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+# Hermes agent skills roster — extracted 2026-10-31
+
+## Source
+`skills_list` (Hermes Agent), 2026-10-31. The source's own `count` field reports 53, and the
+enumerated `skills` array carries 53 distinct entries (verified row-by-row). This table is
+verified against all 53 enumerated entries.
+
+## All skills
+
+| # | Category | Skill | Description |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| 1 | autonomous-ai-agents | claude-code | Delegate coding to Claude Code CLI (features, PRs). |
+| 2 | autonomous-ai-agents | codex | Delegate coding to OpenAI Codex CLI (features, PRs). |
+| 3 | autonomous-ai-agents | computer-use | Drive the desktop background-first; escalate on signal. |
+| 4 | autonomous-ai-agents | hermes-agent | Use, configure, theme, extend, and orchestrate Hermes Agent. |
+| 5 | autonomous-ai-agents | opencode | Delegate coding to OpenCode CLI (features, PR review). |
+| 6 | creative | architecture-diagram | Dark-themed SVG architecture/cloud/infra diagrams as HTML. |
+| 7 | creative | ascii-video | ASCII video: convert video/audio to colored ASCII MP4/GIF. |
+| 8 | creative | baoyu-infographic | Infographics: 21 layouts x 21 styles (信息图, 可视化). |
+| 9 | creative | claude-design | Design one-off HTML artifacts (landing, deck, prototype). |
+| 10 | creative | design-md | Author/validate/export Google's DESIGN.md token spec files. |
+| 11 | creative | humanizer | Humanize text: strip AI-isms and add real voice. |
+| 12 | creative | manim-video | Manim CE animations: 3Blue1Brown math/algo videos. |
+| 13 | creative | p5js | p5.js sketches: gen art, shaders, interactive, 3D. |
+| 14 | creative | popular-web-designs | 54 real design systems (Stripe, Linear, Vercel) as HTML/CSS. |
+| 15 | creative | songwriting-and-ai-music | Songwriting craft and Suno AI music prompts. |
+| 16 | email | email-inbox-triage | Triage an inbox: prioritize threads, draft replies safely. |
+| 17 | email | himalaya | Himalaya CLI: IMAP/SMTP email from terminal. |
+| 18 | media | gif-search | Search/download GIFs from Tenor via curl + jq. |
+| 19 | media | songsee | Audio spectrograms/features (mel, chroma, MFCC) via CLI. |
+| 20 | media | youtube-content | YouTube transcripts to summaries, threads, blogs. |
+| 21 | note-taking | obsidian | Read, search, create, and edit notes in the Obsidian vault. |
+| 22 | productivity | airtable | Airtable REST API via curl. Records CRUD, filters, upserts. |
+| 23 | productivity | box | Box manages cloud files, sharing, search, and metadata. |
+| 24 | productivity | document-to-action-items | Extract cited obligations, deadlines, tasks from documents. |
+| 25 | productivity | docx | Create, read, edit, template, and review Word .docx files. |
+| 26 | productivity | google-workspace | Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets via gws CLI or Python. |
+| 27 | productivity | maps | Geocode, POIs, routes, timezones via OpenStreetMap/OSRM. |
+| 28 | productivity | meeting-action-items | Turn meeting notes into cited decisions, owners, tickets. |
+| 29 | productivity | notion | Notion API + ntn CLI: pages, databases, markdown, Workers. |
+| 30 | productivity | pdf | PDF files: create, read, merge, OCR, edit text. |
+| 31 | productivity | powerpoint | Create, read, edit .pptx decks with python-pptx. |
+| 32 | productivity | product-price-monitor | Watch product, flight, or listing prices; alert on target. |
+| 33 | productivity | teams-meeting-pipeline | Teams meeting summaries, job replay, Graph subscriptions. |
+| 34 | productivity | weekly-review-planning | Weekly reset: commitments, stalled work, next-week plan. |
+| 35 | productivity | xlsx | Create, read, edit Excel .xlsx workbooks and CSVs. |
+| 36 | research | arxiv | Search arXiv papers by keyword, author, category, or ID. |
+| 37 | research | competitor-news-monitor | Watch named companies for material news; cited digests. |
+| 38 | research | grounded-citations | Ground answers and documents in cited, verifiable sources. |
+| 39 | research | llm-wiki | Karpathy's LLM Wiki: build/query interlinked markdown KB. |
+| 40 | social-media | xurl | X/Twitter via xurl CLI: raw post search, posting, DM, media. |
+| 41 | software-development | codebase-inspection | Inspect codebases w/ pygount: LOC, languages, ratios. |
+| 42 | software-development | dogfood | Exploratory QA of web apps: find bugs, evidence, reports. |
+| 43 | software-development | github | GitHub via gh CLI: PRs, issues, reviews, repos, auth. |
+| 44 | software-development | hermes-agent-skill-authoring | Author in-repo SKILL.md files: frontmatter and structure. |
+| 45 | software-development | inspecting-hermes-desktop-dom | Read the live Hermes desktop DOM/CSS over CDP. |
+| 46 | software-development | node-inspect-debugger | Debug Node.js via --inspect + Chrome DevTools Protocol CLI. |
+| 47 | software-development | python-debugpy | Debug Python: pdb REPL + debugpy remote (DAP). |
+| 48 | software-development | requesting-code-review | Pre-commit review: security scan, quality gates, auto-fix. |
+| 49 | software-development | simplify-code | Parallel 4-agent cleanup of recent code changes. |
+| 50 | software-development | spike | Throwaway experiments to validate an idea before build. |
+| 51 | software-development | systematic-debugging | 4-phase root cause debugging: understand bugs before fixing. |
+| 52 | software-development | test-driven-development | TDD: enforce RED-GREEN-REFACTOR, tests before code. |
+| 53 | web | blocked-page-recovery | Use when a fetch fails: 403/429, paywall, WAF, bot wall. |