Getting started

HStack is twelve skills for Hermes Agent. Frame the job, shape the change, prove it, and open the pull request. The index stays small because only the router is required reading.

Skills land in ~/.hermes/skills/hstack/. Set HERMES_HOME when Hermes lives somewhere else. A default install is skills only. Browser, GitHub, docs, search, benchmarks, tests, security scans, and the decision trail stay off until you name them.

/hstack is the one to remember. It loads a catalog, picks one playbook, and stops. Name another skill when you already know the step.

/hstack the export drops rows over 10 MB
/reframe
/ship

The planning path is hstack, reframe, and shape: 1,052 tokens, under 2% of GStack's planning load on Hermes. The idle index is 204 tokens. All twelve SKILL.md bodies are 3,907. Counts use Hermes's estimator, ceil(bytes / 4).

Playbooks live under skills/hstack/hstack/references/ and load one at a time. After that playbook, the router may read stacks.md and ask before using gstack, pstack, tstack, or gbrain. Hermes shell hooks, since 0.2.0, stay off unless the install names --with hermes-hooks. The skills index lists each skill. Parity has one row for every GStack, TStack, and PStack feature that was inventoried.