Agent skill

Wonderer Methodology

by magnus919 in magnus919/hermes-profiles

A skill your agent uses when exploring adjacent ideas, overlooked angles, or lateral research paths without prematurely collapsing into a single answer.

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Install Wonderer Methodology

skills CLI
$ npx skills add magnus919/hermes-profiles --skill wonderer-methodology -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install magnus919/hermes-profiles wonderer-methodology --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magnus919/hermes-profiles.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/wonderer-methodology .claude/skills/wonderer-methodology && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
wonderer-methodology
GitHub stars
289
Token cost
~431 tokens
SKILL.md length
210 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
31
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when exploring adjacent ideas, overlooked angles, or lateral research paths without prematurely collapsing into a single answer.

  • Exploring adjacent ideas
  • SKILL.md covers When to Load, How to Explore Laterally and References
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Overlooked angles

What it does

Wonderer Methodology is an agent skill from magnus919/hermes-profiles. Use when exploring adjacent ideas, overlooked angles, or lateral research paths without prematurely collapsing into a single answer.

Its SKILL.md is about 430 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/wonderer-patterns.md`).

The repository describes itself as: Curated Hermes Agent profiles for specialist swarms — opinionated, Hermes-optimized, artifact-pyramid native. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Exploring adjacent ideas
  • Overlooked angles
  • Lateral research paths without prematurely collapsing into a single answer

Example prompts

  • “/wonderer-methodology”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 867a555. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Wonderer Methodology loads about 431 tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.8k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 38 tokens; SKILL.md has 210 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~38
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~431
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~1.8k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from magnus919/hermes-profiles at commit 867a555, republished under its MIT licence (© magnus919). 210 words, ~431 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/wonderer-methodology/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
wonderer-methodology
description
Use when exploring adjacent ideas, overlooked angles, or lateral research paths without prematurely collapsing into a single answer.
category
research

Wonderer Methodology

Conditions and patterns for lateral exploration — not a protocol to follow, but a territory to inhabit.

When to Load

  • The user asks the wonderer to explore the periphery of a topic
  • The task is "what am I overlooking?" or "what's adjacent to this?"
  • The user is in a divergent/ideation phase and wants to stay there
  • A question has been asked that the user explicitly does NOT want answered — they want expanded

How to Explore Laterally

The methodology is a single file in references/wonderer-patterns.md — load it with skill_view(name='wonderer-methodology', file_path='references/wonderer-patterns.md').

The conditions are:

  • Seed first — Understand the seed well enough to know what's truly peripheral vs. what's central. A vague seed produces vague exploration.
  • Decompose before exploring — What are the seed's dimensions? Each dimension is a direction to explore.
  • One search per dimension — One well-crafted query per angle. Not exhaustive search across all angles.
  • Flag what's interesting, not what's correct — Premature evaluation kills lateral discovery.
  • Trace back to the anchor — Every interesting find should have a clear path back to the seed. If you can't articulate the connection, it's drift, not wonder.
  • Know when to stop — New searches stop producing novel angles. The periphery has been mapped.

References

  • references/wonderer-patterns.md — The full methodology with search patterns, seed framing, and worked examples.

© magnus919, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in skills/wonderer-methodology of magnus919/hermes-profiles.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/wonderer-patterns.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 867a555

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Questions about Wonderer Methodology

What does Wonderer Methodology do?

A skill your agent uses when exploring adjacent ideas, overlooked angles, or lateral research paths without prematurely collapsing into a single answer. Wonderer Methodology is an agent skill from magnus919/hermes-profiles. Use when exploring adjacent ideas, overlooked angles, or lateral research paths without prematurely collapsing into a single answer.

When should I use Wonderer Methodology?

Wonderer Methodology fits situations like: exploring adjacent ideas; overlooked angles; lateral research paths without prematurely collapsing into a single answer.

How do I install Wonderer Methodology in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add magnus919/hermes-profiles --skill wonderer-methodology -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/wonderer-methodology in magnus919/hermes-profiles) into .claude/skills/wonderer-methodology in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Wonderer Methodology in Codex?

Run `npx skills add magnus919/hermes-profiles --skill wonderer-methodology -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/wonderer-methodology in magnus919/hermes-profiles) into .agents/skills/wonderer-methodology in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Wonderer Methodology in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add magnus919/hermes-profiles --skill wonderer-methodology -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/wonderer-methodology, .gemini/skills/wonderer-methodology, .github/skills/wonderer-methodology and .opencode/skills/wonderer-methodology in your project.

What does Wonderer Methodology need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Wonderer Methodology is instructions for the agent only.

Does Wonderer Methodology access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Wonderer Methodology safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Wonderer Methodology use?

Wonderer Methodology is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Wonderer Methodology use?

About 431 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 1.4k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Wonderer Methodology?

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Who maintains Wonderer Methodology?

magnus919 (a GitHub user) maintains it in magnus919/hermes-profiles, which has 289 GitHub stars. The repository holds 31 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 27, 2026.

Source: magnus919/hermes-profiles on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.