What shipped.

The first public package release of Hermes GIS Skills, developed through the Mercator profile for the open-source Hermes Agent.

Added

• Public hermes-gis-skills repository with 21 GIS workflow skills
• 116 supporting implementation references
• catalog.json machine-readable inventory
• Installation, security, contribution, license, and changelog documentation
• Dependency-free package validator

Corrected

• Portable paths instead of profile-owner-specific absolute paths
• Repaired inherited broken references
• Clear boundary between procedural skills and optional GIS execution tools
• Public clone, named-profile install, validation, update, and rollback guidance

Compatibility

• Requires Hermes Agent and a configured model provider
• Git and Python 3 support the documented install and validation flow
• Model-agnostic; execution capabilities depend on the active Hermes profile

Known limitations

• The package does not install GIS software, credentials, MCP servers, databases, or an executable toolset
• Skills provide workflow guidance; hard security enforcement belongs in the runtime, tools, identities, and infrastructure
• The project is pre-1.0 and organization-specific validation is still required