HERMES AGENT BUILT A SKILL THAT AUTOMATED AN 8-HOUR WORKFLOW INTO 80 MINUTES. THE AGENT BUILT IT FROM ITS OWN COMPLETED SESSIONS.

one user ran their customer pipeline through Hermes repeatedly: meetings → recordings → product requirements → technical specs → development → delivery.

after enough runs, Hermes identified the pattern and created a skill that handles the full pipeline:

→ takes meeting recordings → extracts requirements automatically → runs research on the extracted data → generates product requirement documents → generates technical specifications → delegates the build to a coding agent → sends a link to the finished product

what Hermes skills contain:

→ when to use (trigger conditions) → step-by-step procedure → known pitfalls to avoid → verification steps (how to confirm it worked)

stored as markdown in ~/.hermes/skills/. readable, editable, permanent.

agents with 20+ self-created skills finish similar future tasks ~40% faster.

month 1 you explain everything. month 3 the agent runs your core workflows from the skills it built along the way.

full breakdown of Hermes as a Personal AI OS in the article 👇