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   "pr": 0,
   "name": "done-bell",
   "does": "Rings an OS notification and 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": "Uses real lifecycle hooks (on_session_end, pre_approval_request) plus a Desktop pane so it does something a skill cannot.",
   "worst": "Small tests only, and the README tells users to hand-copy the Desktop pane with a Windows path from the author's own machine.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 0,
   "name": "homeassistant",
   "does": "Official Home Assistant gateway platform adapter plus four REST tools to list, read and control smart-home entities.",
   "useful": 4,
   "reliable": 5,
   "polish": 4,
   "creative": 3,
   "beyond": 5,
   "total": 26,
   "best": "A full platform adapter (WebSocket event bus to agent, replies as HA notifications) with entity allow/deny lists and a large test suite.",
   "worst": "Smart-home control is a well-known integration, so it is not new as an idea.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 153886,
   "name": "spawn-backrooms",
   "does": "Connects Hermes over OAuth to the SPAWN job marketplace to browse, accept, work, deliver files for and submit assigned jobs, with approval prompts, a lease keeper and a Desktop pane.",
   "useful": 2,
   "reliable": 4,
   "polish": 3,
   "creative": 4,
   "beyond": 4,
   "total": 21,
   "best": "Careful engineering: native OAuth, terms re-checked against human approval before accept/submit, idempotent envelopes and a large test suite.",
   "worst": "Only useful to SPAWN marketplace workers, and its own README says it is a development preview with live acceptance incomplete and a private repository.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 151445,
   "name": "qeemah-zatca",
   "does": "Two tools that compute Saudi 15% VAT and run four simple format/arithmetic checks on invoice fields for ZATCA Phase 2.",
   "useful": 2,
   "reliable": 2,
   "polish": 2,
   "creative": 1,
   "beyond": 2,
   "total": 11,
   "best": "Deterministic, dependency-free VAT math with tool_error handling for bad amounts.",
   "worst": "Claims ZATCA Phase 2 compliance validation 'against Schematron rules' but the code checks only a UUID regex, VAT-number shape, ICV>=1 and totals, ignores issue_date/time, has no tests, and its passed_checks count can go negative.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 152634,
   "name": "1toolring",
   "does": "Config-only package that adds 1ToolRing's hosted pay-per-call MCP server (search, SEO, maps, prices, FX) to Hermes with an API key from the secret store.",
   "useful": 3,
   "reliable": 3,
   "polish": 3,
   "creative": 2,
   "beyond": 3,
   "total": 17,
   "best": "Key comes from Hermes's secret config and the server is marked untrusted so Hermes asks before paid run_tool calls.",
   "worst": "No local code at all: it is an MCP URL plus a skill for a commercial reseller, and the tool list lives on the remote server outside the pinned commit.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 152955,
   "name": "hermes-anchor",
   "does": "A context engine that deterministically detects decisions, amounts and dates, pins them, and on compression re-inserts them verbatim while folding the middle into a capped extractive digest with zero model calls.",
   "useful": 3,
   "reliable": 3,
   "polish": 3,
   "creative": 4,
   "beyond": 5,
   "total": 23,
   "best": "Replaces Hermes's context engine via register_context_engine, with tests that compress 100 times and check pins never drift.",
   "worst": "Pins live in one global pins.json shared by every session and never expire, so facts from one conversation are injected into all others and the carrier grows without bound.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 150490,
   "name": "hermes-windows-network",
   "does": "Two read-only tools that list Windows network adapters and diagnose one adapter's IP, gateway and DNS via PowerShell NetAdapter cmdlets in a language-independent way.",
   "useful": 3,
   "reliable": 4,
   "polish": 3,
   "creative": 3,
   "beyond": 3,
   "total": 19,
   "best": "Thoughtful engineering: language-independent cmdlet fields, timeouts and typed errors, no console flash, plus unit tests and a validation note.",
   "worst": "Narrow scope (Windows only, two read-only queries) that an agent with a terminal could largely reproduce with ipconfig.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 149369,
   "name": "reduck",
   "does": "Config-only package that adds Reduck's hosted MCP server so the agent can run or create browser scripts on any website in the user's own signed-in Chrome or a hosted browser.",
   "useful": 3,
   "reliable": 2,
   "polish": 3,
   "creative": 3,
   "beyond": 3,
   "total": 17,
   "best": "Honest README that discloses the side effects (posting, buying as you) and a known reconnect bug, with the key held in Hermes's secret config.",
   "worst": "No local code and no approval gating: the server is not marked untrusted, yet its scripts can post or buy as the user, and the tool list is not in the pinned commit.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 152974,
   "name": "hey-pcb",
   "does": "Packages HeyPCB's MCP server (pinned npm @heypcb/mcp) with per-tool cost declarations, a spend limit and a workflow skill to design, quote and order KiCad PCBs from a text brief.",
   "useful": 2,
   "reliable": 3,
   "polish": 3,
   "creative": 4,
   "beyond": 3,
   "total": 18,
   "best": "Spend-aware manifest: server marked untrusted with declared per-tool costs and a per-chat spend limit so paid calls need approval.",
   "worst": "No code of its own: all the work is in a third-party npx package fetched at launch, and the pinned commit has no tests.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 149564,
   "name": "certarc",
   "does": "Config-only package pointing Hermes at CertArc's free hosted MCP endpoint for CISM/CISSP/CISA practice questions, exam outlines and study guides.",
   "useful": 2,
   "reliable": 3,
   "polish": 3,
   "creative": 2,
   "beyond": 2,
   "total": 14,
   "best": "No key, no local code, and a clear data-handling section with an honest list of limits.",
   "worst": "Essentially a marketing funnel to a hosted quiz endpoint (links are tagged for sign-up tracking); nothing here a URL bookmark plus a skill could not do.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 151616,
   "name": "sourcebind",
   "does": "Binds a job to a local JSON source file and, via a pre_tool_call hook, blocks a selected tool if its job/customer_id arguments do not match the current file.",
   "useful": 2,
   "reliable": 3,
   "polish": 3,
   "creative": 3,
   "beyond": 4,
   "total": 19,
   "best": "A real execution-boundary guard using pre_tool_call, subagent_start and post_compaction hooks, with a standard-library test suite and a demo video.",
   "worst": "The use case is narrow and contrived (one customer_id field against a JSON file), and the only protected tool shipped is a fictional demo updater.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 151376,
   "name": "joust",
   "does": "Races 2 to 4 coding subagents in isolated Git worktrees, judges them with the user's tests plus cross-testing (Crossfire), and merges the winner only after human approval, with a Desktop arena.",
   "useful": 4,
   "reliable": 4,
   "polish": 4,
   "creative": 5,
   "beyond": 5,
   "total": 27,
   "best": "Uses tool_request middleware, subagent lifecycle hooks and pre_tool_call approval to do real per-child worktree isolation that no prompt could, with a no-key /joust demo and extensive tests.",
   "worst": "Big and complex (a 90 KB engine file), Linux/macOS only, and the README still has a <VIDEO_URL> placeholder for the demo.",
   "standout": true,
   "blocked": null
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