What is hermes-edu-skills?

Hermes Edu Skills is an open source pack of AI agent skills built for Chinese K-12 and family education. It gives an AI assistant, mainly the Hermes Agent, the specific knowledge it needs to work with Chinese textbook editions, grade levels, exam formats, and everyday study habits, things a general purpose AI tool usually does not understand well on its own. The project is not a simple collection of prompts. Each of its 170 skills is a structured package with its own trigger conditions, applicable roles, parameters, and usage boundaries, described in a standard SKILL.md file. This lets an agent discover and call the right skill automatically instead of relying on one long, vague instruction. The skills are grouped into nine categories covering things like syncing with a specific textbook, exam preparation, reviewing mistakes from homework or tests, daily short practice drills such as mental math or vocabulary, reading and writing help, family study support, and tools aimed at teachers such as lesson planning and class analysis. The skills are installed and managed through a command line tool run with npx. A user can install the full set of 170 skills, just one category, or a single named skill, and can also search or ask questions to find the right skill for a task. While Hermes Agent is the default target, the project can also export its skills to other AI coding and agent tools, including OpenClaw, Codex, Cursor, and Claude Code, so the same education knowledge can be reused elsewhere. The repository is maintained by a company called Shineway and is released under the MIT license, meaning it can be used freely, including commercially, as long as the copyright notice is kept. The project states it only contains public skill documentation, an index, and validation and export tooling, with no user data or backend service included. This makes it most useful for developers building Chinese education AI products, teachers, tutoring organizations, or families who want a local AI assistant that understands the Chinese school system. The full README is longer than what was shown.