On the 30th of September 2026 the X account HermesWatcher posted a list it presented as the 15 most-starred skills for Hermes Agent. By the morning of the 1st of October it had 2,708 bookmarks. A skill is a folder of plain-text instructions an AI agent reads when a task needs it. The reasons below are star counts as of the 1st of October 2026 and what each maker's own page says.

The 15, in star order

1. Superpowers

What it is: Superpowers is a set of skills plus a method for building software with an agent. The agent asks what the user wants, works in small steps and writes a test before the code.

Why it is popular: It holds 293,554 stars, the most of the 15, a star being one GitHub user's public bookmark. It has been on GitHub since October 2025. Its README, the note a project shows first, carries install steps for Hermes Agent.

2. Anthropic's skills collection

What it is: Anthropic's skills collection is the public skill set of Anthropic, maker of the Claude models.…