neat sigil
Hey everyone, been working on something that might be useful for people who want to customize how their Hermes agent looks in the terminal.
hermes-theme-workshop — A repo with everything you need to set up a custom CLI skin, including a step-by-step recipe, updated skills, and tools for generating banner art.
What's included:
- hermes-cli-skin skill with all the pitfalls documented (trimEnd() drift fix, saturated color masking, YAML surgery rules, hard banner dimensions from banner.ts)
- img_to_braille.py — Converts any image to Braille art with per-cell color classification and a --validate-colors flag that catches invisible features (e.g. crimson red going silent under grayscale thresholding)
- image_to_hero.py — Classic ASCII ramp converter if you prefer that look
- A full working skin example
- 7-phase README with the exact prompt chain to feed your agent
Tested end to end with a subagent — it installed the skills, generated a silhouette in Braille, wrote the skin YAML, and verified it parsed cleanly.
https://github.com/H-Ali13381/hermes-theme-workshop
MIT licensed, PRs welcome — If you build a skin or hit new pitfalls drop them in examples/ or update the SKILL.md
