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      "pr": 0,
      "name": "done-bell",
      "does": "Notifies users when Hermes finishes a turn or needs approval, with a chime, event history and Desktop status chip.",
      "useful": 4,
      "reliable": 3,
      "polish": 3,
      "creative": 2,
      "beyond": 4,
      "total": 20,
      "best": "Hooks and Desktop busy-state observation provide useful notifications without sending conversation contents.",
      "worst": "The README requires a manual Desktop file copy, and tests cover Python state and hooks rather than the Desktop notification path.",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 0,
      "name": "homeassistant",
      "does": "Connects Hermes to Home Assistant as an event-driven gateway platform and four tools for device discovery, state reads and service control.",
      "useful": 4,
      "reliable": 5,
      "polish": 4,
      "creative": 3,
      "beyond": 5,
      "total": 26,
      "best": "A genuine platform adapter combines filtered events, reconnect handling, cron notifications and tested service restrictions.",
      "worst": "Useful primarily to Home Assistant owners, and entity allow/deny restrictions require operator configuration.",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 151966,
      "name": "ballast",
      "does": "Plans and performs human-approved cleanup of macOS developer and AI caches using estimated regeneration regret, signed plans and a durable ledger.",
      "useful": 4,
      "reliable": 4,
      "polish": 5,
      "creative": 4,
      "beyond": 4,
      "total": 25,
      "best": "Closed cache roots, snapshot revalidation, fresh approval receipts, Desktop planning and extensive safety tests make destructive cleanup unusually deliberate.",
      "worst": "macOS-only cleanup remains irreversible and nontransactional; regeneration costs are estimates and concurrent cache activity can interrupt execution.",
      "standout": true,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 153370,
      "name": "skill-workshop",
      "does": "Mines repeated Hermes session workflows into reviewed skills and adds skill-building, skill-loading checks and tool-call provenance guards.",
      "useful": 4,
      "reliable": 4,
      "polish": 4,
      "creative": 4,
      "beyond": 5,
      "total": 26,
      "best": "Session-history mining, content-hash skill decisions and runtime tool vetoes directly improve how a personal Hermes agent learns and uses skills.",
      "worst": "Mining checks tool sequences rather than task success, while literal pattern and tool-name matching leave injection blind spots.",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 150433,
      "name": "yandex_mail",
      "does": "Provides scoped IMAP mailbox operations and opt-in SMTP sending and attachment saving for Yandex Mail.",
      "useful": 3,
      "reliable": 4,
      "polish": 4,
      "creative": 2,
      "beyond": 3,
      "total": 19,
      "best": "Detailed protocol handling, current-profile credentials, bounded reads and extensive safety tests support a substantial mailbox integration.",
      "worst": "Sending has no per-message approval after opt-in, permanent deletion is exposed, and attachment path translation depends on a private Hermes helper.",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 152930,
      "name": "shorguard",
      "does": "Inspects proposed Hermes writes and commands for classical public-key cryptography, supplies post-quantum alternatives and scans repositories into readiness reports.",
      "useful": 3,
      "reliable": 3,
      "polish": 4,
      "creative": 4,
      "beyond": 4,
      "total": 22,
      "best": "The pre-tool hook catches newly introduced crypto before writing, with migration recipes and tested multi-language rules.",
      "worst": "The model can bypass enforcement by inserting shorguard allow comments; pattern matching also misses indirect crypto and silently skips oversized text.",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 153715,
      "name": "hermes-backup",
      "does": "Backs up Hermes data to local and S3-compatible restic repositories, stages restores and runs restore-and-compare disaster recovery drills.",
      "useful": 5,
      "reliable": 2,
      "polish": 4,
      "creative": 3,
      "beyond": 4,
      "total": 22,
      "best": "Dual-target backup and actual restore drills address the valuable problem of preserving a user\u2019s agent state.",
      "worst": "Secrets.load falls back to a password file even without a standalone-mode guard, contrary to catalog rule 11; restore confirmation is only an agent-supplied boolean.",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 150501,
      "name": "hermes-windows-disks",
      "does": "Queries Windows storage classes to report physical-disk health, partition layouts, volume capacity and low-space warnings.",
      "useful": 3,
      "reliable": 4,
      "polish": 3,
      "creative": 2,
      "beyond": 3,
      "total": 18,
      "best": "Fixed read-only CIM queries and numeric-enum decoding give Hermes useful hardware facts without localized-output parsing.",
      "worst": "It exposes a conventional OS query rather than new agent behavior, and subprocess timeouts or missing PowerShell escape the handler\u2019s PowerShellError catch.",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 152085,
      "name": "hermes-voice-lab",
      "does": "Adds a local articulatory voice instrument with Desktop controls, speech and singing tools, WAV rendering and musical call-and-response with Hermes.",
      "useful": 3,
      "reliable": 4,
      "polish": 5,
      "creative": 5,
      "beyond": 5,
      "total": 27,
      "best": "A source-backed physical voice engine, interactive instrument and conversation-linked jam mode create a distinctive new Hermes Desktop capability.",
      "worst": "Speech is English-only and less natural than neural TTS, gateway renders require Node, and bundled WASM provenance was not independently verified in this read.",
      "standout": true,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 152881,
      "name": "hermes-crm",
      "does": "Provides a profile-scoped CRM with linked records, pipeline reports, reviewed research notes and bounded scheduled work shared by agent tools and a native Desktop pane.",
      "useful": 4,
      "reliable": 4,
      "polish": 5,
      "creative": 3,
      "beyond": 5,
      "total": 26,
      "best": "Version checks, idempotent writes, shared agent/UI storage and extensive workflow tests turn CRM records into a substantial native Hermes workspace.",
      "worst": "It is explicitly a small-workspace prototype with bounded legacy lists, incomplete platform/accessibility coverage and no email or external CRM connectors.",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 151997,
      "name": "boardroomlist",
      "does": "Configures a public remote MCP server and a skill for searching senior job listings and reading individual roles.",
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      "reliable": 2,
      "polish": 2,
      "creative": 1,
      "beyond": 2,
      "total": 11,
      "best": "A credential-free read-only connection makes a focused job dataset available with simple filtering guidance.",
      "worst": "The pinned repository contains only configuration and a skill, no server implementation or tests; runtime tools are remote and the PR reports no Hermes installation test.",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 153830,
      "name": "signal-atlas",
      "does": "Builds source-linked visual investigations in Hermes Desktop, with a persistent evidence ledger, feed ingestion, charts, claim dossiers and saved follow-up answers.",
      "useful": 4,
      "reliable": 4,
      "polish": 5,
      "creative": 4,
      "beyond": 4,
      "total": 25,
      "best": "A shared revisioned evidence store and interactive Desktop workspace preserve citations and follow-up research beyond a chat response.",
      "worst": "Claim extraction and verification depend on heuristics or the host model; direct ingestion accepts only bounded uncompressed RSS/Atom feeds, and social connectors remain future work.",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    }
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