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  {
   "pr": 0,
   "name": "done-bell",
   "does": "Rings an OS notification, optional chime and a busy/done/needs-you status chip when a Hermes turn finishes or waits for approval.",
   "useful": 4,
   "reliable": 3,
   "polish": 3,
   "creative": 2,
   "beyond": 3,
   "best": "Small, readable hooks (on_session_end, pre/post_approval_request) that never raise and deliberately do not store approval command text.",
   "worst": "A thin, common idea with a short test file and a README whose install steps point at the author's own Windows path and a manual pane copy.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null,
   "total": 18
  },
  {
   "pr": 0,
   "name": "homeassistant",
   "does": "Gateway platform adapter that forwards Home Assistant WebSocket state changes to the agent plus four REST tools to list, read and control devices.",
   "useful": 4,
   "reliable": 5,
   "polish": 4,
   "creative": 3,
   "beyond": 5,
   "best": "Adds a whole messaging platform and device control with the token read through Hermes's secret store, entity allow/deny lists as a final veto, and ~2,300 lines of tests.",
   "worst": "An official port of a previously built-in integration rather than a new idea, and it needs a running Home Assistant instance.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null,
   "total": 26
  },
  {
   "pr": 154017,
   "name": "btw-studio",
   "does": "Desktop /btw side-channel that answers questions mid-turn without touching the transcript, plus a read-only state.db session radar, loop-guard detectors, mid-turn steering and a self-curated steer playbook.",
   "useful": 3,
   "reliable": 3,
   "polish": 4,
   "creative": 4,
   "beyond": 4,
   "best": "Genuinely deep Desktop integration (composer middleware, steer/subagent RPCs, read-only state.db radar) with a large test suite and CI.",
   "worst": "Most of the work lives in an 18,000-line runtime.py and a 10,000-line plugin.js that are very hard to review, and the README leans on jargon and a cited 'arXiv:2610.14224' paper the code cannot vouch for.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null,
   "total": 22
  },
  {
   "pr": 151705,
   "name": "provider-endpoint-healer",
   "does": "Probes the model endpoints listed in config with an anonymous GET /models at session start and on /peh, and recommends the healthiest one.",
   "useful": 2,
   "reliable": 4,
   "polish": 3,
   "creative": 2,
   "beyond": 3,
   "best": "Honest, small stdlib code with tests, timeouts, a non-blocking background probe and a README that says plainly it never switches providers or reads keys.",
   "worst": "Despite the name it heals nothing: it only prints a reachability ranking, and 401/403 counts as reachable, so it overlaps Hermes's own fallback_model with less use.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null,
   "total": 17
  },
  {
   "pr": 149353,
   "name": "source-trail-supervisor",
   "does": "Three tools and hooks that verify citation quotes against exact Unicode spans, withhold claims when sources contradict, and flag stuck loops from repeating tool-call fingerprints.",
   "useful": 2,
   "reliable": 3,
   "polish": 2,
   "creative": 3,
   "beyond": 3,
   "best": "Deterministic exact-span quote checking with size limits is a concrete guard against fabricated citations that a prompt alone cannot enforce.",
   "worst": "Three loosely related features glued from the author's other repos, covered by a single test in a shared multi-plugin test file, with a jargon-heavy README and no demo.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null,
   "total": 16
  },
  {
   "pr": 152750,
   "name": "aftercare",
   "does": "Remembers public URLs the agent said were deployed or live, re-checks them every few hours with one GET, and tells the agent at the next turn when one stops (or starts) answering.",
   "useful": 3,
   "reliable": 4,
   "polish": 4,
   "creative": 4,
   "beyond": 3,
   "best": "A fresh idea, holding the agent to its own past claims, built carefully: private and localhost addresses refused even after DNS or redirects, background checks, and context injected once per change.",
   "worst": "Claims are spotted by sentence regex, so it misses deploys described differently, and it only re-checks at session start or from a cron command the user must set up.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null,
   "total": 21
  },
  {
   "pr": 153960,
   "name": "on-air",
   "does": "Platform plugin that makes the user's Hermes agent a guarded live-stream co-host: reads Twitch chat read-only, filters bait, gates every line before captions or voice, and drives an OBS overlay with an owner approval desk.",
   "useful": 3,
   "reliable": 4,
   "polish": 5,
   "creative": 5,
   "beyond": 5,
   "best": "A full new place for Hermes to run (a stream stage) with layered safety: an llm_execution middleware refusing tool or memory context, owner-typed approvals, a privacy cut, OBS password via the secret surface, and about 180 test files plus an offline rehearsal mode.",
   "worst": "Very large (about 29,000 lines of Python, 24 tools) for a niche of streamers, so setup and review are heavy and voice latency is measured in seconds.",
   "standout": true,
   "blocked": null,
   "total": 27
  },
  {
   "pr": 150125,
   "name": "look-at-this",
   "does": "A hotkey, /look or composer menu captures the window you were just in (screenshot, accessibility tree, URL, selection, title) as one redactable packet attached to your next turn and discarded after 300 seconds.",
   "useful": 4,
   "reliable": 4,
   "polish": 4,
   "creative": 4,
   "beyond": 4,
   "best": "User-initiated, consent-first desktop context capture on Windows, macOS and Linux with a fail-closed password-manager exclude list, secret redaction, a companion token via the secret route, and 61 tests.",
   "worst": "Depends on the cua-driver binary and OS accessibility grants, with an 1,800-line core module and a separate companion process that make setup and review harder.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null,
   "total": 24
  },
  {
   "pr": 153746,
   "name": "hermes-focus-widget",
   "does": "A Pomodoro timer for Hermes Desktop whose focus time only runs while the agent is active, with a floating widget, status chip, /pomodoro command, session log and streak.",
   "useful": 2,
   "reliable": 4,
   "polish": 4,
   "creative": 3,
   "beyond": 3,
   "best": "Tidy, local-only code with five test files, screenshots, a settings page and a classic wall-clock mode.",
   "worst": "Tying the user's focus timer to the agent's activity is a questionable premise, and the hooks (including a pass-through transform_llm_output) only note activity.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null,
   "total": 19
  },
  {
   "pr": 153875,
   "name": "contagion",
   "does": "Marks a session tainted once it reads untrusted content and then runs its terminal, code and file tools in an OS jail (bubblewrap or sandbox-exec) with no network, hidden home and secrets, and approval-gated egress tools.",
   "useful": 3,
   "reliable": 4,
   "polish": 3,
   "creative": 5,
   "beyond": 5,
   "best": "A real terminal-environment provider that puts a prompt-injection wall at the OS layer rather than in prompts, with unit tests, an end-to-end jail check and an honest limits section.",
   "worst": "Needs bubblewrap with unprivileged namespaces or deprecated macOS sandbox-exec, has no Windows support, detects taint only by tool-name patterns, and the README install line still says <owner>/contagion.",
   "standout": true,
   "blocked": null,
   "total": 25
  },
  {
   "pr": 151078,
   "name": "bot-dashboard",
   "does": "Two Hermes Desktop sidebar panes showing the focused bot's profile, jobs, notes, widgets and vault tasks, and a group chat's members, activity and shared tasks.",
   "useful": 3,
   "reliable": 3,
   "polish": 3,
   "creative": 3,
   "beyond": 3,
   "best": "Read-only Desktop panes with tool-backed panel notes and widgets, two test files and graceful empty states when no notes vault is set.",
   "worst": "Most useful to people running several bot profiles with an Obsidian-style vault, and the dev deploy.sh copies itself into every profile by poking install venvs.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null,
   "total": 18
  },
  {
   "pr": 153825,
   "name": "hermes-shortcuts",
   "does": "Lets the agent write Cherri source for Apple Shortcuts, compile it in a network-less bubblewrap sandbox, sign it via RoutineHub on explicit consent, deliver it to the phone, and audit any .shortcut or iCloud link before install.",
   "useful": 3,
   "reliable": 4,
   "polish": 4,
   "creative": 5,
   "beyond": 4,
   "best": "Opens the iPhone's Shortcuts surface to Hermes from Linux with no Mac, verifying compiled output, decoding LZFSE/AEA in pure Python and refusing builds without a sandbox.",
   "worst": "Linux-only, needs an external Cherri compiler, and signing uploads the shortcut to a third-party service (RoutineHub), so it rests on tools it does not control.",
   "standout": false,
   "blocked": null,
   "total": 24
  }
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