hermes-themes

hermes-themes is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AtlasOmnia/hermes-custom-pack. It costs 20 tokens per session (1,884 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of hermes-themes, MIT.

A guide for creating one YAML theme file that changes the colours and appearance of Hermes across its command-line interface, terminal interface, and desktop app. YAML is a human-readable text format for settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create, adjust, and activate custom colour palettes and other supported skin settings.
Why use it?
It avoids maintaining separate themes for each Hermes interface and lets appearance changes be shared across them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps create, adjust, and activate custom colour palettes and other supported skin settings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/atlasomnia/hermes-custom-pack/hermes-themes
Install

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.

Any agent
npx skills add AtlasOmnia/hermes-custom-pack --skill hermes-themes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AtlasOmnia/hermes-custom-pack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,884 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00020 $0.01884
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00942
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00377
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00188

Measured 10d ago against content hash b0a42200454d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hermes-themes 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 10d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to hermes-themes — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/hermes-themes/SKILL.md · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hermes Themes Skill

Author a Hermes skin — one YAML file that themes the CLI, the TUI, and the desktop GUI at once. The skin engine (hermes_cli/skin_engine.py) resolves the active skin and the gateway pushes it to every surface, so a file dropped in ~/.hermes/skins/ is the theme analogue of a plugin: no code, all surfaces. This skill covers writing a good skin and activating it; it does not build GUI theme editors or ship built-in presets.

When to Use

  • The user asks for a custom look ("make me a synthwave theme", "dark forest vibes", "match my brand colors") for Hermes itself.
  • The user wants the CLI/TUI/desktop to share one coordinated palette.
  • The user wants to iterate live ("that coral is too loud, make it teal") — edit the active skin's YAML and every surface repaints as your tool finishes.

Prerequisites

  • Write access to the Hermes home dir — ~/.hermes by default, or $HERMES_HOME / the active profile's dir. Skins live in <hermes-home>/skins/.
  • Native tools: write_file (create the YAML), read_file / search_files (inspect existing skins), terminal (activate via hermes config set).

How to Run

  1. Pick a lowercase, hyphen-safe name (e.g. synthwave).
  2. Copy templates/skin.yaml and fill in the palette (keep every key — missing keys inherit the default skin).
  3. write_file it to <hermes-home>/skins/<name>.yaml.
  4. Activate it (see Procedure). Confirm the change landed.

Quick Reference — element → key

Hex (#rrggbb). Theming is semantic: one key colors every element that plays that role, so match the element to its key. To recolor a specific element, set the key in its row (element-specific keys fall back to the shared one when unset).

Visible element Key to set Falls back to
App background (whole TUI + GUI) background terminal default
Tool-call marker (, tool spinner) ui_tool ui_accent
Thinking / reasoning text ui_thinking banner_dim
Accent — headings, links, chevrons, Σ ui_accent / banner_accent
Heading / primary text banner_title / ui_primary
Body / label text, user messages ui_text / banner_text, ui_label
Muted / secondary, tree connectors banner_dim
Borders, rules, gutters ui_border / banner_border
Prompt symbol color prompt banner_text
Success / warn / error ui_ok / ui_warn / ui_error
Status bar text + usage status_bar_text, status_bar_good/warn/bad/critical
Diff add/remove (line + word) diff_added / diff_removed / diff_added_word / diff_removed_word built-in
Code syntax (string/number/keyword/comment) syntax_string / syntax_number / syntax_keyword / syntax_comment accent/text/border/muted
Completion menu completion_menu_bg / completion_menu_current_bg / …_meta_bg

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 lines

Files

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.

Changes

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.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 151 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A b0a42200454d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hermes-themes is a skill published in the GitHub repository AtlasOmnia/hermes-custom-pack (56 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 1,884 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to hermes-themes, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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