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 competitor-news-monitorgit 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/competitor-news-monitor)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/competitor-news-monitor"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/competitor-news-monitor/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/competitor-news-monitor"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/competitor-news-monitor.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Snyk warn
- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Rogue Agent · line 22 Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 | $0.00016 | $0.00980 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00490 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00003 | $0.00196 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00098 |
Grade A, and why
competitor-news-monitor 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.
Copies of this mod
2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- competitor-news-monitor — 100% identical, 4 lines differ
- competitor-news-monitor — 100% identical, 4 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Competitor News Monitor
Track a declared company set and report only material, new developments with primary-source evidence. This is not a generic page-diff watcher: it applies company-news categories, source hierarchy, event deduplication, and business significance. Setup runs once in the foreground; the recurring check runs as a cronjob tick (the competitor-watch automation blueprint scaffolds this).
When to Use
- "Monitor these competitors weekly."
- "Tell me when Company X changes pricing or launches a product."
- "Create a competitor intelligence digest."
- "Track funding, partnerships, executive moves, and incidents."
- A cron tick fires for an existing competitor watch (steps 3-6).
Don't use for: one-off company research (use web_search/web_extract directly) or plain feed reading (blogwatcher).
Procedure — Setup (foreground, once)
1. Freeze the watchlist
Record canonical company names, domains, products, aliases, geography/language, event categories, cadence, audience, and materiality threshold. Done when a candidate article can be accepted or rejected consistently.
2. Build source coverage, then schedule
For each company include, where available:
- official newsroom/blog and changelog
- pricing/product pages
- regulatory filings and investor relations
- status/security pages
- reputable trade and financial press
- job postings as weak supporting evidence
Use rss-feeds (optional) or blogwatcher (optional, stateful) for feeds, reddit-reading for community discussion, and web_search/web_extract for pages. Write the watch contract (watchlist, categories, materiality threshold, last cutoff) to a state file under ~/.hermes/competitor-watches/<watch-slug>.json, then create the job:
cronjob(action="create",
schedule="every monday 9am",
prompt="Load the competitor-news-monitor skill and run the tick for the watch contract at ~/.hermes/competitor-watches/<watch-slug>.json.",
deliver=<user's destination>)
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 Changed d8fd2a3a26ff
- 5d ago Changed fd1ebb94e74a
- 9d ago First seen · 89 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A bcc92cdcb481
competitor-news-monitor is a skill published in the GitHub repository NousResearch/hermes-agent (244,603 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 980 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 2026-09-03.
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