| name | wiki-media-ingestion |
| description | Ingest media sources into a Hermes LLM Wiki: PDFs, images, audio, video, YouTube links, and social posts — derived artifacts, provenance manifests, two-tier storage, and per-modality protocols. |
| version | 0.1.0 |
| license | MIT |
| metadata | {"hermes":{"tags":["Wiki","Ingestion","Media","Knowledge"],"related_skills":["wiki-ingestion","wiki-writing"]}} |
Hermes Wiki Media Ingestion
Default media skill for Hermes LLM Wikis (override with
hermes wiki skills set media <skill-name>). Text sources are covered by
wiki:wiki-ingestion; this skill covers everything else. Load only the
modality reference you need:
Shared conventions (all modalities)
- Derived artifacts live in
derived/<modality>/<source-stem>/ next to a
manifest.json recording tool, version, model identity, and the input's
sha256. Manifests are written by processors — never edit them by hand.
- Two-tier storage: media ≤50MB snapshots into
raw/ (git-tracked).
Larger media (≤2GB) is processed with the original kept gitignored under
raw/large/ and sha-pinned in the manifest (wiki.media.keep_originals:
local default | none | all). The derived artifacts are the durable
evidence for large media.
- Provenance anchors: cite into media via the derived artifacts' stable
headings —
## [00:12:34] Speaker A in transcripts, ## Page 12 in PDF
extractions, timecoded keyframe filenames. Citations stay ordinary relative
links: ([source @ 12:34](../derived/audio/<id>/transcript.md#001234-speaker-a)).
- Missing dependencies: ingestion never crashes on absent tools. Items are
retained with a
needs-deps: status naming the extras to install (e.g.
hermes-wiki[audio], brew install ffmpeg). Install, then re-process.
- Interpretation is yours: extraction (transcripts, page text, keyframes)
comes from version-stamped processors; captions, syntheses, and
contradiction handling follow the
wiki:wiki-writing protocol and are
attributed to you.
Pitfalls
- Never write into
derived/ or raw/large/ by hand.
- Never store YouTube audiovisual content or captions beyond what
references/youtube.md permits for the wiki's
configured mode.
- A media source page without extraction yet ("Binary media Source Snapshot")
is valid — extend it after the modality processor or your own analysis runs.
