procedures for pentesting, forensics, and threat modeling.
Meta-tools that sit above individual skills — registries, retrieval layers, evolution engines, and large curated skill collections spanning many professions.
Skills and tools that turn natural-language descriptions into draw.io diagrams, FLUX-generated images, or full local-first design prototypes.
Skills for auditing AI-sounding prose, extracting structured YouTube data, and generating marketing or e-commerce material.
Skills for interacting with smart-contract oracle networks and for structuring agent-to-agent commerce, escrow, delegated permissions, and micropayments.
Skills that connect Hermes to personal infrastructure like self-hosted Nextcloud and that smooth over Windows/WSL/Git Bash path and runtime quirks.
Nous Research's own Skills Hub is the registry — the place skills are published and installed from. Atlas is the judgment layer on top of it: which of them are worth installing, and why. These 9 entries are the other side of that split — search surfaces, taps, and bulk collections that hand you many skills at once rather than solving one problem well.
Everything in the Atlas categorized as Skills & Skill Registries, ranked by live GitHub stars. Entries without a verdict above haven't been through a curation pass yet.