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      "name": "done-bell",
      "does": "Notifies when Hermes finishes a turn or needs approval, with a Desktop status chip, chime and mute controls. [Pinned README](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aydnOktay/hermes-done-bell-/3fa519a291d91b0e6c44bd42762190363ce80c39/README.md)",
      "useful": 4,
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      "polish": 3,
      "creative": 2,
      "beyond": 4,
      "total": 20,
      "best": "A small, broadly useful improvement to leaving long agent turns unattended, backed by hooks, a Desktop pane and basic state tests.",
      "worst": "Installation still uses a developer-specific Windows path and manual Desktop copying; the tests do not exercise real Desktop notifications.",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
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    {
      "pr": 0,
      "name": "homeassistant",
      "does": "Adds a Home Assistant gateway platform, filtered device events, cron notification delivery and four device query/control tools. [Pinned README](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins/e7a218f26db88426ab3e7376f0e000b6e356f5e7/homeassistant/README.md)",
      "useful": 4,
      "reliable": 4,
      "polish": 4,
      "creative": 3,
      "beyond": 5,
      "total": 25,
      "best": "A complete platform integration with profile-scoped secrets, service restrictions, entity filters and targeted security regression tests.",
      "worst": "The long-lived token remains powerful and entity restrictions are opt-in; this familiar integration chiefly benefits users who already run Home Assistant.",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 154077,
      "name": "tradeguard",
      "does": "Provides read-only stock/ETF snapshot research, optional public ticker history, comparable ranking, microstructure calculations and walk-forward experiments. [Pinned README](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vansh-attention/hermes-tradeguard/46434c99ce192f0fa9e3c718d91d57be20d056e4/README.md)",
      "useful": 3,
      "reliable": 4,
      "polish": 3,
      "creative": 2,
      "beyond": 3,
      "total": 18,
      "best": "Explicit missing-data abstention, bounded opt-in networking and extensive evidence/chronology tests make its research boundaries unusually clear.",
      "worst": "Ticker-only research lacks automatic fundamentals and holdings, relies on an unofficial endpoint, and its heuristic recommendations remain unvalidated.",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 152783,
      "name": "voicestudio-tts",
      "does": "Registers a live-configured local VoiceStudio TTS provider for Hermes Read aloud and automatic spoken replies. [Pinned README](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EternalShade3D/voicestudio-hermes-plugin/40ee4663df7c81190bc02c79f09369466ddab1f6/README.md)",
      "useful": 3,
      "reliable": 3,
      "polish": 4,
      "creative": 2,
      "beyond": 4,
      "total": 20,
      "best": "It integrates directly into Hermes speech playback, with voice-name selection, per-profile settings, illustrated setup and actionable server errors.",
      "worst": "No automated tests are committed at the pin, and enabling the voice dropdown rewrites the installed manifest, complicating updates.",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 152854,
      "name": "abeyance",
      "does": "Parks risky scheduled tool calls, keeps a persistent ledger, and resumes the exact call through Hermes approval after owner and drift checks. [Pinned README](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xkinno/abeyance/4e8ddabfa8e2a000418df97886ed58d1f9257a0b/README.md)",
      "useful": 4,
      "reliable": 1,
      "polish": 4,
      "creative": 4,
      "beyond": 5,
      "total": 23,
      "best": "It materially improves unattended Hermes work with deterministic approval cards, owner checks, expiry, replay protection and focused adversarial tests.",
      "worst": "Its --local filter-driver check misses included Git config before host-side git status, allowing repo-controlled filters to execute outside the agent sandbox; see [pinned drift code](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xkinno/abeyance/4e8ddabfa8e2a000418df97886ed58d1f9257a0b/abeyance/drift.py).",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 153695,
      "name": "orphic-eyes",
      "does": "Captures and compares screenshots, verifies bounded pixel-edit requests, and produces visual reports and follow-up prompts for coding agents. [Pinned README](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ilham-Musyafa/Orphic-Eyes/a0411b982b43141cd5b11ba2bb19c204cc9d76b5/README.md)",
      "useful": 3,
      "reliable": 1,
      "polish": 3,
      "creative": 4,
      "beyond": 3,
      "total": 17,
      "best": "Deterministic per-request verdicts, fixed loop goals, browser/network guards and real-browser test cases add useful evidence beyond asking a vision model to review a page.",
      "worst": "Legacy file:// capture accepts arbitrary absolute paths, enabling screenshots of secret files, and launches the browser with the full inherited environment; see [capture code](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ilham-Musyafa/Orphic-Eyes/a0411b982b43141cd5b11ba2bb19c204cc9d76b5/engine/capture.py).",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 151420,
      "name": "continuum",
      "does": "Learns from local task outcomes to route Hermes turns to cheaper models, with consent-gated request shaping, recall and policy auditing. [Pinned README](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aidonerightcorp/continuum/765aad799e520ce7f9cb60329b0d60675fa82c4b/README.md)",
      "useful": 4,
      "reliable": 4,
      "polish": 4,
      "creative": 4,
      "beyond": 5,
      "total": 26,
      "best": "Real request middleware, conservative evidence thresholds, per-sender recall isolation and extensive failure/privacy tests improve Hermes itself through public extension points.",
      "worst": "The supplied live benchmark shows no clear savings, and effective routing needs repeated user marks plus a suitable cheaper model on the same provider.",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 154029,
      "name": "hermes-music-studio",
      "does": "Adds a local music studio with draft approval, render workers, take history, playback, export, checkpoints and bounded audio section edits. [Pinned README](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KeyArgo/hermes-music-studio/e0fa23a5f16092a040feb575bd878aab8f687c28/README.md)",
      "useful": 3,
      "reliable": 2,
      "polish": 5,
      "creative": 4,
      "beyond": 4,
      "total": 22,
      "best": "A substantial Desktop studio, version-bound drafts, take provenance, audio checks and broad regression tests make it feel like a product for local music creation.",
      "worst": "The reachable cloud-setup routes save and read API keys in cloud-keys.json instead of Hermes secrets, a catalog-policy problem despite the otherwise substantial implementation; see [credential code](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KeyArgo/hermes-music-studio/e0fa23a5f16092a040feb575bd878aab8f687c28/music_studio/setup.py).",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 152225,
      "name": "vail-agent-assurance",
      "does": "Connects Hermes to hosted VAIL source scans and probe generation, with skills guiding local agent testing and approved fixes. [Pinned README](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/projectvail/vail-agent-assurance/b987cb9c459568eca591a4cdcd130fb24ea7aa15/README.md)",
      "useful": 3,
      "reliable": 3,
      "polish": 4,
      "creative": 3,
      "beyond": 3,
      "total": 19,
      "best": "It targets improving the user’s own agents, with scoped secret configuration and careful guidance distinguishing suspected risks from tested behavior.",
      "worst": "The pinned package is an MCP manifest plus skills, so the scanning/grading engine is hosted or downloaded and cannot be audited here; the companion Desktop panel is a separate plugin.",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 153641,
      "name": "hermes-chrome",
      "does": "Lets Hermes control a paired logged-in Chrome across chat channels, with visible actions, human handoff, workflow recording and extraction/export tools. [Pinned README](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/whoisdhana/hermes-chrome/b47cc7300bd4391cf125f5c9e4be50bb9e3475bb/README.md)",
      "useful": 5,
      "reliable": 1,
      "polish": 4,
      "creative": 3,
      "beyond": 5,
      "total": 23,
      "best": "It brings the user’s real browser to their Hermes agent, with isolated tab groups, extension-owned approval windows, revocable pairing and real-extension browser tests.",
      "worst": "It imports aiohttp without declaring it, so a minimal install can fail to load, and its tailscale child inherits provider secrets; see [hub code](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/whoisdhana/hermes-chrome/b47cc7300bd4391cf125f5c9e4be50bb9e3475bb/hub.py) and [manifest](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/whoisdhana/hermes-chrome/b47cc7300bd4391cf125f5c9e4be50bb9e3475bb/plugin.yaml).",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 149462,
      "name": "delx-recovery",
      "does": "Connects Hermes to hosted recovery and cross-session continuity tools, with a skill for saving and resuming structured capsules. [Pinned README](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/davidmosiah/delx-plugins/c1d4be02df59f05fe65a27000d0b06b28c9733c2/delx-recovery/README.md)",
      "useful": 3,
      "reliable": 3,
      "polish": 3,
      "creative": 2,
      "beyond": 3,
      "total": 17,
      "best": "The capsule preserves goals, completed work, next steps and refuted approaches, with clear private-identity and untrusted-handoff guidance.",
      "worst": "The Hermes package is chiefly a hosted MCP connector and ritual skill: its guardian hooks do not run in Hermes, and remote storage/recovery behavior is outside the pinned code.",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 153948,
      "name": "pioneer",
      "does": "Uses local work context and public search signals to propose product gaps, check existing alternatives and keep a scored evidence board. [Pinned README](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/acadine-intelligence/hermes-pioneer/5aa55141db765138a5ce1cf96db1295d7f3442d7/README.md)",
      "useful": 3,
      "reliable": 4,
      "polish": 4,
      "creative": 4,
      "beyond": 3,
      "total": 21,
      "best": "Ledger citation checks, coded absence-score limits, source failures and a persistent Desktop/HTML trail make brainstorming more inspectable than a free-form prompt.",
      "worst": "Citation checks establish ledger membership rather than truth, and demand ratings and absence rulings still depend on the proposing model and incomplete default search coverage.",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
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