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WOWHOW FIELD NOTES · № 069TUE, MAY 19, 2026 · PUNE ISTSHIPPED WEEKLY · 7:00 AM

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Auto-Porting Your CLAUDE.md Skills to Hermes Agent: The agentskills.io Open Standard Nobody Is Using Yet

Your CLAUDE.md is full of operational knowledge encoded as skills. Your Hermes Agent has its own skill format at ~/.hermes/skills/. The agentskills.io open standard that Hermes implements makes them structurally compatible — and almost nobody is using it. Here is the conversion script, 5 porting patterns, and the gotchas.

Anup Karanjkar

Founder · WOWHOW

Published

May 16, 2026

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14 min

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Claude Code · Hermes Agent · Agentskills Io

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WOWHOW / TUTORIALS2d ago

Your CLAUDE

⚡ 14 min— AK

We only write about what we deployed.We only link to what we bought.We name names when something sucks.

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Tutorials10 min

Claude Code's skillListingBudgetFraction: The Undocumented Setting Silently Killing Half Your Skills

There is an undocumented setting in Claude Code 2.1.129 called skillListingBudgetFraction that controls what percentage of the context window is allocated to skill listings each turn. The default is conservative — and if you have more than 15-20 skills installed, half of them are silently not loading.

AKAnup Karanjkar

2d ago

Tutorials16 min

I Built the Hermes + Claude Code Dual-Stack: Orchestrator Meets Coder — Here's the Full Architecture

Indie Hackers and browseract surfaced the framing — Hermes as orchestrator, Claude Code as coder. Nobody shipped a working architecture. Here is the complete dual-stack setup I run in production: VPS config, local config, MCP bridge, dispatch patterns, and the 6 workflows that justify the complexity.

AKAnup Karanjkar

2d ago

Tutorials16 min

I Keep Hermes Agent's Self-Improvement OFF For the First 14 Days — Here's What Happens When I Don't

I have published two articles praising Hermes Agent this week. This one is different. The self-improvement loop is too powerful to enable on day one. Three weeks ago I ignored my own rule on a fresh VPS — by day 14, eleven auto-generated skills had silently degraded my agent's output quality.

AKAnup Karanjkar

2d ago

Tutorials18 min

I Wired Claude Code Into Hermes Agent (And Hermes Into Claude Code): The Full Tool Gateway Reference

The Hermes Tool Gateway is the bidirectional MCP bridge that lets Hermes call external tools AND lets external agents call Hermes. Here are 12 working patterns, in increasing order of complexity, every config block verified against v0.13.0.

AKAnup Karanjkar

3d ago

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Auto-Porting Your CLAUDE.md Skills to Hermes Agent: The agentskills.io Open Standard Nobody Is Using Yet

Claude Code's skillListingBudgetFraction: The Undocumented Setting Silently Killing Half Your Skills

I Built the Hermes + Claude Code Dual-Stack: Orchestrator Meets Coder — Here's the Full Architecture

I Keep Hermes Agent's Self-Improvement OFF For the First 14 Days — Here's What Happens When I Don't

I Wired Claude Code Into Hermes Agent (And Hermes Into Claude Code): The Full Tool Gateway Reference

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