diff --git a/src/main/skills/discovery.test.ts b/src/main/skills/discovery.test.ts
index 20c04359dc4..822fd2a7a73 100644
--- a/src/main/skills/discovery.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/skills/discovery.test.ts
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ beforeEach(() => {
 
 afterEach(() => {
   unavailableRootPath = null
+  vi.unstubAllEnvs()
   vi.restoreAllMocks()
 })
 
@@ -509,6 +510,38 @@ describe('skill discovery', () => {
     })
   })
 
+  it('discovers Hermes Skills under a relocated HERMES_HOME profile', async () => {
+    const root = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'orca-skills-'))
+    const home = join(root, 'home')
+    const hermesHome = join(root, 'profiles', 'coder')
+    const skillDir = join(hermesHome, 'skills', 'research')
+    await mkdir(skillDir, { recursive: true })
+    await writeFile(
+      join(skillDir, 'SKILL.md'),
+      ['---', 'name: profile-research', 'description: Research sources.', '---', ''].join('\n')
+    )
+    vi.stubEnv('HERMES_HOME', hermesHome)
+
+    const result = await discoverSkills({
+      homeDir: home,
+      cwd: join(root, 'missing-cwd')
+    })
+
+    expect(result.skills).toEqual(
+      expect.arrayContaining([
+        expect.objectContaining({
+          name: 'profile-research',
+          sourceLabel: 'Hermes home',
+          directoryPath: skillDir
+        })
+      ])
+    )
+    expect(result.sources.find((source) => source.id === 'home-hermes')).toMatchObject({
+      path: join(hermesHome, 'skills'),
+      exists: true
+    })
+  })
+
   it('discovers worktree .agents skill symlinks from the requested cwd', async () => {
     const root = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'orca-skills-'))
     const home = join(root, 'home')
diff --git a/src/main/skills/skill-discovery-sources.ts b/src/main/skills/skill-discovery-sources.ts
index 929d4cdeace..638c7c46b5b 100644
--- a/src/main/skills/skill-discovery-sources.ts
+++ b/src/main/skills/skill-discovery-sources.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,10 @@ import type { AgentType } from '../../shared/agent-status-types'
 import type { Repo } from '../../shared/repo-types'
 import { getRepoExecutionHostId, LOCAL_EXECUTION_HOST_ID } from '../../shared/execution-host'
 import type { SkillProviderRootOverrides } from './skill-provider-destinations'
-import { resolveEnvironmentSkillProviderRoots } from './skill-provider-runtime-roots'
+import {
+  resolveEnvironmentHermesSkillsRoot,
+  resolveEnvironmentSkillProviderRoots
+} from './skill-provider-runtime-roots'
 
 export type SkillScanRoot = Omit<SkillDiscoverySource, 'exists' | 'skippedReason'>
 type SkillDiscoveryPathApi = Pick<typeof posix, 'basename' | 'join'>
@@ -77,6 +80,12 @@ export function buildSkillDiscoverySources(
   const cwd = args.cwd ?? process.cwd()
   const providerRootOverrides =
     args.providerRootOverrides ?? (args.pathApi ? {} : resolveEnvironmentSkillProviderRoots())
+  // Why: HERMES_HOME moves the whole profile tree, so the default home path
+  // finds nothing for `hermes -p <profile>`. Only this process's own host can
+  // read it — a custom pathApi means the home belongs to another host.
+  const hermesSkillsRoot =
+    (args.pathApi ? null : resolveEnvironmentHermesSkillsRoot()) ??
+    pathApi.join(home, '.hermes', 'skills')
   const roots: SkillScanRoot[] = [
     source(
       'home-codex',
@@ -144,14 +153,7 @@ export function buildSkillDiscoverySources(
       ['agent-skills'],
       'omp'
     ),
-    source(
-      'home-hermes',
-      'Hermes home',
-      pathApi.join(home, '.hermes', 'skills'),
-      'home',
-      ['agent-skills'],
-      'hermes'
-    ),
+    source('home-hermes', 'Hermes home', hermesSkillsRoot, 'home', ['agent-skills'], 'hermes'),
     source(
       'home-prime-agent',
       'Prime Agent home',
diff --git a/src/main/skills/skill-provider-runtime-roots.test.ts b/src/main/skills/skill-provider-runtime-roots.test.ts
index 07d9d422dac..38a1f2e047e 100644
--- a/src/main/skills/skill-provider-runtime-roots.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/skills/skill-provider-runtime-roots.test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { join } from 'node:path'
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
 import {
+  resolveEnvironmentHermesSkillsRoot,
   resolveEnvironmentSkillProviderRoots,
   resolveWslGrokSkillProviderRoot,
   withClaudeSkillProviderRoot
@@ -30,6 +31,14 @@ describe('skill provider runtime roots', () => {
     })
   })
 
+  it('maps a relocated HERMES_HOME to its skill root and ignores relative ones', () => {
+    expect(resolveEnvironmentHermesSkillsRoot({ HERMES_HOME: join('/srv', 'hermes') })).toBe(
+      join('/srv', 'hermes', 'skills')
+    )
+    expect(resolveEnvironmentHermesSkillsRoot({ HERMES_HOME: '../hermes' })).toBeNull()
+    expect(resolveEnvironmentHermesSkillsRoot({})).toBeNull()
+  })
+
   it('maps the WSL login shell GROK_HOME to a host-readable skill root', async () => {
     await expect(
       resolveWslGrokSkillProviderRoot('Ubuntu-24.04', async () => '/srv/grok\n')
diff --git a/src/main/skills/skill-provider-runtime-roots.ts b/src/main/skills/skill-provider-runtime-roots.ts
index 8f2a4db2196..16c0bab941e 100644
--- a/src/main/skills/skill-provider-runtime-roots.ts
+++ b/src/main/skills/skill-provider-runtime-roots.ts
@@ -37,6 +37,16 @@ export function resolveEnvironmentSkillProviderRoots(
   }
 }
 
+// Why: `HERMES_HOME` relocates a whole Hermes profile tree (`hermes -p coder`),
+// and the rest of Orca already treats it as authoritative. Hermes is not an
+// install provider, so it stays out of `SkillProviderRootOverrides`.
+export function resolveEnvironmentHermesSkillsRoot(
+  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv = process.env
+): string | null {
+  const hermesHome = normalizedRoot(env.HERMES_HOME)
+  return hermesHome ? join(hermesHome, 'skills') : null
+}
+
 export function withClaudeSkillProviderRoot(
   roots: SkillProviderRootOverrides,
   claudeConfigDirectory: string | null | undefined