Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx agentmods add agents/oxbshw/watch-skill/hermesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oxbshw/watch-skillWhat it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00482 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00241 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00096 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00048 |
Grade A, and why
hermes scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
What it actually says
Watch Skill in Hermes Agent (and Hermes-style harnesses)
Status: doc-verified ☑ — matches the hermes-agent docs; not executed here.
Hermes Agent (Nous Research) and harnesses like it extend through skills — instruction files over CLI tools — rather than a plugin store. Watch Skill's skills library is exactly that shape.
Install
# the skills shell out to `watch-skill`, so it needs to be on PATH
uv tool install "watch-skill[standard]" # or: pipx install "watch-skill[standard]"
watch-skill doctor
Configure
Two working paths, pick one:
Skills. Add the library to the harness's skills directory (Hermes bundles skills as directories with instruction files; copy or symlink ours):
skills/ → your hermes skills dir
AGENTS.md. Hermes-style harnesses read repo instructions. Drop
adapters/agents-md/AGENTS.md
into the project root — it teaches any instruction-following agent the
full CLI contract (watch → ask → loop) with no client support needed at
all.
For a networked setup, Hermes exposes an OpenAI-compatible endpoint and
can call HTTP tools; run watch-skill api and use the REST recipe in
frameworks.md (OpenAPI at /openapi.json).
Smoke test (3 steps)
- Ask: "Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqz-KE-bpKQ — what
happens at 0:10?" — the agent should run
watch-skill watch. - Check for
t=MM:SScitations in the answer. - Follow up about the same video — expect
watch-skill ask, not a re-watch.
Notes
- This page doubles as the recipe for any agent whose only extension
points are "instructions + a shell": skills dir if it has one,
AGENTS.mdif it doesn't, REST if it can't even shell out.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 3d ago First seen · 55 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 3bac92154035
hermes is an agent published in the GitHub repository oxbshw/watch-skill (320 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 482 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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