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 songwriting-and-ai-musicgit 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/songwriting-and-ai-music)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/songwriting-and-ai-music"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/songwriting-and-ai-music/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/songwriting-and-ai-music"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/songwriting-and-ai-music.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- 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 | $0.00017 | $0.02831 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00009 | $0.01416 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00003 | $0.00566 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00283 |
Grade A, and why
songwriting-and-ai-music 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 9d 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
8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- songwriting-and-ai-music — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- songwriting-and-ai-music — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- songwriting-and-ai-music — 97% identical, 3 lines differ
- songwriting-and-ai-music — 91% identical, 34 lines differ
- songwriting-and-ai-music — 89% identical, 40 lines differ
- songwriting-and-ai-music — 89% identical, 21 lines differ
- songwriting-and-ai-music — 89% identical, 21 lines differ
- songwriting-and-ai-music — 89% identical, 21 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 309 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Songwriting & AI Music Generation
Everything here is a GUIDELINE, not a rule. Art breaks rules on purpose. Use what serves the song. Ignore what doesn't.
1. Song Structure (Pick One or Invent Your Own)
Common skeletons — mix, modify, or throw out as needed:
ABABCB Verse/Chorus/Verse/Chorus/Bridge/Chorus (most pop/rock)
AABA Verse/Verse/Bridge/Verse (refrain-based) (jazz standards, ballads)
ABAB Verse/Chorus alternating (simple, direct)
AAA Verse/Verse/Verse (strophic, no chorus) (folk, storytelling)
The six building blocks:
- Intro — set the mood, pull the listener in
- Verse — the story, the details, the world-building
- Pre-Chorus — optional tension ramp before the payoff
- Chorus — the emotional core, the part people remember
- Bridge — a detour, a shift in perspective or key
- Outro — the farewell, can echo or subvert the rest
You don't need all of these. Some great songs are just one section that evolves. Structure serves the emotion, not the other way around.
2. Rhyme, Meter, and Sound
RHYME TYPES (from tight to loose):
- Perfect: lean/mean
- Family: crate/braid
- Assonance: had/glass (same vowels, different endings)
- Consonance: scene/when (different vowels, similar endings)
- Near/slant: enough to suggest connection without locking it down
Mix them. All perfect rhymes can sound like a nursery rhyme. All slant rhymes can sound lazy. The blend is where it lives.
INTERNAL RHYME: Rhyming within a line, not just at the ends. "We pruned the lies from bleeding trees / Distilled the storm from entropy" — "lies/flies," "trees/entropy" create internal echoes.
METER: The rhythm of stressed vs unstressed syllables.
- Matching syllable counts between parallel lines helps singability
- The STRESSED syllables matter more than total count
- Say it out loud. If you stumble, the meter needs work.
- Intentionally breaking meter can create emphasis or surprise
3. Emotional Arc and Dynamics
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 309 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 5dbf92dc336e
songwriting-and-ai-music is a skill published in the GitHub repository NousResearch/hermes-agent (244,603 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 2,831 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.
Other skills, from other repositories
songwriting-and-ai-music
Songwriting craft and Suno AI music prompts.
songwriting-and-ai-music
Songwriting craft, AI music generation prompts (Suno focus), parody/adaptation techniques, phonetic tricks, and lessons learned. These are tools and ideas, not rules. Break any of them when the art calls for it.
songwriting-and-ai-music
Songwriting craft, AI music generation prompts (Suno focus), parody/adaptation techniques, phonetic tricks, and lessons learned. These are tools and ideas, not rules. Break any of them when the art calls for it.
songwriting-and-ai-music
Songwriting craft and Suno AI music prompts.
songwriting-and-ai-music
Songwriting craft, AI music generation prompts (Suno focus), parody/adaptation techniques, phonetic tricks, and lessons learned. These are tools and ideas, not rules. Break any of them when the art calls for it.
songwriting-and-ai-music
Songwriting craft and Suno AI music prompts.