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  {
   "pr": 0,
   "name": "done-bell",
   "does": "Rings an OS notification/chime and shows a busy/done/needs-you status chip when a Hermes turn finishes or waits for approval.",
   "useful": 3,
   "reliable": 3,
   "polish": 3,
   "creative": 2,
   "beyond": 3,
   "total": 17,
   "best": "Small, honest, no-keys utility with hooks, a Desktop chip and a slash command.",
   "worst": "Only one test file, Windows-centric dev install with a manual pane copy step.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 0,
   "name": "homeassistant",
   "does": "Official Home Assistant gateway platform plus four tools to read and control smart-home devices over REST/WebSocket.",
   "useful": 4,
   "reliable": 5,
   "polish": 4,
   "creative": 3,
   "beyond": 5,
   "total": 26,
   "best": "A real platform adapter with event filtering, cooldowns, service policy and a broad test suite, token via Hermes secret store.",
   "worst": "A port of a formerly built-in feature rather than something new.",
   "standout": true,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 151899,
   "name": "hermes-guard",
   "does": "Local deterministic prompt-injection guard that scans inbound messages and tool args via pre_llm_call/pre_tool_call hooks and quarantines suspicious ones.",
   "useful": 4,
   "reliable": 4,
   "polish": 4,
   "creative": 3,
   "beyond": 4,
   "total": 23,
   "best": "Fail-closed hooks with ~170 tests, a quarantine log and owner-only release commands.",
   "worst": "Pattern-based detection that, as its own README admits, novel obfuscation will pass.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 153274,
   "name": "embargo",
   "does": "Detects 'EMBARGOED UNTIL' headers in what the agent reads and blocks any tool call from sending that text out until the release time, with a Desktop countdown card.",
   "useful": 2,
   "reliable": 4,
   "polish": 4,
   "creative": 5,
   "beyond": 4,
   "total": 23,
   "best": "A genuinely new outbound-guard idea enforced in pre_tool_call with ~50 tests and a Desktop card.",
   "worst": "Serves a narrow newsroom/PR audience.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 152980,
   "name": "hermes-visual-memory",
   "does": "Watches a desk through an Echo Show camera (Hermes Eye) and remembers objects over time to answer what changed or where something was last seen.",
   "useful": 2,
   "reliable": 3,
   "polish": 4,
   "creative": 5,
   "beyond": 4,
   "total": 22,
   "best": "Novel persistent visual memory with local change detection, ~150 tests and before/after screenshots.",
   "worst": "Needs a specific Echo Show running a companion app, and reads the Eye token from a file as a fallback instead of only the secret store.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 153319,
   "name": "session-lock",
   "does": "Desktop plugin that lists Hermes active-session leases and lets you release stale 'chat open somewhere else' locks.",
   "useful": 2,
   "reliable": 2,
   "polish": 3,
   "creative": 2,
   "beyond": 3,
   "total": 15,
   "best": "Fixes a real annoyance with a status chip and confirmation before releasing live owners.",
   "worst": "Edits Hermes runtime files directly, ships a Windows-only installer and its one test file has no test functions.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 153920,
   "name": "huntapi",
   "does": "Four tools that fetch public video metadata and start video/audio download jobs through the paid HuntAPI service.",
   "useful": 3,
   "reliable": 4,
   "polish": 3,
   "creative": 1,
   "beyond": 3,
   "total": 17,
   "best": "Clean, small, stdlib-only client with the key via Hermes's secret scope and tools hidden until it is set.",
   "worst": "A thin wrapper of a commercial API, essentially a vendor connector.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 151546,
   "name": "wearos",
   "does": "Pairs a Wear OS watch with the Hermes gateway over its own tailnet node, with per-agent keys, watch delivery, cloned-voice TTS and a Desktop pane.",
   "useful": 3,
   "reliable": 4,
   "polish": 5,
   "creative": 5,
   "beyond": 5,
   "total": 27,
   "best": "Puts Hermes on the wrist as a new surface, with careful human-typed pairing, revoke, ~180 tests, screenshots and a demo.",
   "worst": "Very large and complex setup (tailnet, gated HF weights, built-from-source STT) for a niche of watch owners.",
   "standout": true,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 150659,
   "name": "callit",
   "does": "Turns group chats into a prediction league: calls, sides, auto-settled results from oracles, a leaderboard, and optional stakes via a Solana escrow.",
   "useful": 3,
   "reliable": 2,
   "polish": 4,
   "creative": 4,
   "beyond": 3,
   "total": 19,
   "best": "Persistent per-chat league with a cron referee that settles from real results, plus a written escrow program.",
   "worst": "Commits a devnet deployer keypair in escrow/devnet/deployer.json and has a referee key sign escrow settlements of staked money without a per-payment human approval.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 151976,
   "name": "recall-flashcards",
   "does": "SM-2 spaced-repetition flashcards in local SQLite, with a quiz offered at session start when cards are due.",
   "useful": 3,
   "reliable": 3,
   "polish": 3,
   "creative": 2,
   "beyond": 3,
   "total": 17,
   "best": "Real per-card scheduling state and hooks that a prompt cannot keep.",
   "worst": "A familiar Anki-style idea, and its tests sit in one file.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 153270,
   "name": "hermes-remote-hands",
   "does": "Lets a server-hosted Hermes drive your own Mac over OpenSSH: shell, file edit/search, tmux processes and screen control through cua-driver, all behind the approval gate.",
   "useful": 4,
   "reliable": 4,
   "polish": 4,
   "creative": 4,
   "beyond": 5,
   "total": 26,
   "best": "Extends where Hermes runs onto the user's own machine with no agent on the Mac, approval-gated and credential-file aware, with a demo and offline CI.",
   "worst": "Requires macOS plus SSH key setup and cua-driver, and the tests are few for such a powerful tool.",
   "standout": true,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 152210,
   "name": "tala",
   "does": "Configuration-only plugin declaring Tala's remote read-only MCP server and a skill to read Tala phone-agent calls.",
   "useful": 1,
   "reliable": 3,
   "polish": 3,
   "creative": 1,
   "beyond": 1,
   "total": 10,
   "best": "Honest, read-only, OAuth via Hermes's MCP flow.",
   "worst": "No code: an MCP entry and a skill that a user could add in one command, serving only paying Tala customers.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  }
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}