A workflow for designing and building cinematic web pages, including landing pages, portfolios, product screens, and multi-page systems.

It helps build or redesign web pages with visual storytelling, scrolling motion, or a consistent design across several screens.

It gives a structured approach to planning the story, assets, layout, and review of a web experience instead of producing an unplanned generic page.

auteur — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by NousResearch/hermes-agent

About the project

Hermes Agent is an AI assistant that learns from its use by creating and improving skills, retaining knowledge, searching past conversations, and adapting to its users. It is for people who want to run an agent through a terminal or messaging platforms while connecting it to different AI models and scheduled tasks.

NousResearch/hermes-agent · 254,120 stars · on GitHub · hermes-agent.nousresearch.com

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 NousResearch/hermes-agent --skill auteur

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/auteur/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/auteur)

Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 5,535 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 original No closer match found 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00013	$0.05535
Opus 5.5	$0.00005	$0.02214
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00003	$0.01107
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00553

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 51988bc97cf0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

auteur 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 9 executable files (scripts/chromadiff.mjs, scripts/moodboard.mjs, scripts/motionqa.mjs, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

optional-skills/creative/auteur/SKILL.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Auteur Skill

Ported from agiwhitelist/auteur (MIT), snapshot commit 9bca227d — see LICENSE. Scripts, templates and references are the upstream files (CRLF→LF), with Hermes adaptation notes and references/ path fixes as the only edits.

Auteur designs and builds web experiences the way a film director makes a film: script first, then assets, then the shoot, then the cut. It has three registers — build (an excellent conventional site), direct (a cinematic scroll-directed site) and system (a multi-screen product as one design system) — on one shared core of taste. Nothing ships until the page passes an executable anti-slop gate and the skill has looked at its own output.

When to Use

A landing page, marketing site, hero section, portfolio or product page has to be built or redesigned — and looking generic is not acceptable.
The brief asks for scroll animation, storytelling, or a site that feels like a film.
A product spans several screens that must feel like one thing — app, dashboard, admin, onboarding, docs.
Someone says make it beautiful, make it wow, cinematic, or design system, naming no technique.

Not for polishing a UI someone else built, and not for backend-only work.

Prerequisites

Node 18+ — every QA gate is a .mjs script run with node via the terminal tool.
Playwright (for the QA gates) — in the project directory: npm install playwright then npx playwright install chromium. Required by scripts/shoot.mjs, motionqa.mjs, systemscan.mjs, refscout.mjs, chromadiff.mjs, moodboard.mjs (the scripts import playwright at runtime; slopscan.mjs and source.mjs are dependency-light).
ffmpeg — optional; only for the video/score paths in references/assets.md and references/scroll-flight.md.
Hermes tools — use image_generate for image generation/editing, terminal for node/ffmpeg/npm, write_file/read_file for project files, vision_analyze to actually look at screenshots, and browser_exec for live-page inspection when a script isn't the right fit.

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 lines

Files

What ships with it

26 files 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.

1mo ago First seen · 180 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 51988bc97cf0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

auteur is a skill published in the GitHub repository NousResearch/hermes-agent (254,120 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 5,535 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-16.

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