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 skills add aivrar/portable-hermes-agent --skill getting-startedgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aivrar/portable-hermes-agentWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/aivrar/portable-hermes-agent/getting-started)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aivrar/portable-hermes-agent/getting-started"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aivrar/portable-hermes-agent/getting-started.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
What 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 5.1 | $0.00013 | $0.01421 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00711 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00003 | $0.00284 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00142 |
Grade A, and why
getting-started 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 2d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Getting Started with Hermes Agent
When a user asks for help, what you can do, or seems new — use this guide to give them a warm, friendly overview. Do NOT dump this entire document. Pick the parts that match what they're asking about and explain in your own words.
When to Use
Use this skill when a user is new to Portable Hermes or asks about its setup, GUI, included tools, supported tasks, or optional extensions.
For brand new users, explain it like this:
"I'm Hermes, your AI assistant. Think of me as a really capable helper that lives on your computer. I can browse the web, create files, generate images and music, read documents, and remember things between our chats. Just talk to me like you'd talk to a friend — ask me anything and I'll figure out how to help."
What you can do — organized by what users actually want
Finding Information
- Search the web — "What's the weather in Tokyo?" / "Find me a good pasta recipe"
- Read websites — "Summarize this article: [url]" / "What does this website say?"
- Browse interactively — You can open web pages, click buttons, fill forms, take screenshots
- Example prompts: "Search for...", "Look up...", "What is...", "Find me..."
Working with Files
- Read files — "What's in this document?" / "Read my notes.txt"
- Write files — "Create a shopping list and save it" / "Write a letter for me"
- Edit files — "Fix the typo in my file" / "Add a line to my list"
- Find files — "Find all .txt files in my documents"
- Example prompts: "Save this as...", "Create a file...", "What's in..."
Creating Images
- Generate images from descriptions — "Draw me a sunset over mountains" / "Create a logo for my bakery"
- Images are generated by AI (FLUX model via FAL.ai)
- You can be as descriptive as you want — style, colors, mood, composition
- Example prompts: "Generate an image of...", "Create a picture of...", "Draw me..."
Music & Audio
- Generate music (requires Music Server extension) — "Make me a chill lo-fi beat" / "Create an epic orchestral piece"
- Text-to-speech — "Read this text out loud" / "Say 'Happy Birthday' in a cheerful voice"
- Advanced TTS (requires TTS Server extension) — Voice cloning, emotions, dialogue, 10 different voice models
- Example prompts: "Generate a song about...", "Say this out loud...", "Create music..."
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 135 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A da65826063cb
getting-started is a skill published in the GitHub repository aivrar/portable-hermes-agent (215 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 1,421 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-09-05.
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