Persistent auto-load via config

From Official Docs · September 25, 2026

To have the same skills active at the start of every new session - CLI, TUI, gateway, cron and API sessions alike - set skills.auto_load in config.yaml : Each entry is a skill name. The list is resolved once when a session's system prompt is first built and the rendered bytes are reused for the life of the conversation (model switches, compression), so prompt caching stays intact; config edits take effect in the next session. Missing or disabled skills log a warning and are skipped. -s names that overlap the list are loaded once. --ignore-rules (equivalently HERMES_IGNORE_RULES=1 ) skips auto-load together with AGENTS.md, SOUL.md, .cursorrules and memory injection; explicit -s skills still load. The setting is profile-scoped: each profile's config.yaml controls its own list.

From the official Hermes Agent documentation.

skills:
  auto_load:
    - hermes-agent-dev
    - github-pr-workflow

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