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   "best": "Small, focused hooks plus a Desktop pane solve a real away-from-keyboard need with no keys.",
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   "does": "Official gateway platform adapter and four tools to query and control Home Assistant devices over WebSocket/REST.",
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   "best": "A real platform adapter with entity denylists, cooldowns and a solid test suite.",
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   "does": "Docks a film/YouTube theatre pane in Hermes Desktop and drives a MilkDrop-style visualiser from system loopback audio with agent-mood hooks.",
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   "polish": 5,
   "creative": 5,
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   "best": "Unusually finished Desktop experience with ~370 tests and local-only audio analysis.",
   "worst": "Mostly ambience, not agent capability; Linux-first, large 29k-line codebase.",
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   "name": "babelaz-pareto-aaa",
   "does": "/aaa builds a small web game in rounds, checks it in a real Playwright browser and has a model judge it until it scores 8/10.",
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   "best": "Real browser checks (FPS, page errors, axe) gate each round, with honest documented run results.",
   "worst": "Narrow use case, heavy Playwright dependency and long expensive runs; self-judging by same model.",
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   "pr": 153944,
   "name": "hermes-custodian",
   "does": "Local security-posture monitor with baselines, evidence-backed findings, read-only agent tools and an authenticated local dashboard.",
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   "creative": 3,
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   "best": "310 tests across Linux/macOS/Windows CI, scoped consent and fail-closed reporting.",
   "worst": "Mostly a conventional file-integrity monitor; no hooks into the agent loop.",
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   "pr": 153529,
   "name": "saywhat",
   "does": "Local faster-whisper STT provider that measures per-word confidence, asks the user to disambiguate, learns a personal dictionary and coaches pronunciation.",
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   "best": "Changes how Hermes hears voice input: confidence-aware confirmation before acting.",
   "worst": "Depends on local Whisper models and hardware; v0.1.0.",
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   "pr": 152416,
   "name": "proactive-agent",
   "does": "Governs chat turns on chosen platforms: turn time reminders, terminal auto-detach, subagent briefs, loop stopping and a background-result ledger.",
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   "beyond": 5,
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   "best": "Deep hooks and middleware reshape Hermes delegation and responsiveness.",
   "worst": "Defaults to weixin only, many interacting timers that may surprise users; plugin folder itself thin on docs.",
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   "blocked": null
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   "pr": 149124,
   "name": "neuralwatt",
   "does": "Seven tools to check NeuralWatt API health, models, balance, costs, energy use and sessions.",
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   "best": "Simple, clean read-only API wrapper using the Hermes .env key.",
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   "blocked": null
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   "name": "shadow-army",
   "does": "Kanban completion gate that requires an independent PASS from a different model family running the check command before closing or pushing.",
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   "polish": 5,
   "creative": 4,
   "beyond": 5,
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   "best": "Catches reward-hacking like deleted tests by gating done/push on a cross-family verifier.",
   "worst": "Complex config (verifier routes, lifetimes) and adds cost and latency to every close.",
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   "pr": 153179,
   "name": "hermes-verify",
   "does": "Flags risky tool calls, logs audit receipts and labels finished agent prose as unverified, with a verify_claim URL tool.",
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   "best": "Candid about limits and uses held-output hook with boundary tests.",
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   "pr": 151239,
   "name": "hermes-salespilot",
   "does": "Sales desk: import or find leads, qualify, draft outreach, send by SMTP only after approval, and track replies in Desktop views.",
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   "creative": 3,
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   "best": "Human approval before every send with SMTP/IMAP TLS hardening and 185 tests.",
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   "pr": 149578,
   "name": "household-tiers",
   "does": "Per-person owner/user/guest tool tiers for a shared gateway bot, with family curfew, parent alert and owner memory withheld from others.",
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   "creative": 4,
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   "best": "Adds real per-user permissions to Hermes gateway via dispatch hooks and llm_request middleware.",
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