Open Source · Hermes Agent Skill

Skill Health Check
for Hermes Agent

A ready-to-use Hermes Agent skill that lets your agent automatically audit, score, and recommend improvements for your entire skill library — no manual configuration needed.

Skill Auditing Health Scoring Duplicate Detection Governance
Why You Need This

Your Agent's Skill Library Deserves Better

As your agent accumulates skills over time, keeping track of quality, redundancy, and usage becomes impossible manually.

❌ Without Skill Health Check

  • Duplicate skills silently waste agent context
  • Bloated packages slow down classification
  • Unused skills consume resources unnoticed
  • No visibility into library health or quality
  • Manual audits take hours of tedious work

✅ With Skill Health Check

  • One command triggers a full library audit
  • Automated health scoring across 4 dimensions
  • Instant duplicate & overlap detection
  • Actionable governance recommendations
  • Runtime usage analytics built in
Capabilities

Everything in One Skill

📊

Health Score

Overall score from 0–100 across Structure, Maintainability, Reusability, and Duplication.

🔍

Duplicate Detection

Semantic analysis and cosine similarity clustering finds overlapping skills instantly.

⚠️

Risk Alerts

Identifies monolithic packages, reference bloat, and category concentration risks.

📦

Package Analysis

Understands skill distribution across categories, asset types, and package complexity.

🧠

Runtime Governance

Tracks which skills are actually used, unused, and high-cost candidates for archival.

💡

Smart Recommendations

Generates actionable suggestions: split, merge, reduce, or remove based on your data.

Getting Started

Three Simple Steps

Step 1 — Install the Skill

Clone the awesome-hermes-skills repository and copy the skill into your Hermes Agent skills directory:

git clone https://github.com/johnsonbuilds/awesome-hermes-skills.git cp -r awesome-hermes-skills/governance/skill-health-check ~/.hermes/profiles/default/skills/

Ensure skill-inspector is installed

The skill depends on the skill-inspector CLI:

pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/johnsonbuilds/skill-inspector.git

Talk to your agent

Simply ask your Hermes Agent in natural language:

"Check the health of my skill library" "Find duplicate skills in my library" "Show me unused high-cost skills"

Review the report

Your agent will run the audit, generate a comprehensive report, and send it to you — ready for action.

Reference

Available Commands

scan-packages

Full scan with package analysis, duplicate detection, and governance recommendations.

skill-inspector scan-packages \
--data-dir /opt/data \
--output report.md \
--duplicate-threshold 0.82

health

Quick health report focusing on structure, maintainability, and duplication scores.

skill-inspector health \
--data-dir /opt/data \
--output health.md
Why Hermes Agent Cloud

Zero Setup. Full Power.

Don't want to install anything manually? Hermes Agent Cloud comes with Skill Inspector pre-installed — just tell your agent to check skill health and it's done.

Open Source

Built for the Community, by the Community

Skill Health Check is open source and part of the awesome-hermes-skills collection. We welcome contributions, issues, and feature requests.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Skill Health Check?

Skill Health Check is a Hermes Agent skill that enables your agent to automatically audit, score, and recommend improvements for your skill library. It wraps the skill-inspector CLI behind a natural language interface.

How do I install it?

Clone the awesome-hermes-skills repo and copy the skill into your Hermes Agent's skills directory. See the GitHub repository for full installation instructions.

Do I need a server to run it?

Not if you use Hermes Agent Cloud — Skill Inspector is pre-installed and runs automatically. For self-hosted setups, install via pip and run locally.

Is it free and open source?

Yes. Skill Health Check is Apache License 2.0 and available on GitHub.

Ready to Audit Your Skill Library?

Get started today — install the skill or try it free on Hermes Agent Cloud.