Hermes Update Doctor

by asimons81

Hermes Update Doctor is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by asimons81 in hermes-field-kit.

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Install Hermes Update Doctor

Copy Hermes Update Doctor into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/asimons81/hermes-field-kit/tree/main/skills/hermes-update-doctor ~/.claude/skills/hermes-update-doctor

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/asimons81/hermes-field-kit.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/hermes-update-doctor/SKILL.md in asimons81/hermes-field-kit
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/hermes-update-doctor
Collection: One of 16 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What Hermes Update Doctor does

Diagnose stuck, contradictory, or incomplete Hermes updates by inspecting Git state, processes, caches, and installed versions before recovery. Evidence-first, read-only by default.

Hermes Update Doctor is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Hermes Update Doctor comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agents, hermes-agent, open-source and python.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Hermes says it is behind but will not update.
Update says already current but the version is stale.
Another Hermes process is blocking the update.
Diagnose a failed Hermes update.

Counter-Triggers

Do not load this skill when:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Hermes Update Doctor

What else does asimons81 publish alongside Hermes Update Doctor?
Hermes Update Doctor is one of 16 skills that DirSkills catalogs from asimons81/hermes-field-kit, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Don't Lie to Me, Hermes Environment Migration and Hermes Field Kit. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Hermes Update Doctor does, and is maintained by asimons81 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the asimons81/hermes-field-kit page.
How does Hermes Update Doctor compare to other DevOps skills?
Hermes Update Doctor ranks #734 by stars among the 798 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Hermes Update Doctor against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.