Enhance documentation for skills system and project structure

- Expanded `.cursorrules` to include detailed sections on the skills system, outlining the directory structure, progressive disclosure pattern, and YAML frontmatter usage for skill files.
- Updated `README.md` to introduce skills tools, providing examples of usage and creation, along with a comprehensive overview of available skills functionalities.
- Enhanced `architecture/tools.md` to document the skills tools and their integration within the Hermes-Agent framework, ensuring clarity for developers and users.
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Hermes-Agent is an agent harness for LLMs.
## Development Environment
**IMPORTANT**: Always use the virtual environment if it exists:
```bash
source venv/bin/activate # Before running any Python commands
```
## Project Structure
- `tools/` - Individual tool implementations (web, terminal, browser, vision, etc.)
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## Logging
Trajectories restructure tools as a system prompt for storage in a format suitable for later training use.
Trajectories restructure tools as a system prompt for storage in a format suitable for later training use.
## Skills System
Skills are on-demand knowledge documents the agent can load. Located in `skills/` directory:
```
skills/
├── mlops/ # Category folder
│ ├── axolotl/ # Skill folder
│ │ ├── SKILL.md # Main instructions (required)
│ │ ├── references/ # Additional docs, API specs
│ │ └── templates/ # Output formats, configs
│ └── vllm/
│ └── SKILL.md
└── example-skill/
└── SKILL.md
```
**Progressive disclosure** (token-efficient):
1. `skills_categories()` - List category names (~50 tokens)
2. `skills_list(category)` - Name + description per skill (~3k tokens)
3. `skill_view(name)` - Full content + tags + linked files
SKILL.md files use YAML frontmatter:
```yaml
---
name: skill-name
description: Brief description for listing
tags: [tag1, tag2]
related_skills: [other-skill]
version: 1.0.0
---
# Skill Content...
```
Tool files: `tools/skills_tool.py` → `model_tools.py` → `toolsets.py`

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- **Vision Tools**: Analyze images from URLs
- **Reasoning Tools**: Advanced multi-model reasoning (Mixture of Agents)
- **Creative Tools**: Generate images from text prompts
- **Skills Tools**: On-demand knowledge documents with progressive disclosure
- **Toolsets System**: Organize tools into logical groups for different scenarios
- **Batch Processing**: Process datasets in parallel with checkpointing and statistics tracking
- **Ephemeral System Prompts**: Guide model behavior without polluting training datasets
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See `.env.example` for all available configuration options including debug settings.
### Skills Tools
Skills are on-demand knowledge documents the agent can load when needed. They follow a **progressive disclosure** pattern to minimize token usage:
```
skills/
├── mlops/ # Category folder
│ ├── axolotl/ # Skill folder
│ │ ├── SKILL.md # Main instructions (required)
│ │ ├── references/ # Additional docs, API specs
│ │ └── templates/ # Output formats, configs
│ └── vllm/
│ └── SKILL.md
```
**Available Skills Tools:**
| Tool | Description |
|------|-------------|
| `skills_categories` | List available skill categories (~50 tokens) |
| `skills_list` | List skills with name + description (~3k tokens for 40 skills) |
| `skill_view` | Load full skill content, tags, and linked files |
**Example Usage:**
```bash
# Use skills tools
python run_agent.py \
--query "What skills do you have for fine-tuning? Show me the axolotl skill." \
--enabled_toolsets=skills
```
**Creating Skills:**
Skills use YAML frontmatter for metadata:
```yaml
---
name: my-skill
description: Brief description shown in skills_list
tags: [tag1, tag2]
related_skills: [other-skill]
version: 1.0.0
---
# Skill Content
Instructions, examples, and guidelines here...
```
Skills can include:
- `references/` - Additional documentation, API specs, examples
- `templates/` - Output formats, config files, boilerplate code
- `scripts/` - Executable helpers (Python, shell scripts)
## Toolsets System
The agent uses a toolsets system for organizing and managing tools. All tools must be part of a toolset to be accessible - individual tool selection is not supported. This ensures consistent and logical grouping of capabilities.
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| `toolset_distributions.py` | Probability distributions for data generation |
| `trajectory_compressor.py` | Post-process trajectories for training |
| `tools/` | Individual tool implementations |
| `tools/skills_tool.py` | Skills system with progressive disclosure |
| `skills/` | On-demand knowledge documents |
| `architecture/` | Design documentation |
| `configs/` | Example batch run scripts |

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| **Vision** | `vision_tools.py` | `vision_analyze` |
| **Image Gen** | `image_generation_tool.py` | `image_generate` |
| **Reasoning** | `mixture_of_agents_tool.py` | `mixture_of_agents` |
| **Skills** | `skills_tool.py` | `skills_categories`, `skills_list`, `skill_view` |
## Tool Registration
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- **Browser**: Maintains browser session for multi-step navigation
State is managed per `task_id` and cleaned up automatically.
## Skills Tools (Progressive Disclosure)
Skills are on-demand knowledge documents. They use **progressive disclosure** to minimize tokens:
```
Level 0: skills_categories() → ["mlops", "devops"] (~50 tokens)
Level 1: skills_list(category) → [{name, description}, ...] (~3k tokens)
Level 2: skill_view(name) → Full content + metadata (varies)
Level 3: skill_view(name, path) → Specific reference file (varies)
```
Skill directory structure:
```
skills/
└── mlops/
└── axolotl/
├── SKILL.md # Main instructions (required)
├── references/ # Additional docs
└── templates/ # Output formats, configs
```
SKILL.md uses YAML frontmatter:
```yaml
---
name: axolotl
description: Fine-tuning LLMs with Axolotl
tags: [Fine-Tuning, LoRA, DPO]
---
```