Hermes, the open-source AI agent, has amassed over 134,000 GitHub stars. While the platform is known for serious productivity tools, three atypical skills showcase the creative potential of customizable AI agents.
Zoltar: A True Fortune Teller This skill is a full divination engine. It generates natal charts using the Swiss Ephemeris, offers daily horoscopes from the Ohmanda API, and performs structured tarot readings, I Ching coin casts, numerology calculations, and Elder Futhark rune casts. Every reading is based on verifiable astronomical data or traditional texts, not generic predictions.
Antiscammer: Turning the Tables on Fraudsters This skill combats scammers on WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord. It can flood a scammer's chat with the complete "Shrek" screenplay-3,679 lines-until they block you. Alternatively, for email scams, it generates verbose, overly bureaucratic replies designed to waste the scammer's time.
Book-Mirror: A Personal Reading Companion Based on a concept by Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan, this skill analyzes any book chapter by chapter. It provides a two-column breakdown: a detailed summary of the author's content, and a personalized application column mirroring the ideas to the user's own life, relationships, and experiences as stored in Hermes's memory.
These skills highlight the flexibility of AI agents when users can define their own applications, moving beyond provider-curated functionality.