3 wacky Hermes skills you should try

I have installed Hermes. You made it look Better than ChatGPT. Now you’re wondering what to actually do with it.

most Hermes skills It’s serious stuff: GitHub PR workflows, pipelines, developer process automation, etc. The type of content that belongs to the Productivity group in an enterprise AI conference.

But AI agents can be too Hazar also.

One of the nice things about AI agents is that they can be configured to do whatever you want, not what your AI provider wants the AI ​​to do for you. That’s why some agents argue that they will shape the next era of the Internet: people will be able to create on-demand apps, tailored to their needs, rather than having to wait for someone else to publish an app on the Google Play Store that fits what they’re looking for.

Here are three non-work-related skills that might make your time with Hermès more enjoyable.

#1 – Zoltar: The fortune teller who does not falsify the truth

The name is a reference to the coin-operated fortune-telling machine from the 1988 film “Big” — the one in which Tom Hanks makes a wish and immediately regrets the consequences.

the Zoltar skill Not a chatbot playing the role of a mystic. It is a complete hex engine that runs real arithmetic libraries.

Ask for a natal chart and Hermes will take flight KirikionThe Python library is built on the Swiss Ephemeris, the same standard for astrological calculation that professional astrology software has used for decades.

You give him your date of birth, time, and city. It returns each planetary position by sign and degree, house placements using the Placidus house system, aspect grid, element and manner details, and retrograde signs.

The following explanation cites specific instances that justify each statement. Not general personality traits. So expect things like, “With Mars in Aries square the 10th house with Pluto, your drive is intense but your relationship with authority will create frequent friction.”

If you’re interested in this kind of thing, you know what it means and probably understand the theory behind this statement. If not, you might say, “Hey, that’s just like me!”

This is just one of six modes.

Daily horoscopes are pulled directly from the Ohmanda API, a free endpoint that returns professionally written daily readings for each sign.

The Tarot is drawn from a structured deck of 78 cards in the Rider-Waite-Smith tradition, and is available as single draws, three-card past/present/future, or a full 10-place Celtic cross, with each card referred to by its traditional meaning.

The I-Ching uses a Python implementation of the coin casting method, returns the hexagram with number and name, and interprets the “sentence” and “image” scripts for that specific hexagram – not the general “change is coming” wisdom.

Numerology runs the complete Pythagorean system: life path, expression, soul desire, personality, birthday, and maturity numbers, all calculated and interpreted from scratch.

The runes are drawn from the Elder Futhark dataset which includes all 24 runes, including the Merkstave (reversed) placements – with the correct caveat that eight identical runes like Gebo and Isa cannot be reversed, and thus the skill does not apply to them.

If you request a full reading report, Hermes can create a designed HTML document and save it to your desktop. It’s the kind of thing you can hand to someone who doesn’t know it was created by AI and will assume you paid for it.

Is astrology “real”? This debate is older than the Internet and is beyond the scope of this article. What Zoltar is is certainly accurate, each reading cites a verifiable source. “Moon in Pisces in 7th House, Venus” is a statement about the actual planetary positions at the time of your birth, calculated on the true ephemeris. The interpretation is traditional, not invented. What you do with that is a question for philosophers.

To install it, drop SKILL.md from the file Zoltar Vol In your ~/.hermes/skills/ directory. Hermes automatically picks it up in the next session. Then type something like /zoltar followed by whatever question you have, and let the old machine do the talking.

Or simply have Hermes install this skill and give it the Github URL. Then write something like “Use your Zoltar skills, give me my horoscope, tarot reading, and star chart. My name is John Doe, and I was born on April 29, 1969 at 6:45 AM in Washington, DC.”

Pair it with Telegram to get the full effect. Having an AI fortune teller respond to your voice memos at 11pm is either the best use of technology in 2026 or the worst ever. Maybe both.

#2 – Anti-Scam: Once upon a time there was a scammer

You know the message. “Hi honey, I need help recovering my bitcoin.” Inheritance. Job offer that requires a small processing fee. Bank Security Alert with a link that will definitely go to your bank.

Standard advice: ignore her, block her, move on. the Anti-fraud skill He has a more creative proposal.

It uses Hermes browser control to flood a scammer’s open chat – on WhatsApp Web, Telegram Web or Discord – with the full “Shrek” scenario. Line by line. One message at a time. All of them are 3679.

If you don’t like “Shrek,” the skill also comes with “Bee Movie” text as an alternative at 1,371 lines, for a slightly more compact revenge experience. You can also feed it with any custom text if you have a favorite literary weapon in mind.

The logic is economic, not just comic. Scammers work on volume. Their business model requires searching through large numbers of targets quickly to find the few that bite. Linking to a scammer’s chat for the entirety of Shrek’s run — approximately 15 minutes to half an hour of continuous incoming messages — is a small act of sabotage against a scam.

Every minute they spend watching the lines to the tune of “Someone once told me that the world would roll me over“They arrive one by one, is the moment they’re not running the same script on someone they might actually fall in love with.

It may not be the most ethical skill ever, but programmers and other tech-savvy users have been sharing memes online for a long time. What we do is integrate some artificial intelligence into it so you don’t have to do the programming.

This skill also has a second mode for email scams: generating extremely lengthy, overly pompous, and bureaucratically complex responses – five pages written in the style of a 19th-century British lawyer, referencing non-existent legal frameworks, requesting seventeen forms of documents, and asking very specific questions about the estate of a deceased Nigerian prince that would require a significant amount of time to process.

There is an email style guide in the Skill References folder that documents precise word choice patterns and structural approaches for maximum time-wasting impact.

For example, we tried this with an email offering half a million dollars if we paid the fee to transport a coffin full of gold. The skill generated this response:

Which ChatGPT kindly translated as follows:

A word of caution: Don’t use this to deal with sophisticated phishing attempts targeting live accounts or anything involving real credentials. This skill is specifically designed for large-scale scams, such as inheritance emails, fake bank alerts, and cryptocurrency refund scams that land in everyone’s inbox. For them, Antiscammer is legitimate counterintelligence, and is fairly easy to deploy.

Install in the same way as Zoltar: copy the SKILL.md from the Anti-Fraud folder to ~/.hermes/skills/ and start a new session. You can call it directly using /antiscammer and paste any message you received. Hermes will know what to do

#3 – Mirror Book: The book that reads to you

This is the quietest of the three. There is neither theatrical frame nor animated film scripts as repertoire. Just a skill that will likely change the way you read anything in the future.

the Book mirror skill– Based on the concept before Gary tanPresident and CEO of Y Combinator – takes any book you offer and produces a two-column, chapter-by-chapter analysis.

Left column: What the author actually wrote with specific stories, specific statistics, direct quotes, named frames, and exact numbers. Detailed enough that you can technically skip reading the original book and not miss the material.

Right column: How it all applies to your actual life.

Not life in general. Your specific life—the real people in it, the real decisions you’ve made, and the patterns Hermes has picked up through your conversations. Before beginning the analysis, the skill builds a context pack from Hermes memory: your name, role, key relationships to the name, recurring emotional patterns from the session history, active projects and stressors, and specific quotes from your own words. If memory is poor, she asks targeted questions to fill in the gaps.

The instructions in the right column are deliberately specific: “Name real people from their lives, give real dates, real situations, real decisions they made. Read like a therapist who knows them by writing notes in the margins.”

It accepts PDFs, EPUBs, URLs, or just a title — in which case Hermes searches Project Gutenberg or Archive.org for a public domain version. Extraction runs PyMuPDF for PDF files and ebooklib for EPUB files, splitting text by chapter tags, and processing chapters sequentially rather than in parallel. He builds context as he reads – what he learns in Chapter Three should inform how he reflects it in Chapter Seven.

The richer Hermes’ memory of your context, the clearer the right-hand column becomes. The agent who has been with you for three months knows things about your patterns that you may not have said outright but inferred from what you said. This accumulation is exactly what this skill is designed to be used for.

Give him the business book you’ve been putting off. Give him a philosophical text that never clicks. Give her the novel that stuck with you last year for reasons you can’t mention. The right column will tell you exactly why he stopped, and will likely name the person in your life he’s already talking about it.

He lives in Book Mirror Folder. Install and save the book and let it run. For anything over 20 chapters, give it time, it’s real reading, chapter by chapter, not skimming.

Style

Hermes piled on more 134,000 stars on GitHub At the time of writing. Community of his skills, indexed in places like Awesome Hermes agent warehouseIt covers everything from cybersecurity to Minecraft servers to Pokemon simulators.

Most of these skills are productivity tools with serious names and serious purposes. These three are different. They seem strange at first glance—a fortune teller, an anti-fraud bot, a custom book mirror—but each one of them does something real that serious skills don’t have.

Zoltar makes you process information differently. Antiscammer puts powerful AI in a role where its strengths – patience, consistency, and creating a believable script – really come in handy when faced with a real-world problem. Book-Mirror bridges the gap between reading something and actually applying it.

Community building around Hermes is moving quickly, with the proxy surpassing 100,000 GitHub stars in the first 10 weeks, according to Hermes’ impressive proxy documentation. At this pace, if agent AI is truly the next step in the whole AI revolution, you’ll likely see a lot of skills like this.

These three are in jaldps/hermes-skills repository Now, it’s free to install, and ready for the next scammer who makes the mistake of texting you first, or the next date who wants to test your fortune-telling skills.