smart-suggestion

Generates one tailored weekly suggestion from user patterns, homelab activity, and web research.

Updated Jul 10, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/timchap/dot-hermes --skill smart-suggestion-timchap
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent▼
Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: smart-suggestion
Source: https://github.com/timchap/dot-hermes/tree/main/skills/smart-suggestion
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/timchap/dot-hermes --skill smart-suggestion-timchap

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

💡 This Skill includes references (resource) components.

What problem does it solve? Coming up with genuinely useful, non-repetitive automation and productivity ideas requires digging through your own history, tooling, and the fast-moving AI/homelab ecosystem — a research task most people never get around to. This Skill automates that scouting work and delivers one concrete, personalized suggestion per run. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Context-Aware Ideation: Searches past sessions, memory files, cron jobs, installed skills, and homelab git history to ground suggestions in your actual usage patterns. - Web Research Integration: Runs 3-5 targeted searches on agentic AI, homelab automation, and smart home integrations to surface new tools and ecosystem changes. - Novelty & Supersession Filtering: Cross-references a persistent tracker file to avoid repeating past ideas and pivots away from approaches made obsolete by new official integrations (e.g., Home Assistant's first-party MCP server). - Use Case: Run as a weekly cron job to receive a single formatted suggestion — for example, adopting n8n's native MCP nodes to orchestrate existing homelab services — complete with effort estimate and setup requirements. ## Quick Start Run the smart-suggestion skill to generate this week's tailored recommendation based on my recent activity and current ecosystem trends.

Frequently Asked Questions about smart-suggestion

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

FAQPage Schema
How do I generate personalized weekly automation suggestions?▼

Run this Skill as a cron job; each execution gathers your session history, memory files, cron jobs, and homelab git activity, then performs web research to select one novel, actionable suggestion. The result is delivered in a structured format with effort estimates and setup requirements.

How does the skill avoid repeating past suggestions?▼

It reads a persistent tracker at /home/hermes/.hermes/data/smart-suggestions.md before starting and updates it after each run. Every considered idea, including rejected ones, is logged so future runs can filter out duplicates and superseded approaches.

Can I use Home Assistant with an AI agent via MCP?▼

Yes, Home Assistant ships an official MCP Server integration exposing entities, automations, and the Assist API as MCP tools. A third-party HA-MCP server installed via HACS adds 60+ additional tools, and both work with any MCP client including Hermes.

What happens when no interesting suggestion is found?▼

The Skill outputs [SILENT] with nothing else rather than forcing a low-quality idea. This ensures weekly runs only deliver suggestions that are tailored, actionable, novel, and within the user's expressed interest areas.

Why does the skill avoid proposing more MCP-related ideas?▼

The tracker shows the user received 4+ MCP-related suggestions without acting on them. The Skill treats absent feedback as neutral but pivots to different angles like orchestration layers, workflow automation, or monitoring-to-action pipelines.