Hermes Agent skills installation failure, don't rush to change the skill content. The most common problems are: the index is too old, the name is written incorrectly, the source is not accessible, or the skill is not loaded when it is installed and runtime. The official CLI documentation lists the usage of hermes skills install, hermes skills update, and runtime --skills.
Check in this order
- Run
hermes skills updatefirst to refresh the index. - Verify that the skill name and source are written correctly, such as GitHub path, ClawHub, or LobeHub name.
- After installation, use
hermes skills listto see if it exists. - Temporary runtime can be forced loaded with
hermes --skills skillName.
If it's a skill you wrote yourself, check if there is a canonical SKILL.md in the directory, and don't just put a bunch of scripts and expect Hermes to automatically recognize them.
In a word: skills installation failed, update the index and confirm the name first, and then look at the skill structure.
Official open source address: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent; Official document entry: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/.
