{
  "schema_version": "1.1",
  "name": "Hermes Startup",
  "canonical_url": "https://hermesstartup.com/",
  "positioning": "Hermes Startup helps you make your first $1 online with Hermes Agent.",
  "summary": "A native Hermes Agent skill that helps a user privately discover business ideas unique to them, choose one evidence-labeled opportunity direction, and take a bounded next validation step toward a first online dollar.",
  "intended_user": "A Hermes Agent user who wants structured guidance for building a business and working toward a first online dollar.",
  "core_benefit": "The only tool the user needs to use is Hermes Agent. Hermes Startup runs inside it and supplies the structure, roadmap, guidance, and intended automatic tool selection.",
  "primary_action": {
    "canonical_skill_url": "https://hermesstartup.com/skill/SKILL.md",
    "install_command": "hermes skills install https://hermesstartup.com/skill/SKILL.md",
    "start_command": "/startup",
    "no_account_or_payment_required": true
  },
  "free_path": {
    "personal_questions": 10,
    "business_ideas_shown": 3,
    "business_ideas_pool": 10,
    "free_ideas_are_a_sample_not_the_top_three": true,
    "free_ideas_explained_in_detail": true,
    "price": "US$0",
    "runs_inside": "Hermes Agent"
  },
  "paid_continuation_preview": {
    "status": "not_live",
    "one_time_price": "US$10",
    "subscription": false,
    "total_business_ideas": 10,
    "full_set_graded_and_ranked": true,
    "grading_explained_in_plain_language": true,
    "tool_catalog": "1,000+ API tools from 20+ providers",
    "tool_selection": "Hermes Startup automatically chooses and uses the right tools inside Hermes Agent",
    "billing": "Pay-as-you-go per API call, debited from one balance",
    "auto_top_up": "optional and user-controlled",
    "purpose": "Fund the API calls needed to start building the chosen business and help the user reach a first online dollar faster"
  },
  "capabilities": [
    {
      "name": "start_or_resume_unique_ideas",
      "description": "Ask one focused question at a time and resume private local progress."
    },
    {
      "name": "opportunity_map",
      "description": "Return one recommended direction, alternatives, assumptions, evidence labels, uncertainty, and a bounded next test."
    },
    {
      "name": "local_control",
      "description": "Support correction, inspection, opting out of a question, and deletion of local state."
    },
    {
      "name": "path_accountability",
      "description": "Confirm a path, evidence budget, and stop rule before a market-facing or paid step."
    }
  ],
  "safety": {
    "private_answers_stay_local_by_default": true,
    "external_actions_require_explicit_approval": true,
    "no_income_or_customer_guarantee": true,
    "do_not_upload_credentials_or_raw_private_answers": true
  },
  "current_availability": {
    "free_unique_ideas_discovery": "available through the installable local skill",
    "proposed_usd_10_continuation": "checkout is not live",
    "public_payment_or_execution_api": false
  },
  "resources": {
    "agent_handoff": "https://hermesstartup.com/for-agents.md",
    "agent_index": "https://hermesstartup.com/llms.txt",
    "full_agent_context": "https://hermesstartup.com/llms-full.txt",
    "skill": "https://hermesstartup.com/skill/SKILL.md",
    "openapi": "https://hermesstartup.com/openapi.yaml",
    "source": "https://github.com/33hodl/hermes-startup"
  }
}