choose-hermes-agent-workflowlisted
Install: claude install-skill gaelic-ghost/socket
# Choose Hermes Agent Workflow
Classify the requested outcome before opening broad documentation or changing configuration.
## Route the Request
| Requested outcome | Use |
| --- | --- |
| Install, update, configure, run, secure, troubleshoot, or use Hermes | `operate-hermes-agent` |
| Create skills, plugins, providers, tools, hooks, desktop/dashboard extensions, or programmatic integrations | `build-hermes-agent-extensions` |
| Run Hermes inside Zed, Xcode, or another ACP client | `operate-acp-agent-integration` plus the client-owning workflow |
| Let Hermes discover, call, or be called by an independently operated peer agent | `operate-a2a-agent-integration` plus gateway operation for inbound service lifecycle |
| Decide between ACP, MCP, TUI gateway, API, terminal, or native host integration | `choose-agent-integration-protocol` |
| Run a messaging gateway, API server, webhook intake, messaging platform, or long-lived remote agent | `operate-hermes-agent-gateway` |
| Use Nous Portal, Tool Gateway, Nous Chat, subscription proxy, or Hermes Cloud | `use-nous-research-services` |
| Export Socket skills, translate Socket MCP, or classify Codex-to-Hermes portability | `hermes-agent-compatibility` |
Use more than one workflow when the request genuinely crosses boundaries. Keep one workflow in charge of each write surface.
## Keep the Three Gateway Terms Separate
- `Hermes messaging gateway`: the long-running Hermes process that connects messaging platforms, webhooks, and th