Hermes Agent Tool Mapping

Skills speak in actions ("dispatch a subagent", "create a todo", "read a file"). On Hermes Agent these resolve to the tools below.

Tools

Action skills request	Hermes tool
Read a file	read_file
Create a new file	write_file
Edit a file (targeted patch)	patch
Run a shell command	terminal
Search file contents	search_files
Find files by name	terminal with find
Fetch a URL / read a webpage	web_extract(urls=[...])
Search the web	web_search(query=...)
Dispatch a subagent	delegate_task(goal=..., context=..., toolsets=[...], role="leaf")
Task tracking	todo tool
Invoke a skill	skill_view("skill-name")

Instructions file

When a skill mentions "your instructions file," on Hermes Agent this is AGENTS.md in the project directory, or SOUL.md globally at ~/.hermes/SOUL.md.

Invoking a skill

Hermes Agent has a skills toolset with skill_view and skills_list tools. To invoke a superpowers skill, use:

skill_view("brainstorming")
skill_view("test-driven-development")

If skill_view cannot find a superpowers skill (it may not appear in the catalog until the plugin fully registers it), fall back to reading the SKILL.md directly: