Graphic Designer (Hermes Agency profile)

agency-graphic-designer is one profile distribution from the Hermes Agency pack by Kyle French. This archive carries that single profile, so it can be installed and read on its own without pulling in the other 112 Agency profiles.

What the profile does

A 2D communication graphics specialist. It turns an approved brief and brand/creative direction into composed deliverables: social cards, diagrams, posters, one-pagers, presentation visuals, campaign assets and layout systems — including the production files and exports needed to ship them in print or digital channels.

Ownership boundaries

Owns: 2D graphic composition and layout; campaign and social assets; diagrams, posters and presentation graphics; typographic and image hierarchy and format adaptation inside an approved brand system; production files and exports.

Does not own: the brand identity system (that is Brand Designer) or original art direction across a campaign (Art Director / Creative Director). When a task crosses a boundary, SOUL.md directs the profile to complete the part inside its specialty and hand the adjacent decision to the named owner with evidence and context — rather than quietly expanding scope.

Capabilities

Each directory under skills/ is a repeatable procedure, not an alternate persona:

Skill	Use it for
graphic-composition	Building a graphic from hierarchy, grid, typography, imagery, whitespace, focal path and channel constraints.
campaign-asset-production	Producing a coherent family of campaign/social assets across formats while preserving concept and brand recognition.
diagram-visual-design	Explanatory diagrams: relationships, flow, hierarchy, architecture, process.
presentation-visual-system	A reusable presentation system: grid, title/body hierarchy, charts, callouts, section transitions, dense-content patterns.
production-export-preflight	Preflight and export for print or digital: dimensions, resolution, colour mode/profile, bleed and safe areas, fonts, transparency, compression, naming, source preservation.
academy-continuing-education	The Continuing Education entry point (see below). Preloaded by distribution.yaml.

Install

hermes profile install ./agency-graphic-designer --alias --yes
hermes profile describe agency-graphic-designer \
  --text "Produces composed 2D communication graphics such as social cards, diagrams, posters, one-pagers, presentation visuals, campaign assets, and layout systems from approved brand and creative direction."

--alias registers the profile under the name agency-graphic-designer. Requires a Hermes Agent build that provides hermes profile install.

Continuing Education dependency

distribution.yaml declares preload_skills: [academy-continuing-education], and that capability ships inside this archive (skills/academy-continuing-education/), so the preload resolves locally. The wider Continuing Education flow — asking the profile to go learn a capability and saving it with /learn — additionally needs a Hermes build with goal_manage, profile-distribution preload_skills support and bounded goal-judge feedback. Nothing else in the profile depends on it.

Contents

Path	What it is
SOUL.md	The behavioural contract: role, responsibilities, authority and handoff boundaries, working standard, collaboration, definition of done.
distribution.yaml	Distribution metadata: name, version, description, author, licence, preload_skills.
skills/	The six procedures above.
README.md, LICENSE	Added when this single-profile archive was packaged (see provenance).

The pack is source artifacts only: no credentials, tokens, memory, sessions, logs or generated runtime state.

Licence and provenance

AGPL-3.0-only. Author: Kyle French. Upstream: github.com/Dadmin88/hermes-profile-packs, pinned at commit 3821183d2b7d (2026-09-15), profile directory hermes-agency/profiles/agency-graphic-designer. This README.md and LICENSE are the only files in the archive that are not byte-identical to that commit.

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TalentDelta provenance record (added at packaging)

• Packaged for: TalentDelta catalogue (draft; gated by review)
• Upstream: https://github.com/Dadmin88/hermes-profile-packs
• Pinned commit: 3821183d2b7d5af3cd18bc1c7c4da58ad9bb784e (2026-09-15)
• Licence: AGPL-3.0-only - AGPL-3.0-only, declared in distribution.yaml; the upstream licence text was copied into this archive as LICENSE rather than shipped from the repository root (see the changes line)
• Upstream author credit: Kyle French
• Runtime: Hermes Agent profile distribution: hermes profile install <dir> --alias --yes. No model or provider is pinned. The Continuing Education flow additionally needs a Hermes build with goal_manage and profile-distribution preload_skills support; the preloaded capability itself ships inside this pack
• Changes made at packaging: this section was appended to README.md. No upstream path is excluded. Added at packaging, not present in the pinned commit: README.md, LICENSE (pack usage notes written for this distribution, and the AGPL-3.0 licence text copied verbatim from the same pinned repository so the archive carries its own licence). Every other file is byte-identical to the pinned commit.
• Safety read of the packaged archive (packaging time, 2026-10-06): no secrets, credentials, runtime state or sessions - the archive is source only (SOUL.md, distribution.yaml, six capability skills, README.md, LICENSE).

Packaging notes (TalentDelta)

• The reviewer-side inspector flags skills/production-export-preflight/SKILL.md as referencing assets/fonts. That string is prose inside the procedure's own inspection checklist ('inspect linked assets/fonts'): it names a workspace the designer inspects at run time, not a file the profile ships. It was left untouched, and the pack's complete file list is SOUL.md, distribution.yaml, the six skills under skills/, README.md and LICENSE.
• Why this profile: it is the graphic-design role out of 113 sibling profiles. Adjacent roles exist upstream (brand designer, print designer, social designer, design systems, art director, creative director) and are deliberately not bundled here.
• distribution.yaml declares preload_skills: [academy-continuing-education], and that capability ships INSIDE this archive, so the preload resolves locally with no cross-pack dependency.
• distribution.yaml also carries requiredHermes: goal_manage, requiredCapabilities: [goal_manage] and the upstream requirements marker for a profile-distribution preload_skills implementation. Those are Hermes build capabilities, not shipped files: on a build without them the Continuing Education flow is inert while the rest of the profile runs.