{ "batch": "read1-101", "plugins": [ { "pr": 0, "name": "done-bell", "does": "Rings an OS notification and chime (and shows a busy/done/needs-you chip in Desktop) when a Hermes turn finishes or waits for approval.", "useful": 3, "reliable": 4, "polish": 3, "creative": 2, "beyond": 3, "total": 18, "best": "Small, readable hook-based design whose handlers never raise, with a status tool, /bell command, Desktop pane and unit tests.", "worst": "A modest convenience feature with a README written around the author's own Windows paths and a manual step to copy the Desktop pane.", "standout": false, "blocked": null }, { "pr": 0, "name": "homeassistant", "does": "Official Home Assistant gateway platform (WebSocket state-change events in, persistent notifications out) plus four tools to list, read and control devices over the REST API.", "useful": 4, "reliable": 5, "polish": 4, "creative": 3, "beyond": 5, "total": 26, "best": "Adds a whole platform to Hermes with entity allow/deny lists, blocked service domains, a password-prompted token in Hermes's env and a large test suite.", "worst": "A port of a long-standing core integration rather than a new idea.", "standout": false, "blocked": null }, { "pr": 153545, "name": "tmux-live", "does": "Adds a Tmux tab to the Hermes web dashboard that lists the host's tmux panes, streams them in colour over a WebSocket and lets you type into them or kill processes.", "useful": 3, "reliable": 3, "polish": 4, "creative": 3, "beyond": 3, "total": 19, "best": "Careful backend: argv-only tmux calls, a strict pane-target whitelist, a fixed key set and no command-execution endpoint, with screenshots and a bilingual UI.", "worst": "No tests at all, and it relies entirely on the dashboard's auth gate for routes that can send keystrokes and kill processes on the host.", "standout": false, "blocked": null }, { "pr": 152256, "name": "nvidia-switchyard", "does": "Registers a Switchyard model provider and request hooks so Hermes routes each request to a local model first and escalates to a cloud model only when a verification check fails, with CLI, dashboard and Desktop pages.", "useful": 4, "reliable": 4, "polish": 5, "creative": 4, "beyond": 5, "total": 27, "best": "Changes what model Hermes runs on and where (local-first with verified cloud fallback), with a loopback sidecar, keys kept in Hermes's .env, consent for subscription sign-ins and an extensive test suite.", "worst": "Self-described beta that depends on an alpha PyPI runtime (nemo-switchyard==0.4.0a1) and a local server that returns token probabilities, so setup is heavy.", "standout": true, "blocked": null }, { "pr": 151265, "name": "clef-music-tools", "does": "Configuration-only package pointing Hermes at Clef's hosted no-auth music MCP (transpose chords, spell piano chords, tab to piano notes) plus a skill and an offline transpose script.", "useful": 2, "reliable": 3, "polish": 2, "creative": 2, "beyond": 2, "total": 13, "best": "Honest disclosure of what is sent to clefdrills.com and a small offline transposition helper.", "worst": "No plugin code of its own; the tools live on a remote server outside the pinned commit, and the README and skill are laced with UTM marketing links.", "standout": false, "blocked": null }, { "pr": 154072, "name": "acrylic", "does": "Desktop-only theme plugin that gives Hermes Desktop a Windows 11 Acrylic glass look with four presets, by syncing the host's translucency store and restyling surfaces.", "useful": 2, "reliable": 2, "polish": 4, "creative": 3, "beyond": 3, "total": 17, "best": "Detailed engineering notes and mockups for a genuinely native-looking Win11 acrylic theme, including a terminal transparency fix.", "worst": "No tests, and it works by overwriting the host's translucency store and force-losing xterm WebGL contexts, fragile hacks against Desktop internals for a cosmetic gain.", "standout": false, "blocked": null }, { "pr": 150241, "name": "gsc-magic", "does": "Configuration-only package that connects Hermes through a pinned mcp-remote to GSC Magic's hosted MCP for Search Console, Bing, GA4, IndexNow and Core Web Vitals SEO reports, plus a usage skill.", "useful": 3, "reliable": 3, "polish": 4, "creative": 2, "beyond": 2, "total": 16, "best": "Clear README and skill, a pinned mcp-remote version, OAuth sign-in and the server marked untrusted so Hermes asks before write tools.", "worst": "No code beyond a manifest and an MCP entry for a commercial hosted service; Hermes's native MCP support would do the same.", "standout": false, "blocked": null }, { "pr": 152818, "name": "unified-inbox", "does": "Reads, searches, triages and drafts replies across WhatsApp, Instagram and LinkedIn through the user's Unipile account, with digests, memory, scheduling, scam warnings and Desktop/dashboard views, sending only after per-message human approval.", "useful": 4, "reliable": 4, "polish": 5, "creative": 4, "beyond": 4, "total": 25, "best": "Sends go through a pre_tool_call approval hook that refuses to send when Hermes is in yolo mode, with hard-capped pacing limits, the API key as a secret config field, and around 340 tests.", "worst": "Very large surface (22 tools, cloud sync, webhooks) that rests on a paid third-party bridge to WhatsApp, Instagram and LinkedIn, which carries account-restriction risk the plugin can only soften.", "standout": true, "blocked": null }, { "pr": 151130, "name": "site-skills", "does": "Twelve SKILL.md files that each describe and link to one of the author's own health-directory, home-improvement or yacht-charter websites.", "useful": 1, "reliable": 2, "polish": 2, "creative": 1, "beyond": 1, "total": 8, "best": "Harmless and includes a not-medical-advice note.", "worst": "No code at all: it is site promotion packaged as skills, which a skill already is.", "standout": false, "blocked": null }, { "pr": 152452, "name": "half-life", "does": "Hooks post_tool_call and transform_tool_result to stamp read-only tool results (file reads built in) as FRESH, TTL_VALID, STALE or UNKNOWN and flag re-reads whose file changed.", "useful": 3, "reliable": 3, "polish": 2, "creative": 4, "beyond": 4, "total": 20, "best": "A fresh idea for agents: tells the model when a file it read earlier has changed, through result-transform hooks a skill cannot reach, and fails open.", "worst": "Only one regression script for the tests, a config file read outside Hermes's settings that can stop registration, and a README full of internal release caveats rather than setup.", "standout": false, "blocked": null }, { "pr": 151928, "name": "hermes-call-me", "does": "Gives Hermes three tools that phone the owner through CALL-E for approval, help or a report, checks a spoken PIN and a one-time code itself, and can block risky tools until a single-use phone approval exists.", "useful": 3, "reliable": 4, "polish": 4, "creative": 4, "beyond": 4, "total": 23, "best": "Fails closed throughout: the plugin rather than the voice agent compares the PIN, approvals are single-use and expire, one allowlisted number, daily cap, secrets come from Hermes's secret config, and there are tests.", "worst": "Needs a paid CALL-E account and a phone call per approval, and the risky-tool guard is off by default and matches tool names only by regex.", "standout": false, "blocked": null }, { "pr": 151795, "name": "inboxapp", "does": "Configuration-only package that points Hermes at Inboxapp's hosted MCP server for X, LinkedIn and WhatsApp DMs, plus four skills for triage, replies and pipeline work.", "useful": 2, "reliable": 3, "polish": 3, "creative": 2, "beyond": 2, "total": 14, "best": "Tidy multi-client packaging with a consistency check script, the server marked untrusted, and skills that tell the agent never to ask for or print a token.", "worst": "No code of its own, needs an Inboxapp team with API v2 (private rollout, 404 otherwise), and sending or deleting is left to the remote server and skill wording.", "standout": false, "blocked": null } ] }