Skills Development MDA Compatibility Demo for Hermes Agent

MDA Compatibility Demo for Hermes Agent

v20260526
mda-compat-hermes
This skill serves as a compatibility demonstration to verify that the Hermes Agent can successfully parse and load an SKILL.md file generated from an MDA source. It confirms that the compiled structure, including specific frontmatter and reserved metadata namespaces, survives the round-trip compilation process, ensuring structural integrity for the agent's skill registry.
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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:

  1. The compiled SKILL.md parses under Hermes Agent's loader.
  2. The frontmatter name matches the package directory name (spec §06-2.1).
  3. 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.
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Category Development
Name mda-compat-hermes
Version v20260526
Size 1.86KB
Updated At 2026-06-02
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