Skill Factory is a meta-skill for Nous Research's Hermes Agent that turns repeated workflows into reusable skills automatically. It runs silently in the background of every session, watching what the user does; when it detects a repeated pattern (say, the same environment-setup or PR-creation sequence), it interrupts with a proposal describing the detected workflow, a suggested name and category, and the steps it captured. On approval it generates two artifacts: a SKILL.md in Hermes' native skill format containing the AI instructions for the workflow, and a scaffolded plugin.py exposing a slash command that triggers it directly.
Beyond the automatic detection, a set of /skill-factory commands lets the user propose the top detected skill on demand, inspect the pattern queue, list skills generated in the session, and save proposals under custom names; natural-language requests like "save this as a skill" also work. The mechanism itself is two parts: the SKILL.md teaches the Hermes model how to observe, detect, and propose, while the plugin handles the commands and file generation. It requires Hermes Agent v2026.3 or later.
