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   "pr": 0,
   "name": "done-bell",
   "does": "Rings an OS notification and shows a Desktop status chip when a Hermes turn ends or needs approval.",
   "useful": 3,
   "reliable": 4,
   "polish": 3,
   "creative": 2,
   "beyond": 3,
   "total": 18,
   "best": "Small, never-raising hooks plus a Desktop pane and tests, no keys needed.",
   "worst": "README is a dev note with the author's local Windows paths and a manual pane copy step.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 0,
   "name": "homeassistant",
   "does": "Official gateway platform adapter plus four tools that read and control Home Assistant devices, with service policy and denylists.",
   "useful": 5,
   "reliable": 5,
   "polish": 5,
   "creative": 3,
   "beyond": 5,
   "total": 28,
   "best": "Real platform adapter with WebSocket events, token in the secret store and a large test suite.",
   "worst": "Familiar integration moved out of core, so little new.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 153585,
   "name": "hermeneus",
   "does": "Live translation of audio playing on the Mac: Scribe STT, Hermes-model translation, floating subtitle strip, Desktop pane, optional speech.",
   "useful": 4,
   "reliable": 4,
   "polish": 5,
   "creative": 5,
   "beyond": 5,
   "total": 28,
   "best": "Ambitious native audio capture and overlay pipeline with very large tests, docs, screenshots and failure messages; key kept in secret store.",
   "worst": "macOS-only (Windows preview) and needs a paid ElevenLabs key; some demo media still pending.",
   "standout": true,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 150893,
   "name": "costguard",
   "does": "Meters token usage per session and day from provider usage blocks, warns and blocks tool calls once a budget is exceeded.",
   "useful": 4,
   "reliable": 4,
   "polish": 3,
   "creative": 3,
   "beyond": 4,
   "total": 22,
   "best": "Hooks enforce a spend budget and the README is honest about estimates and limits; has tests.",
   "worst": "Cannot stop the reply already generating, no Desktop UI or screenshots.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 153733,
   "name": "margin",
   "does": "Gateway platform that turns '@hermes' Google Docs/Slides/Sheets comments into Hermes chat threads and can apply suggested edits.",
   "useful": 3,
   "reliable": 4,
   "polish": 4,
   "creative": 4,
   "beyond": 5,
   "total": 25,
   "best": "A new platform adapter with OAuth through Hermes auth, tests and a demo gif.",
   "worst": "Needs the user to create their own Google Cloud OAuth client; polling and niche audience.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 153769,
   "name": "hermes-tube",
   "does": "Brings YouTube subscriptions into Hermes Desktop with folders, tabs, model-built topic tabs, cleanup and a browser extension.",
   "useful": 3,
   "reliable": 4,
   "polish": 5,
   "creative": 4,
   "beyond": 5,
   "total": 26,
   "best": "Full product: Desktop page, tools, RPC, extension, local DB, many tests and screenshots with sample data.",
   "worst": "Huge surface incl. a 960KB bundled desktop plugin.js and browser extension that are hard to review; YouTube-specific.",
   "standout": true,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 152237,
   "name": "agentstatus-alabama+99-more",
   "does": "Config-only package connecting Hermes to a public hosted Alabama DMV MCP server.",
   "useful": 2,
   "reliable": 3,
   "polish": 2,
   "creative": 1,
   "beyond": 2,
   "total": 12,
   "best": "Marks the server untrusted and needs no key.",
   "worst": "No code, minimal docs, one of 100 templated near-identical entries.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 150544,
   "name": "netease-cloud",
   "does": "Desktop status-bar NetEase Cloud Music player with search, lyrics, likes and playlists via a local FastAPI backend.",
   "useful": 3,
   "reliable": 2,
   "polish": 4,
   "creative": 3,
   "beyond": 4,
   "total": 20,
   "best": "Polished Desktop player with screenshots and bilingual README, stdlib-only crypto.",
   "worst": "Stores the MUSIC_U login cookie in a plain file instead of Hermes's secret store; no tests.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 150546,
   "name": "hindsight-curator",
   "does": "Bulk scan, dry-run plan, invalidate and roll back stale Hindsight memories from chat tools or a Desktop page.",
   "useful": 3,
   "reliable": 4,
   "polish": 4,
   "creative": 4,
   "beyond": 4,
   "total": 23,
   "best": "Safe dry-run plan plus journal-based restore, fake-server e2e tests and a Desktop page.",
   "worst": "Depends on a Hindsight server, and one screenshot file is a stub placeholder.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 150906,
   "name": "mentionagent",
   "does": "Skill plus remote-MCP config for MentionAgent's hosted link-building outreach service, with sending behind approval.",
   "useful": 2,
   "reliable": 3,
   "polish": 3,
   "creative": 2,
   "beyond": 2,
   "total": 14,
   "best": "Skill marks which tools send email or spend credits and the server is untrusted.",
   "worst": "No code of its own, a Claude skill repackaged for a paid third-party service.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 150646,
   "name": "argorant",
   "does": "Skill plus remote-MCP config connecting to Argorant's hosted lead search and email campaign service via OAuth.",
   "useful": 3,
   "reliable": 3,
   "polish": 4,
   "creative": 2,
   "beyond": 2,
   "total": 16,
   "best": "Clear README, OAuth instead of keys, untrusted trust level so spending and sending asks first.",
   "worst": "No code, just a wrapper for a paid hosted service a skill plus MCP config could do.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null
  },
  {
   "pr": 150422,
   "name": "daily-edition",
   "does": "Desktop personal newspaper compiled from user interests with clustering, back issues, optional editorial voices and a daily_edition tool.",
   "useful": 3,
   "reliable": 4,
   "polish": 5,
   "creative": 4,
   "beyond": 4,
   "total": 24,
   "best": "Finished product with a Desktop UI, print pipeline, CI and a deep Python and JS test suite.",
   "worst": "Reliant on Google News RSS personal-use terms, and its optional model key is read from an env var.",
   "standout": true,
   "blocked": null
  }
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