Add research-radar skill for autonomous research briefings

[AtakanGs]

This PR introduces a new Hermes skill called research-radar.

The skill monitors topics across public sources, extracts high-signal developments, and generates structured research briefings in Markdown.

Core skill features:

• autonomous research signal gathering
• multi-source workflow
• trend extraction and analysis
• structured Markdown briefing output
• standardized report template
• testing reference for manual verification
• Hermes cron compatibility
• versioned outputs
• change-detection support via What Changed Since Last Run

Example use case:
Generate a recurring briefing about a topic such as AI coding agents and save it as a dated Markdown report.

This skill was developed as part of the Hermes Agent Hackathon.

How to test:

1. Start Hermes CLI
2. Invoke the research-radar skill
3. Generate a briefing for a topic such as "AI coding agents"
4. Confirm the Markdown report is created successfully
5. Run the skill again for the same topic with a dated filename
6. Confirm the newer report can include What Changed Since Last Run
7. Optionally schedule the workflow via Hermes cron

Example output files:

• ai_agents_briefing.md
• ai_agents_briefing_YYYY-MM-DD.md
• ai_agents_briefing_YYYY-MM-DD_v2.md
• ai_agents_briefing_YYYY-MM-DD_v3.md

Further product/system layer built on top of the skill:

• topic-specific report workflows
• direct Telegram delivery
• lightweight Telegram interaction
• Telegram-based watchlist management
• per-topic history / archive
• run summaries and workflow logging
• run transparency / metadata blocks
• executive cross-topic summary delivery

This demonstrates that research-radar can function not only as a reusable Hermes skill, but also as the backbone of an interactive multi-topic intelligence workflow.

[AtakanGs]

Tested manually on Windows (WSL Ubuntu).

How to test:

Start Hermes

Invoke the research-radar skill

Generate a briefing for a topic like AI coding agents

Confirm the Markdown output is written successfully

Confirm dated output filenames are created as expected

Example output:

ai_agents_briefing.md

ai_agents_briefing_2026-03-06.md

[AtakanGs]

This skill was demonstrated in a working Hermes setup (WSL Ubuntu).

Demo workflow:

1. Start Hermes
2. Run the research-radar skill
3. Generate a briefing for a topic (e.g. AI coding agents)
4. Confirm Markdown report output
5. Optional: schedule via Hermes cron

Example output files:

• ai_agents_briefing.md
• ai_agents_briefing_YYYY-MM-DD.md

[teknium1]

Hey @AtakanGs, thanks for the submission and for participating in the hackathon! 🎉

We're not going to merge this as a bundled skill — bundled skills ship with every Hermes install and need to be broadly useful to most users. This one is more of a prompt template (no code/scripts, and it artificially restricts the agent from using web_search which is actually one of its core tools for research). The agent can already produce structured research briefings when asked directly.

That said, this would work great as a community hub skill! Hermes has a Skills Hub system designed exactly for this. Here's how to publish it:

Option 1: Publish to a GitHub repo (recommended)

# Create a GitHub repo for your skills (e.g. AtakanGs/hermes-skills)
# Then publish directly from the CLI:
hermes skills publish skills/research/research-radar --to github --repo AtakanGs/hermes-skills

Other users can then install it with:

hermes skills tap add AtakanGs/hermes-skills
hermes skills install research-radar

Option 2: Local skill
Any user can drop your skill folder into their ~/.hermes/skills/ directory and it works immediately — no PR needed.

Tips to make it better:

• Remove the "Do not rely on unavailable tools such as web_search" restriction — web_search and web_extract are core Hermes tools and would make this skill much more powerful
• Consider adding actual scripts (e.g., a Python script that queries APIs and formats results) rather than just prompting the agent

Check out the docs on publishing skills: https://hermes.nousresearch.com/docs/developer-guide/creating-skills

Thanks again for contributing!