Its job
Turns an approved brief, notes, or source material into a clear first draft for a named audience.
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Writer
First-draft writing assistant
Turns an approved brief, notes, or source material into a clear first draft for a named audience.
Best for: People who know what they want to say and need help producing a usable first draft.
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Import the profile, review its files, choose the access it needs, and run the first assignment. The archive imported successfully and its Skill was present in an isolated Hermes Agent 0.21.3 installation. Its task results have not been tested.
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Grok BotPrepared · test pending
Copy the job into a Grok Bot profile, try one task, and review the result before adding a Skill or Routine. This Bot has not been tested in Grok.
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Portable Bot Pack
Download the instructions, Bot Passport and setup notes as Markdown or JSON. The Agent Skill is a SKILL.md file. Check your app’s requirements and test it there; results can differ between apps.
Review the instructions and permissions, then run a test in your chosen app before relying on the result.
First task
Try one small job
Draft a 500-word article from one approved outline and three supplied sources.
BringApproved notes or brief
Look forA complete first draft
Read the job, safety rules, files, and test record
Job and limits
What this Bot is responsible for
Outside its job
- A person approves factual claims and final wording.
- The Bot uses supplied sources and marks unsupported claims.
Information it relies on
- Approved source material
- Audience
- Purpose
- Writing samples or style guide
Ask you before
- Do not invent facts
- Do not publish or send
- Mark claims that need review
When it runs
Run when I provide approved source material and a brief.
What it produces
- A complete first draft
- A headline or subject-line set
- Questions that require the author's judgment
Bot Pack 2.0
Put Writer to work
Get the setup files, try the first task, and check the result. The pack also includes a reusable Skill and a plan for a Routine.
First assignment
Draft a 500-word article from one approved outline and three supplied sources.
Check the result
Pause for a person to review these deliverables: A complete first draft; A headline or subject-line set; Questions that require the author's judgment. Wait for approval before the Bot sends, publishes, schedules, purchases, deletes, deploys, or changes an outside account.
Prepared · test pending
Reusable Skill
Writer core Skill
Run when I provide approved source material and a brief.
Produces- A complete first draft
- A headline or subject-line set
- Questions that require the author's judgment
Manual test required
Planned Routine
Writer primary Routine
Run when I provide approved source material and a brief.
Before schedulingStop, preserve the completed work, and report the failure before trying again or changing access.
The Skill and Routine have not been task-tested. Try them with sample material and approve the results before adding a schedule or outside access.
Try asking
- Turn this approved outline into a 700-word newsletter for local business leaders.
- Draft a LinkedIn post from these three source-backed points.
- Write a client update from these meeting notes and action items.
What it should produce
- A complete first draft
- A headline or subject-line set
- Questions that require the author's judgment
What you provide
- Approved notes or brief
- Audience and purpose
- Writing samples or a short style guide
Decisions you make
- A person approves factual claims and final wording.
- The Bot uses supplied sources and marks unsupported claims.
Bot Passport · version 2
Access and approval record
Review this record before setup. Update it whenever the Bot's job, tools, accounts, schedule, or authority changes.
- Approved notes or brief
- Audience and purpose
- Writing samples or a short style guide
- A complete first draft
- A headline or subject-line set
- Questions that require the author's judgment
- Analyze material supplied in its conversation
- Draft the listed deliverables for a person to review
- Identify missing information and ask questions
- A person approves factual claims and final wording
- Inventing facts
- Publishing or sending
Tools and access requested
Read-only document access · Optional web access for checking supplied links
How to stop it
Disable its schedule, remove outside-service connections, and revoke or rotate any dedicated credentials.
What these rules can and cannot prevent
- Mark claims that need review
- The Bot uses supplied sources and marks unsupported claims.
Set it up in Hermes Desktop
Import the profile and run one small test
The Hermes download contains its manifests, role instructions, Bot Passport, setup guide, license, and included Skills. The ZIP contains the same files for inspection.
- 1Download the Hermes profile.
Import the .tar.gz archive from the Profiles screen, or copy the terminal command above.
- 2Review the imported profile.
Read README.md and SOUL.md, then confirm the name, description, and standing instructions.
- 3Choose the access it needs.
Add only the skills, tools, and connections required for this job.
- 4Run the named first test.
Draft a 500-word article from one approved outline and three supplied sources.
- 5Keep proof.
Save the exact input, the finished output, the Bot and Hermes versions, the date, and any correction you had to make.
- 6Test one failure.
Remove a required input or deny an optional connection. The Bot should stop or explain what is missing instead of inventing an answer or taking a different action.
- 7Repeat before automating.
Run the same job successfully again after any change to its instructions, tools, source material, or schedule.
Useful combinations
Pair Writer with another role
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See complete Bot Crews workflows Current review status: Automated package tests check that each ZIP and Hermes profile archive contains the same declared files. This archive imported successfully and its Skill was present in an isolated Hermes Agent 0.21.3 installation on September 20, 2026. Human technical review and task-result tests have not yet been completed. The Grok Bot build brief remains untested.