The 15 most-starred skills for Hermes Agent, checked one by one

On September 30, 2026 the X account HermesWatcher posted a list it presented as the 15 skills with the most GitHub stars for Hermes Agent. By the morning of October 1 the post had 2,708 bookmarks, the most of the 190 OpenClaw and Hermes Agent posts in OneClickClaw's own morning reading. OneClickClaw opened all 15 projects: the order holds, the 15 together carry about 1.25 million stars and 14 of 15 contain the file both agents' docs name.

What was checked

A skill is a folder of plain-text instructions an AI agent reads when a task calls for it. These 15 live on GitHub, the public site where software is shared and each user can give a project one star, a public bookmark that works as a vote; the list is sorted by that count.

For each, OneClickClaw read GitHub's public records on October 1, 2026: that the project exists and is public, its stars, its licence, whether its files include one named SKILL.md, and its own description. SKILL.md is the one text file that tells the agent what the skill is and when to use it. None of the 15 was installed into Hermes Agent or OpenClaw and none was run.

What the check found

All 15 exist and are public, none is archived, and the order in the post matches the real star order from 1 to 15, according to the records read on October 1, 2026. The first holds about 48 times the stars of the last.

Fourteen contain at least one SKILL.md. The exception is number 4, Graphify by Graphify Labs: its skill file carries the lowercase name skill.md inside the project folder, and no file with the exact uppercase name appears among its files. Both agents' docs name the file SKILL.md. Whether either agent accepts the lowercase name was untested.

A licence says what others may do with the code. GitHub records MIT, a short licence allowing almost any use with credit, for ten of the 15, and Apache 2.0, a longer licence of the same open kind, for three. OpenMontage uses AGPL 3.0, which asks anyone who changes the software and offers it over a network to publish the changes. Anthropic's collection carries no single licence: its README, the note a project shows first, says many of its skills are open source under Apache 2.0, free to read, use and change, and that its four document skills are source-available, meant to be read as a reference, under their own licence file.

The 15, in star order

Four build software: Superpowers, Graphify, Archify and UI UX Pro Max. Three shape how the agent remembers, plans and answers: claude-mem, Planning with Files and I Have ADHD. Five serve research, writing and media: last30days, Humanizer, Marketing Skills, OpenMontage and the BrowserAct collection. Three are about skills themselves: SkillSpector checks them, Skill Seekers makes them, Anthropic's collection includes a folder on building them. Descriptions are the makers' own.

No.	Skill	Maker	What it does	Licence	Stars, Oct 1, 2026
1	Superpowers	developer	a method for building software	MIT	293,554
2	Anthropic's skills collection	Anthropic	19 folders, documents to skill building	none, see above	179,214
3	UI UX Pro Max	Next Level Builder	design guidance for screens	MIT	132,096
4	Graphify	Graphify Labs	maps how a project's files connect	Apache 2.0	122,862
5	claude-mem	developer	memory across sessions	Apache 2.0	95,040
6	Archify	developer	architecture diagrams as one web page	MIT	75,401
7	last30days	developer	research across Reddit, X, YouTube, Hacker News, the web	MIT	63,293
8	OpenMontage	developer	video production, 12 pipelines	AGPL 3.0	62,049
9	Humanizer	developer	removes signs of machine writing	MIT	53,193
10	I Have ADHD	developer	answer first, easy to follow	MIT	52,488
11	Marketing Skills	developer	conversion, copy, search, analytics	MIT	52,049
12	Planning with Files	developer	task plans kept in files	MIT	27,216
13	SkillSpector	NVIDIA	scans skills for risky patterns	Apache 2.0	18,833
14	Skill Seekers	developer	turns docs, code and PDFs into skills	MIT	15,069
15	BrowserAct skills	BrowserAct	browser automation	MIT	6,062

A shared format, written mostly for other agents

Two entries come from Anthropic and NVIDIA, three from other organisation accounts and ten from personal accounts, per GitHub's owner records. The makers' descriptions mostly name other agents, coding assistants above all; only claude-mem's lists OpenClaw and Hermes Agent among the agents it works with. These are general skills in a shared open format.

That format is the Agent Skills specification: a folder holding a SKILL.md with a short header of name and description. The Hermes Agent documentation, read on October 1, 2026, describes its skills as compatible with that standard, lists Anthropic's collection among the collections it subscribes to by default, and says every skill installed through its hub passes a security scanner for data leaving the machine, hidden instructions, destructive commands and supply-chain signals, meaning tampered parts pulled in from elsewhere. The OpenClaw documentation says OpenClaw follows the same standard, installs skills from its catalogue ClawHub or straight from a project's code folder, and tells users to treat third-party skills as untrusted code and read them before switching them on.

A skill works only while the agent runs

The Hermes Agent documentation describes skills as knowledge documents the agent loads only when a task needs them, so a skill helps only while the agent is running. OneClickClaw hosts Hermes Agent and OpenClaw on a private server that stays on, Starter plan at EUR 14.99 per month with a seven-day free trial, at oneclickclaw.io/hermes. OneClickClaw has not tested the 15 on its servers.