Skins & Themes
Skins control the visual presentation of the Hermes CLI: banner colors, spinner faces and verbs, response box labels, branding text, and the tool activity prefi
Skins control the visual presentation of the Hermes CLI: banner colors, spinner faces and verbs, response-box labels, branding text, and the tool activity prefix. Conversational style and visual style are separate concepts: Or set the default skin in : Controls all color values throughout the CLI. Values are hex color strings. …
What this page covers
- Change skins
- Built-in skins
- Complete list of configurable keys
- Colors (colors:)
- Spinner (spinner:)
- Branding (branding:)
- Other top-level keys
- Custom skins
- Full custom skin YAML template
- Minimal custom skin example
- Hermes Mod — Visual Skin Editor
- Install
- Usage
- Operational notes
Section outline mirrored from the official Hermes Agent documentation. Follow any heading to read the complete text on the source site.
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