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 rss-feedsgit 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/rss-feeds)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/rss-feeds"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/rss-feeds/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/rss-feeds"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/rss-feeds.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.01178 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00589 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00004 | $0.00236 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00118 |
Grade A, and why
rss-feeds 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 5d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
RSS Feeds Skill
Reads any RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0/RDF, Atom, or JSON Feed URL into a clean, date-sorted list of
entries, and discovers the feed behind an ordinary page URL (<link rel="alternate"> or
the usual /feed, /rss.xml, /atom.xml paths). Standard library only, nothing to
install. It does not fetch full article bodies — pass an entry's link to web_extract for
that.
When to Use
- "What's new on <blog/site>", "latest releases of ", "recent posts in ", "read this feed", "does this site have an RSS feed".
- Building a recurring digest with
cronjob_manage(feeds are cheaper and more stable than scraping the HTML front page every run). For a persistent read/unread database across many feeds install the optionalblogwatcherskill; this skill is the zero-install read. - Anything where a structured list of
title / link / date / author / summarybeats a rendered page: podcasts, changelogs, YouTube channels, newsrooms, forum categories.
Prerequisites
None. Python 3.10+, network access to the feed host.
How to Run
Run through terminal with the skill-relative script path:
python3 scripts/feed.py read https://hnrss.org/frontpage --limit 10
python3 scripts/feed.py read https://simonwillison.net/ # page URL → discovers the feed
python3 scripts/feed.py read URL --since 2026-09-01 --json # only newer entries, machine-readable
python3 scripts/feed.py discover https://example.com/ # list candidate feed URLs
Quick Reference
| Source | Feed URL pattern |
|---|---|
| GitHub releases / commits / tags | https://github.com/OWNER/REPO/releases.atom, …/commits/BRANCH.atom, …/tags.atom |
| Subreddit / Reddit search | https://www.reddit.com/r/NAME/.rss, https://www.reddit.com/search.rss?q=… (1 req/min anon; see reddit-reading) |
| YouTube channel | https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC… |
| Hacker News | https://hnrss.org/frontpage, https://hnrss.org/newest?q=TERM |
| arXiv category | https://rss.arxiv.org/rss/cs.CL |
| Substack / Medium / WordPress / Ghost | SITE/feed, medium.com/feed/@user, SITE/rss/ |
| Podcasts | the show's RSS URL from its hosting page (discover finds it) |
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.
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 97 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A bdd3a7c1005c
rss-feeds is a skill published in the GitHub repository NousResearch/hermes-agent (244,603 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 1,178 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 2026-09-07.
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