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 pptx-authorgit 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/pptx-author)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/pptx-author"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/pptx-author/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/pptx-author"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/pptx-author.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 | $0.00016 | $0.01582 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00633 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00316 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00158 |
Grade A, and why
pptx-author 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.
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
6 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- pptx-author — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- pptx-author — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- pptx-author — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- pptx-author — 95% identical, 2 lines differ
- pptx-author — 95% identical, 0 lines differ
- pptx-author — 95% identical, 2 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 174 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
pptx-author
Produce a .pptx file on disk using python-pptx. Use when you need to deliver a deck as a file artifact, not drive a live PowerPoint session.
Adapted from Anthropic's pptx-author and pitch-deck skills in anthropics/financial-services. The MCP / Office-JS branches of the originals are dropped — this assumes headless Python.
For the broader, already-shipped PowerPoint authoring skill (slides, speaker notes, embeds, media), see the built-in powerpoint skill. This skill is a lighter-weight pattern tuned for model-backed decks (pitch decks, IC memos, earnings notes) where every number must trace to a source workbook.
Output contract
- Write to
./out/<name>.pptx. Create./out/if it does not exist. - Return the relative path in your final message.
Setup
pip install "python-pptx>=0.6"
Core conventions
One idea per slide
Title states the takeaway; body supports it. A slide titled "Q3 Revenue" is weak; "Revenue growth accelerated to 14% Y/Y in Q3" is strong.
Every number traces to the model
If a figure on a slide came from ./out/model.xlsx, footnote the sheet and cell.
Revenue: $1,250M (Source: model.xlsx, Inputs!C3)
Never transcribe numbers from memory or from a summary — open the workbook, read the named range, and bind the deck value to it programmatically when you can.
Use the firm template when one is mounted
If ./templates/firm-template.pptx exists, load it so the deck inherits branded colors, fonts, and master layouts.
from pptx import Presentation
from pathlib import Path
template = Path("./templates/firm-template.pptx")
prs = Presentation(str(template)) if template.exists() else Presentation()
Charts: PNG-from-model beats native pptx charts
When fidelity matters (the model's chart styling must match the deck exactly), render the chart to PNG from the source workbook and embed the image. Native pptx.chart charts are fragile and often don't match firm conventions.
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 · 174 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 800c8ab3e98d
pptx-author is a skill published in the GitHub repository NousResearch/hermes-agent (257,063 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 1,582 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 2026-08-30.
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pptx
Use this skill any time a .pptx or .potx file is involved in any way — as input, output, or both. This includes: creating slide decks, pitch decks, or presentations as PowerPoint (.pptx) files; reading, parsing, or extracting text from any .pptx or .potx file (even if the extracted content will be used elsewhere, like…
library
Use ChatGPT Library when the user mentions their Library, asks to find or work with a Library-backed file, Site, or named file that may be in the Library, or wants to organize Library folders, restore a previous version, or share a native Library file or folder. Also use it when the user wants a user-facing file or…
slides
How to fill and revise a deck made from the Slides appifact type.
save-as-pdf
Reformat the current HTML design into a paginated, paper-ready PDF. The "Instant" export already gives the user a PDF at the design's native pixel size — this path is for when they want real pages.
docx
Use this skill whenever the user wants to create, read, edit, or manipulate Word documents (.docx) or Word templates (.dotx). Triggers include: any mention of Microsoft Word Documents, such as 'Word doc', 'word document', '.docx', '.dotx', 'microsoft doc'. Also use when extracting or reorganizing content from .docx or…
Use this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with PDF files. This includes reading or extracting text/tables from PDFs, combining or merging multiple PDFs into one, splitting PDFs apart, rotating pages, adding watermarks, creating new PDFs, filling PDF forms, encrypting/decrypting PDFs, extracting images, and…