Vietnamese Writer

A Hermes Agent skill for planning, drafting, and reviewing original Vietnamese content in Vietnamese.

What it is

Vietnamese Writer is a Hermes Agent skill of roughly 600 words for original Vietnamese writing. It asks the agent to plan, outline, draft, and review in Vietnamese instead of treating Vietnamese as an English draft translated at the end.

I made it for the failure Vietnamese readers often call dịch thô: the individual words may be correct, but the sentence shape and rhythm read as if they came from English.

The skill is a writing protocol, not a guarantee about a model’s hidden reasoning. I can inspect whether the agent follows its visible steps and review the resulting text; I cannot inspect or prove a model’s private internal mechanism.

Why it exists

Prompts such as “write naturally” helped only a little in my own work. A manual edit could repair one post, while the next task returned to the same habits. I needed a consistent starting process for Vietnamese blog posts, case studies, and longer social content.

The related case study documents one production run after the skill was created: ten long-form Vietnamese posts, reviewed against the checks used for that batch. That is useful evidence for the workflow, but it is not a claim that the skill works equally well for every model, topic, or audience.

How it works

The skill has five steps:

1. Detect whether the task is original Vietnamese writing.
2. Plan and outline in Vietnamese.
3. Draft directly in Vietnamese, using Vietnamese language examples and constraints in the skill.
4. Review the draft in Vietnamese with five questions about word order, register, readability, and common AI phrasing.
5. Return clean Vietnamese content without an English preamble.

It is self-gated, which means the protocol is intended to activate only for Vietnamese-writing tasks. It should stay out of English work. The same boundary rules out machine translation, mixed-language documents, and very short requests where the extra review step is not worth the overhead.

For a longer document, it can sit beneath a domain-specific skill. Vietnamese Writer handles the language process; the other skill can provide the subject-matter structure.

Installation

The installer downloads the skill and its integration reference into Hermes’s skills directory. Review the script before piping it to a shell, especially on a machine you use for production work.

# Install the Hermes skill (via repo):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thanhan-a17/vietnamese-writer-skill/main/install.sh | bash

# Load in a session:
hermes --skills vietnamese-writer
# Or: /skill vietnamese-writer

After installation, I would start with a real paragraph-length Vietnamese task and review the first output as a reader would. The next useful improvement is not a bigger promise; it is a record of where the protocol still needs help.