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Hermes History Ingest skill

hermes-history-ingestAr9av/obsidian-wiki.skills/hermes-history-ingest/SKILL.md

Ingest Hermes agent history into Obsidian as distilled knowledge. Use for importing or mining ~/.hermes sessions, memories, or logs; use wiki-agent for targeted topic-only cross-agent recall.

3.6kMIT

always on

45 tokname + description

once used

2,048 tokSKILL.md body

bundled files

13 KB

repo stars

3.6kGitHub

Install the Hermes History Ingest skill

Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)

npx skills add https://github.com/Ar9av/obsidian-wiki --skill hermes-history-ingest

Claude Code, by hand (all projects)

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ar9av/obsidian-wiki.git /tmp/obsidian-wiki
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/obsidian-wiki/.skills/hermes-history-ingest ~/.claude/skills/hermes-history-ingest

For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.

What it costs your context

Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.

WhenWhat loadsCost
Every sessionName and description45 tok
When the agent uses itThe SKILL.md instructions2,048 tok
Only if opened1 bundled files (3 KB)varies

Until it is used, hermes-history-ingest costs about 30× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,363 tokens on every turn). Installing all 40 skills from Ar9av/obsidian-wiki would load 1,925 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study

Checks

Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.

Checked 2026-10-22 · method

What's inside

The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.

  • Hermes History Ingest — Conversation & Memory Mining
  • Before You Start
  • Ingest Modes
  • Append Mode (default)
  • Full Mode
  • Hermes Data Layout
  • Key data sources ranked by value
  • Step 1: Survey and Compute Delta
  • Step 2: Parse Memories First
  • Step 3: Parse Session JSONL Safely
  • Extraction rules
  • Critical privacy filter
  • Step 4: Cluster by Topic
  • Step 5: Distill into Wiki Pages
  • Writing rules
  • Step 6: Update Manifest, Log, and Index
  • Update .manifest.json
  • Update special files
  • Privacy and Compliance
  • Reference
  • QMD Refresh After Vault Writes

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    Find and add missing cross-references between wiki pages. Use when pages are disconnected or after large ingestion. This modifies pages to add links; use wiki-lint for report-oriented structural auditing.

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    Run or configure the daily wiki maintenance cycle: check source freshness, refresh the index and hot.md, and manage its scheduled 9 AM launchd/systemd/cron reminder. Use for daily or morning wiki refresh or scheduler setup and verification.

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    Configure Obsidian graph colors by tag, folder, category, or visibility by updating .obsidian/graph.json. Use for graph colorization; preserve other graph settings and back up before changes.

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    Independently check whether an implementation matches its stated goal and return PASS/WARN/FAIL with actionable issues. Use for second-opinion validation of an implementation or generated output.

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