How to add skills in Hermes

Start from the Hermes skills system.

Read Skills System. All skills live in ~/.hermes/skills/. Installed skills are slash commands.

Install, list, uninstall.

Commands on that page include:

• hermes skills install … — GitHub path, skills.sh slug, or a SKILL.md URL
• hermes skills list — and hermes skills list --source hub for hub-installed
• hermes skills inspect … — preview before installing
• hermes skills uninstall <name> — remove a hub skill

You can also drop a shop folder into ~/.hermes/skills/ after downloading from a companion.

Add a Tiny Design Shop skill.

Use Get skill on the hub, or point hermes skills install at the GitHub folder / SKILL.md URL for that pack. Confirm with hermes skills list.

DeepSeek is a model, not a skills folder.

DeepSeek has no first-party Agent Skills home directory. In Hermes you pick DeepSeek as the model; skills still live in ~/.hermes/skills/. Same idea in Cursor: the model dropdown is not a ~/.deepseek/skills path. See also Add skills in Cursor.