| name | mda-compat-hermes |
| description | MDA compatibility demonstration skill for Hermes Agent. Compiled from compat/hermes/source.mda. Loading this skill confirms that an MDA-emitted SKILL.md is discovered, parsed, and listed by Hermes Agent under its `~/.hermes/skills/<category>/<name>/SKILL.md` layout. |
| metadata | {"mda":{"doc-id":"4a9e7c12-5b83-4d6f-a1c8-7e2f9b4d5c6a","title":"MDA Compat Demo (Hermes Agent)","version":"1.0.0","tags":["compat","demo","hermes"]},"hermes":{"tags":["Compat","MDA","Demo"],"related_skills":["hermes-agent"]}} |
| integrity | {"algorithm":"sha256","digest":"sha256:db1e71f8026d810ccb3464dc0d7841e08b13ea87d85eb4c23de797109d795c4d"} |
MDA Compat Demo (Hermes Agent)
This skill exists to verify Hermes Agent SKILL.md compatibility from an MDA-compiled output.
Three things are true if Hermes discovers and loads this skill:
- The compiled
SKILL.md parses under Hermes Agent's loader.
- The frontmatter
name matches the package directory name (spec §06-2.1).
- The agentskills.io v1 envelope subset survives the round-trip from
.mda source to compiled output to Hermes' skill registry; the reserved metadata.hermes.* namespace passes through verbatim for Hermes' own consumption.
Source: compat/hermes/source.mda. Compile: mda compile compat/hermes/source.mda --target SKILL.md --out-dir compat/hermes/build --integrity.
What this does NOT prove:
- That Hermes parses MDA-extended frontmatter under
metadata.mda.* (we do not require it).
- That signatures or integrity digests are verified at load time (no current runtime does that).
- That MDA v1.0 can author Hermes-specific top-level fields (
version, author) that some existing Hermes skills carry at top level rather than under metadata.mda.*. Those are out of MDA v1.0 scope under §06-3.4, symmetric with the Claude Code runtime-fields gap.
