Profile Craft
Generates and validates installable Hermes Agent profile repos
Test report
- Verdict
- Works with setup
- Score
- Tested
- Aug 7, 2026
- Environment
- Claude Code 2.x (agent harness)
Built the same CSV-cleanup agent profile twice and ran the repo's own validator over both: the hand-written version was six files and failed on a missing AGENTS.md, while the generator produced a 47-file distribution — CI workflow, release guard, SECURITY.md, template lineage, the preserved profile prompt — that validated on the first try. The oracle is weaker than it looks, though: dropping a one-line AGENTS.md stub into the hand-written version made it pass too. The generated repo also carries about ten files copied verbatim from the template that have nothing to do with the profile, including a launch kit, a contributor backlog and a git-history purge script, and it leaves skills/ empty and mcp.json blank despite the skill promising skills and MCP stubs. Setup rather than pass because the shipped skill folder is only SKILL.md while its workflow calls scripts/ and templates/ at the repo root, so a plain copy leaves every step pointing at nothing, and the final install step needs a hermes binary that is not on this machine.
Scored on four weighted criteria — install, triggering, output vs. baseline, docs. How scoring works
- Installs cleanly 4/5
- Triggers reliably 5/5
- Output vs. baseline 7/10
- Docs & honesty 3/5
What Profile Craft does
Turns a described agent into a Hermes Agent profile distribution — SOUL.md, distribution.yaml, config, .env.EXAMPLE, docs, CI and release checks — by writing a params YAML and running the repo's generator and validator. Triggers when building, reviewing or release-checking a Hermes profile repo. Aimed at the Hermes runtime rather than Claude Code, and the shipped skill folder is not self-contained.
How to install Profile Craft
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codegraphtheory/hermes-profile-template.git
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/profile-craft
cd hermes-profile-template && cp -r scripts templates docs examples CHANGELOG.md CONTRIBUTING.md SECURITY.md Makefile requirements.txt LICENSE README.md ~/.claude/skills/profile-craft/ && cp skills/profile-craft/SKILL.md ~/.claude/skills/profile-craft/SKILL.md
Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/
(per-project). Restart Claude Code after installing.
Commands — how to trigger Profile Craft
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/profile-craftGenerates and validates installable Hermes Agent profile repos
It also activates on plain-language prompts like these:
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Generate a Hermes Agent profile repo for a CSV cleaning reviewer -
Validate this Hermes profile distribution before we release it -
Scaffold SOUL.md and distribution.yaml for a new Hermes agent
Frequently asked questions
- Is the Profile Craft skill free?
- Yes. The skill itself is free from codegraphtheory/hermes-profile-template. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.
- Does Profile Craft work with Claude Code?
- We tested it with Claude Code 2.x (agent harness) on Aug 7, 2026. Verdict: Works with setup. Built the same CSV-cleanup agent profile twice and ran the repo's own validator over both: the hand-written version was six files and failed on a missing AGENTS.md, while the generator produced a 47-file distribution — CI workflow, release guard, SECURITY.md, template lineage, the preserved profile prompt — that validated on the first try. The oracle is weaker than it looks, though: dropping a one-line AGENTS.md stub into the hand-written version made it pass too. The generated repo also carries about ten files copied verbatim from the template that have nothing to do with the profile, including a launch kit, a contributor backlog and a git-history purge script, and it leaves skills/ empty and mcp.json blank despite the skill promising skills and MCP stubs. Setup rather than pass because the shipped skill folder is only SKILL.md while its workflow calls scripts/ and templates/ at the repo root, so a plain copy leaves every step pointing at nothing, and the final install step needs a hermes binary that is not on this machine.
- What is the Profile Craft SkillProof Score?
- 7.6/10 — installs cleanly 4/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 7/10, docs & honesty 3/5.
- How do I install Profile Craft?
- Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.
- Can I use Profile Craft with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?
- The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.