{
 "schema_version": "1.2",
 "name": "Hermes Startup",
 "canonical_url": "https://hermesstartup.com/",
 "positioning": "Hermes Startup helps you make money with your Hermes Agent.",
 "summary": "A native Hermes Agent skill that helps a user privately discover proven business ideas, matched 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.",
 "when_to_use": [
  "The user wants proven business ideas, matched to them, not a generic list: 10 private questions produce all 10 ideas, each explained in detail and ranked with the reason why, for free.",
  "The user wants one realistic path: the US$10 prepaid continuation builds and runs the chosen business, with every external action approval-gated.",
  "The user wants the work to stay private and local: onboarding answers remain inside their Hermes Agent, and every external action requires explicit approval.",
  "Not for: generic startup news, stock tips, gambling, guaranteed-income schemes, or anything that spends money or posts publicly without explicit user approval."
 ],
 "call_instructions": "Install the skill with `hermes skills install https://hermesstartup.com/skill/SKILL.md`, run `/startup`, and ask one focused question at a time.",
 "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": 10,
  "business_ideas_pool": 10,
  "all_ideas_free_and_ranked": true,
  "free_ideas_explained_in_detail": true,
  "price": "US$0",
  "runs_inside": "Hermes Agent"
 },
 "paid_continuation_preview": {
  "status": "live",
  "one_time_price": "US$10",
  "subscription": false,
  "total_business_ideas": 10,
  "builds_and_runs_chosen_business": true,
  "approval_gated": true,
  "tool_catalog": "2,000+ API tools from 50+ 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 that build and run 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."
  },
  {
   "name": "website_to_api",
   "description": "Record one browser session on any website and derive its hidden JSON API as a static client the user's agent can call directly with plain HTTP."
  },
  {
   "name": "agent_payable_api",
   "description": "The paid API paths speak the HTTP 402 (x402 V2) payment format: a calling agent can read the price from the free offer catalog at https://api.hermesstartup.com/v1/x402, authorize one spend from the prepaid balance with a PAYMENT-SIGNATURE header, and receive a settlement receipt. Funding the balance remains a human action. Staged behind an operator switch and fail-closed until enabled."
  }
 ],
 "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",
  "usd_10_continuation": "checkout is live via Stripe; prepaid balance, no subscription, no automatic top-up; provider calls and external actions require explicit approval",
  "public_payment_gateway": true,
  "ucp_business_profile": true,
  "public_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",
  "ucp_profile": "https://hermesstartup.com/.well-known/ucp",
  "x402_offer_catalog": "https://api.hermesstartup.com/v1/x402",
  "skill": "https://hermesstartup.com/skill/SKILL.md",
  "openapi": "https://hermesstartup.com/openapi.yaml",
  "openapi_json": "https://hermesstartup.com/openapi.json",
  "api_catalog": "https://hermesstartup.com/.well-known/api-catalog",
  "agent_skills_index": "https://hermesstartup.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json",
  "ai_catalog": "https://hermesstartup.com/.well-known/ai-catalog.json",
  "auth_md": "https://hermesstartup.com/auth.md",
  "api_error_contract": "https://hermesstartup.com/api-error.json",
  "developer_portal": "https://hermesstartup.com/developers.html",
  "about": "https://hermesstartup.com/about",
  "contact": "https://hermesstartup.com/contact",
  "website_to_api": "https://hermesstartup.com/website-to-api.md",
  "workflows": "https://hermesstartup.com/workflows.md",
  "source": "https://github.com/33hodl/hermes-startup",
  "ai_business_builders": "https://hermesstartup.com/ai-business-builders.md"
 }
}