You Don't Have to Learn Hermes From Scratch — I Brought My Existing Skills In

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge: Write About Hermes Agent

I Didn't Start With Hermes

Six months ago I started building a set of agent skills and personas for how I build software. Not generic prompts — opinionated role files. A /backend-architect that owns schema and recommendation logic. A /test-engineer that writes Vitest coverage and flags weak acceptance criteria. A /project-manager that maintains planning docs and closes iterations cleanly.

These roles have evolved across multiple projects. They have layering rules, discovery checklists, inheritance from a base engineering discipline file. They produce consistent, reviewable work because they're scoped — the backend architect doesn't touch test files, the test engineer doesn't redesign the schema, each persona has a defined mandate and exits cleanly.

When I heard about Hermes Agent, my first instinct wasn't "let me learn a new system." It was: can I run my existing system inside this?