Web Search

Real-time web search for Hermes agents via Tavily or Serper

Must-Have✓ SafeBeginnerv1.0.0
Last verified:2026-06-01

About

Gives your Hermes agent the ability to search the web in real time. Supports Tavily and Serper as backends. Ideal for research tasks, news monitoring, and fact-checking workflows.

Use Cases

  • Search the web for the latest news on a topic
  • Fact-check claims against live web results
  • Research competitors or market trends automatically

What Web Search can access

Moderate access

Skim the SKILL.md before installing, and check which credentials it asks for against what it actually claims to do.

  • Needs your credentials

    You must supply secrets for this skill to work. A skill with a valid key can do anything that key permits, so scope each one as narrowly as the provider allows and never reuse an admin key.

    Declares 1 required credential: TAVILY_API_KEY

  • Makes outbound network calls

    It contacts external services. Outbound calls are how data leaves your machine, so it is worth knowing where it connects.

    This skill's own description refers to "web"

These permissions are inferred from this listing — the credentials it declares, any maintainer warning, and the operations its own description mentions. ClawVault has not audited this skill's source code. Treat it as a starting point for your own review, not a substitute for one.

Installing Web Search on Hermes Agent

Hermes skills are on-demand knowledge documents stored in hermes/skills/, which is the single source of truth. Bundled skills are copied there on a fresh install, and hub-installed and agent-created skills land there too. Every installed skill automatically becomes a slash command, so a skill named plan is invoked with /plan.

  1. 1

    Search for the skill

    hermes skills search web-search

    Add --source to widen the search: official for curated skills, skills-sh for the public skills.sh directory, browse-sh for site-specific browser automation, or well-known to point Hermes at a site publishing its own skill index.

  2. 2

    Inspect it before installing

    hermes skills inspect official/<category>/web-search

    inspect shows the skill's contents and metadata. Use the fully qualified identifier that search returned, which includes its source and category.

  3. 3

    Install it

    hermes skills install official/<category>/web-search

    Identifiers are source-qualified, for example official/migration/openclaw-migration or skills-sh/anthropics/skills/pdf. You can also install straight from a URL that serves a SKILL.md. --force overrides non-dangerous policy blocks but will not override a dangerous scan verdict.

  4. 4

    Use it as a slash command

    /web-search

    Installed skills become slash commands in any chat session. Run hermes skills list to see everything available, or /skills from inside a session.

Commands follow the official Hermes Agent documentation. Placeholders such as <owner> are filled in by the search step, because registry references are publisher-scoped.

Requirements

API Keys & Credentials

TAVILY_API_KEY

Version & Updates

Current Version
1.0.0
Last Updated
2026-06-01

Safety & verification

Listed as safe
No known issues reported for this skill in the Hermes Agent ecosystem.

How Hermes Agent screens skills

Hermes checks third-party and community skills against policy before installing, and --force will not override a verdict it considers dangerous. Because Hermes can also write its own skills at runtime, review what the Curator has kept periodically with hermes skills list.

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