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.
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 NousResearch/hermes-agent --skill baoyu-article-illustratorgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NousResearch/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/nousresearch/hermes-agent/baoyu-article-illustrator)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/baoyu-article-illustrator"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/baoyu-article-illustrator/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/baoyu-article-illustrator"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/baoyu-article-illustrator.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Snyk pass
- 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 | $0.00018 | $0.02449 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00980 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00490 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00245 |
Grade A, and why
baoyu-article-illustrator scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 16d 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
3. Download the returned URL to `{output-dir}/NN-{type}-{slug}.png` via `terminal` (e.g. `curl -sSL -o "{output-dir}/NN-{type}-{slug}.png" "{url}"`). Copies of this mod
8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- baoyu-article-illustrator — 100% identical, 4 lines differ
- baoyu-article-illustrator — 100% identical, 4 lines differ
- baoyu-article-illustrator — 100% identical, 4 lines differ
- baoyu-article-illustrator — 100% identical, 4 lines differ
- baoyu-article-illustrator — 100% identical, 4 lines differ
- baoyu-article-illustrator — 100% identical, 4 lines differ
- baoyu-article-illustrator — 100% identical, 4 lines differ
- baoyu-article-illustrator — 94% identical, 28 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 208 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Article Illustrator
Adapted from baoyu-article-illustrator for Hermes Agent's tool ecosystem.
Analyze articles, identify illustration positions, generate images with Type × Style × Palette consistency.
When to Use
Trigger this skill when the user asks to illustrate an article, add images to an article, generate illustrations for content, or uses phrases like "为文章配图", "illustrate article", or "add images". The user provides an article (file path or pasted content) and optionally specifies type, style, palette, or density.
Three Dimensions
| Dimension | Controls | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Information structure | infographic, scene, flowchart, comparison, framework, timeline |
| Style | Rendering approach | notion, warm, minimal, blueprint, watercolor, elegant |
| Palette | Color scheme (optional) | macaron, warm, neon — overrides style's default colors |
Combine freely: type=infographic, style=vector-illustration, palette=macaron.
Or use presets: edu-visual → type + style + palette in one shot. See style-presets.md.
Types
| Type | Best For |
|---|---|
infographic |
Data, metrics, technical |
scene |
Narratives, emotional |
flowchart |
Processes, workflows |
comparison |
Side-by-side, options |
framework |
Models, architecture |
timeline |
History, evolution |
Styles
See references/styles.md for Core Styles, the full gallery, and Type × Style compatibility.
Output Structure
{output-dir}/
├── source-{slug}.{ext} # Only for pasted content
├── outline.md
├── prompts/
│ └── NN-{type}-{slug}.md
└── NN-{type}-{slug}.png
Default output directory:
| Input | Output Directory | Markdown Insert Path |
|---|---|---|
| Article file path | {article-dir}/imgs/ |
imgs/NN-{type}-{slug}.png |
| Pasted content | illustrations/{topic-slug}/ (cwd) |
illustrations/{topic-slug}/NN-{type}-{slug}.png |
What ships with it
34 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.
- PORT_NOTES.md 3.3 KB
- prompts/system.md 1.0 KB
- references/palettes/macaron.md 1.3 KB
- references/palettes/mono-ink.md 1.7 KB
- references/palettes/neon.md 1.0 KB
- references/palettes/warm.md 1.0 KB
- references/prompt-construction.md 15 KB
- references/style-presets.md 4.7 KB
- references/styles.md 9.2 KB
- references/styles/blueprint.md 1.8 KB
- references/styles/chalkboard.md 2.2 KB
- references/styles/editorial.md 1.7 KB
- references/styles/elegant.md 1.7 KB
- references/styles/fantasy-animation.md 1.9 KB
- references/styles/flat-doodle.md 1.8 KB
- references/styles/flat.md 1.6 KB
- references/styles/ink-notes.md 4.2 KB
- references/styles/intuition-machine.md 1.8 KB
- references/styles/minimal.md 1.6 KB
- references/styles/nature.md 1.7 KB
- references/styles/notion.md 1.6 KB
- references/styles/pixel-art.md 1.9 KB
- references/styles/playful.md 1.7 KB
- references/styles/retro.md 1.6 KB
- references/styles/scientific.md 1.7 KB
- references/styles/screen-print.md 2.6 KB
- references/styles/sketch-notes.md 1.8 KB
- references/styles/sketch.md 1.7 KB
- references/styles/vector-illustration.md 1.9 KB
- references/styles/vintage.md 1.8 KB
- references/styles/warm.md 1.7 KB
- references/styles/watercolor.md 1.8 KB
- references/usage.md 1.8 KB
- references/workflow.md 13 KB
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.
- 16d ago Changed a35f48b18cc5
- 1mo ago First seen · 208 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 9de0861d5fe4
baoyu-article-illustrator is a skill published in the GitHub repository NousResearch/hermes-agent (254,120 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 2,449 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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