Hermes + Newsjack: agentic PR team

What this agent can do

• airtable

  Airtable REST API via curl. Records CRUD, filters, upserts.

• angle-generator

  Turn a company update into 3-7 structurally distinct, journalist-shaped story angles. Runs the fact through proven newsroom lenses (perspective, abstraction, news values, data, contrarian, news peg) and refuses rephrasings, invented facts, named-journalist guesses, and AI-marketing slop.

• apple-notes

  Manage Apple Notes via memo CLI: create, search, edit.

• apple-reminders

  Apple Reminders via remindctl: add, list, complete.

• architecture-diagram

  Dark-themed SVG architecture/cloud/infra diagrams as HTML.

• arxiv

  Search arXiv papers by keyword, author, category, or ID.

• ascii-art

  ASCII art: pyfiglet, cowsay, boxes, image-to-ascii.

• ascii-video

  ASCII video: convert video/audio to colored ASCII MP4/GIF.

• audiocraft-audio-generation

  AudioCraft: MusicGen text-to-music, AudioGen text-to-sound.

• baoyu-infographic

  Infographics: 21 layouts x 21 styles (信息图, 可视化).

• blogwatcher

  Monitor blogs and RSS/Atom feeds via blogwatcher-cli tool.

• claude-code

  Delegate coding to Claude Code CLI (features, PRs).

• claude-design

  Design one-off HTML artifacts (landing, deck, prototype).

• codebase-inspection

  Inspect codebases w/ pygount: LOC, languages, ratios.

• codex

  Delegate coding to OpenAI Codex CLI (features, PRs).

• comfyui

  Generate images, video, and audio with ComfyUI — install, launch, manage nodes/models, run workflows with parameter injection. Uses the official comfy-cli for lifecycle and direct REST/WebSocket API for execution.

• computer-use

  Drive the user's desktop in the background — clicking, typing, scrolling, dragging — without stealing the cursor, keyboard focus, or switching virtual desktops / Spaces. Cross-platform: macOS, Windows, Linux. Works with any tool-capable model. Load this skill whenever the `computer_use` tool is available.

• coverage-tracker

  Run a Google Alerts-style keyword coverage tracker. Uses news-search for recent keyword queries, lets the LLM dedupe and classify real features versus junk, stores decisions in SQLite, and alerts only on new real coverage.

• coverage-tracker-setup

  Set up a lightweight Google Alerts-style coverage tracker for any number of keywords. Creates a tracker config with each keyword and what it actually means, then hands recurrence to the user's agent harness.

• crisis-holding

  Draft crisis holding statements, journalist Q&A posture, and what-not-to-say guidance from confirmed incident facts, with a hard legal-counsel gate. Builds each statement through proven crisis-comms frameworks (holding-statement anatomy, SCCT, CAP order, the legitimate non-answer, bridge/flag/block).

• design-md

  Author/validate/export Google's DESIGN.md token spec files.

• dogfood

  Exploratory QA of web apps: find bugs, evidence, reports.

• evaluating-llms-harness

  lm-eval-harness: benchmark LLMs (MMLU, GSM8K, etc.).

• excalidraw

  Hand-drawn Excalidraw JSON diagrams (arch, flow, seq).

• fact-check

  Extract factual claims from PR copy, verify each claim independently, attach concrete citations, and warn when certainty is low. Runs each claim through proven newsroom verification methods (lateral reading, source-tier climbing, provenance pillars, triangulation, calibrated rating) and puts the burden of proof on the speaker. Use before a pitch, press release, reactive comment, DM, or other journalist-facing draft is trusted or sent.

• find-journalists

  Build, refine, dedupe, and enrich small fit-checked journalist lists for newsjack campaigns. Uses the newsjack CLI (preferred) or the medialyst MCP for news search and journalist enrichment, and falls back to a best-effort local mode with no verified contacts; the agent owns how returned data is organized.

• findmy

  Track Apple devices/AirTags via FindMy.app on macOS.

• gif-search

  Search/download GIFs from Tenor via curl + jq.

• github-auth

  GitHub auth setup: HTTPS tokens, SSH keys, gh CLI login.

• github-code-review

  Review PRs: diffs, inline comments via gh or REST.

• github-issues

  Create, triage, label, assign GitHub issues via gh or REST.

• github-pr-workflow

  GitHub PR lifecycle: branch, commit, open, CI, merge.

• github-repo-management

  Clone/create/fork repos; manage remotes, releases.

• google-workspace

  Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets via gws CLI or Python.

• headline-generator

  Generate headline candidates from a story's raw facts: news-style headlines, press-release headlines, and pitch subject lines. A pure generation skill — it finds the charge in the facts, then runs ten proven moves (consequence, picture, number-as-hero, two-beat turn, naming, reader's-own-story, open question, voice, sound, sized claim), each calibrated by real, verified headlines that made history.

• heartmula

  HeartMuLa: Suno-like song generation from lyrics + tags.

• hermes-agent

  Configure, extend, or contribute to Hermes Agent.

• hermes-agent-skill-authoring

  Author in-repo SKILL.md: frontmatter, validator, structure, and writing-quality principles.

• himalaya

  Himalaya CLI: IMAP/SMTP email from terminal.

• huggingface-hub

  HuggingFace hf CLI: search/download/upload models, datasets.

• humanizer

  Humanize text: strip AI-isms and add real voice.

• imessage

  Send and receive iMessages/SMS via the imsg CLI on macOS.

• journalist-fit-check

  Gate a pitch against one journalist at a time. Runs the pair through proven media-relations checks (last-10-bylines audit, 90-day topic sweep, beat-vs-angle-vs-one-off, the 5 forms of journalism, source-mirror, stated-preferences, database triangulation) and returns fit, soft-fit, no-fit, or unknown with a real recent anchor and specific edits.

• jupyter-live-kernel

  Iterative Python via live Jupyter kernel (hamelnb).

• llama-cpp

  llama.cpp local GGUF inference + HF Hub model discovery.

• llm-wiki

  Karpathy's LLM Wiki: build/query interlinked markdown KB.

• manim-video

  Manim CE animations: 3Blue1Brown math/algo videos.

• maps

  Geocode, POIs, routes, timezones via OpenStreetMap/OSRM.

• meanest-editor

  Roast a pitch or press release with the eye of a veteran PR director. Honest, sharp, constructive — never cruel for its own sake.

• nano-pdf

  Edit PDF text/typos/titles via nano-pdf CLI (NL prompts).

• news-search

  Search current news for a topic, company, competitor, or hook and return dated, attributed articles. Uses the newsjack CLI and Medialyst REST API when available, tries direct Medialyst MCP if the CLI is missing, and falls back to host web/browser search with explicit caveats only when neither cloud path is available.

• newsjack-detector

  Monitor current news and reaction signals, then decide which are credible newsjacking opportunities for a client. Uses the local monitoring engine for evidence, but the skill owns PR judgment, brand safety, standing, decay, angle fit, and handoff.

• newsjack-monitor-setup

  Set up a newsjack monitoring profile for a company so newsjack-detector can run on a schedule. Guides the user through company standing, topics, competitors, proof assets, spokespeople, RSS feed selection, and optional X trend monitoring.

• newsjack-triage

  Consolidate freshness-gated newsjack signals and route them by client standing before angle generation. Collapses any remaining same-story duplicates, decides strong/partial/none standing with a journalist-shape sanity check, and sorts each story into pitch_ready, big_story (always-surfaced suggestion), or watch. Never writes angles or pitches, and never drops a fresh big story.

• newsworthiness-check

  Score whether a news event is worth newsjacking, or whether a user's pitch idea is actually newsworthy to journalists. Uses calibrated anchors, hard anti-inflation rules, standing checks, timing windows, and brand-safety kill switches.

• node-inspect-debugger

  Debug Node.js via --inspect + Chrome DevTools Protocol CLI.

• notion

  Notion API + ntn CLI: pages, databases, markdown, Workers.

• obsidian

  Read, search, create, and edit notes in the Obsidian vault.

• ocr-and-documents

  Extract text from PDFs/scans (pymupdf, marker-pdf).

• opencode

  Delegate coding to OpenCode CLI (features, PR review).

• openhue

  Control Philips Hue lights, scenes, rooms via OpenHue CLI.

• p5js

  p5.js sketches: gen art, shaders, interactive, 3D.

• petdex

  Install and select animated petdex mascots for Hermes.

• plan

  Plan mode: write an actionable markdown plan to .hermes/plans/, no execution. Bite-sized tasks, exact paths, complete code.

• polymarket

  Query Polymarket: markets, prices, orderbooks, history.

• popular-web-designs

  54 real design systems (Stripe, Linear, Vercel) as HTML/CSS.

• powerpoint

  Create, read, edit .pptx decks, slides, notes, templates.

• pr-strategist

  Opinionated startup-PR strategist that helps founders figure out audience, positioning, news pegs, and drumbeat before any tactical PR. Refuses outlet-naming-before-audience, mass blasts, vanity metrics, and premature agency spend.

• press-clip

  Turn a live article URL into a press clip that looks like the real coverage — the publication's own logo, fonts, photos and layout kept intact, the ads and clutter removed, and (for a roundup) just the client's section. Renders to PDF. You inspect each site and tailor the removal; the bundled script carries no site-specific logic.

• pretext

  Use when building creative browser demos with @chenglou/pretext — DOM-free text layout for ASCII art, typographic flow around obstacles, text-as-geometry games, kinetic typography, and text-powered generative art. Produces single-file HTML demos by default.

• python-debugpy

  Debug Python: pdb REPL + debugpy remote (DAP).

• reactive-comment

  Triage inbound journalist source queries and draft a response only when the user's expertise is a real fit. Runs each query through proven source-request lenses (4-gate fit triage, credential-standing test, deadline read, BLUF/inverted-pyramid drafting), kills weak fits, asks for missing proof, and never auto-sends.

• relevance-coarse-filter

  Cheap, high-recall first-pass filter that removes obvious junk from a detector candidate pool before expensive story-origin research and PR judgment. Decides keep, monitor_only, or reject — never ranks, writes angles, verifies dates, or decides whether to pitch.

• requesting-code-review

  Pre-commit review: security scan, quality gates, auto-fix.

• research-paper-writing

  Write ML papers for NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR: design→submit.

• segment-anything-model

  SAM: zero-shot image segmentation via points, boxes, masks.

• serving-llms-vllm

  vLLM: high-throughput LLM serving, OpenAI API, quantization.

• simplify-code

  Parallel 3-agent cleanup of recent code changes.

• sketch

  Throwaway HTML mockups: 2-3 design variants to compare.

• songsee

  Audio spectrograms/features (mel, chroma, MFCC) via CLI.

• songwriting-and-ai-music

  Songwriting craft and Suno AI music prompts.

• spike

  Throwaway experiments to validate an idea before build.

• story-origin-check

  Recover the first public timestamp and canonical major coverage for a newsjacking signal, then decide whether newer coverage is the same story, a different story, or a materially new development.

• systematic-debugging

  4-phase root cause debugging: understand bugs before fixing.

• teams-meeting-pipeline

  Operate the Teams meeting summary pipeline via Hermes CLI — summarize meetings, inspect pipeline status, replay jobs, manage Microsoft Graph subscriptions.

• test-driven-development

  TDD: enforce RED-GREEN-REFACTOR, tests before code.

• touchdesigner-mcp

  Control a running TouchDesigner instance via twozero MCP — create operators, set parameters, wire connections, execute Python, build real-time visuals. 36 native tools.

• voice-extractor

  Capture a user's real writing voice from 5-20 prior samples, store a local voice.yaml fingerprint, and enforce it on newsjack drafts so AI tells disappear. Measures voice with named stylometry lenses (Burrows's Delta function-word vector, MATTR lexical diversity, sentence-length burstiness, Biber Dimension-1 register, opener-POS profile, punctuation rates) and gates drafts against the fingerprint as bands, not vibes.

• weights-and-biases

  W&B: log ML experiments, sweeps, model registry, dashboards.

• xurl

  X/Twitter via xurl CLI: post, search, DM, media, v2 API.

• youtube-content

  YouTube transcripts to summaries, threads, blogs.

• yuanbao

  Yuanbao (元宝) groups: @mention users, query info/members.

What you'll configure after forking

Secrets are scrubbed from shared templates — these are the names you supply in your agent's terminal once it boots.