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    {
      "pr": 0,
      "name": "done-bell",
      "does": "Uses Hermes lifecycle and approval hooks to show a busy/done/needs-you status and alert when a turn finishes.",
      "useful": 3,
      "reliable": 4,
      "polish": 3,
      "creative": 2,
      "beyond": 4,
      "total": 20,
      "best": "A small, correctly scoped notification integration using several genuine agent lifecycle hooks.",
      "worst": "The feature is a familiar notifier with only a compact local test module and an awkward manual Desktop-pane copy step.",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 0,
      "name": "homeassistant",
      "does": "Provides a Home Assistant gateway adapter plus tools to query and control smart-home entities and services.",
      "useful": 5,
      "reliable": 5,
      "polish": 5,
      "creative": 3,
      "beyond": 5,
      "total": 28,
      "best": "It is a complete, tested platform integration with event delivery, entity filtering, and safe control boundaries.",
      "worst": "Smart-home integration is an established category rather than a novel agent capability.",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 153549,
      "name": "flota",
      "does": "Routes Hermes subagents to the user's SSH machines, wakes them when needed, and sleeps them after their work is done.",
      "useful": 5,
      "reliable": 4,
      "polish": 5,
      "creative": 5,
      "beyond": 5,
      "total": 29,
      "best": "It deeply extends delegation with guarded machine lifecycle management, extensive documentation, Desktop UI, and a broad test suite.",
      "worst": "Its own documentation identifies private core imports and some hardware-dependent power paths as compatibility and real-world risks.",
      "standout": true,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 153596,
      "name": "sentinel-vision",
      "does": "Watches cameras, screens, streams, folders, or video for natural-language visual rules and injects confirmed alerts into Hermes chats.",
      "useful": 4,
      "reliable": 4,
      "polish": 5,
      "creative": 5,
      "beyond": 5,
      "total": 28,
      "best": "This is a highly finished agent-native vision monitor with local gating, budgets, confirmations, event memory, dashboard UI, and extensive tests.",
      "worst": "Its live evidence explicitly leaves Desktop, messaging-photo delivery, and the latest real-camera path unverified.",
      "standout": true,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 153577,
      "name": "seatbelt",
      "does": "Intercepts trading-looking tool calls to enforce local order, leverage, venue, and approval limits, with a paper-trading mode.",
      "useful": 3,
      "reliable": 2,
      "polish": 1,
      "creative": 4,
      "beyond": 5,
      "total": 20,
      "best": "The implementation makes a serious attempt to fail closed across hooks and middleware, including durable limits and human-only live controls.",
      "worst": "The pinned submission has no README and no tests, leaving a safety-critical integration hard to validate or operate.",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 149883,
      "name": "dirtside",
      "does": "Pairs personal devices with a Hermes gateway so terminal work can be targeted to a user's local machine through a signed relay.",
      "useful": 4,
      "reliable": 1,
      "polish": 1,
      "creative": 5,
      "beyond": 5,
      "total": 21,
      "best": "Its signed device protocol and terminal-environment-provider integration address a meaningful own-hardware agent use case.",
      "worst": "At the pinned revision it has neither plugin manifest nor README nor tests, so the catalog entry is not a dependable installable product.",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 153038,
      "name": "formwork",
      "does": "Inspects, fills, renders, and verifies constrained PDF AcroForms while requiring source-backed, user-reviewed proposed answers.",
      "useful": 3,
      "reliable": 1,
      "polish": 1,
      "creative": 4,
      "beyond": 4,
      "total": 17,
      "best": "The PDF engine is unusually conservative about unsupported forms, source quotes, and explicit user review before export.",
      "worst": "The pinned tree lacks a manifest, README, tests, and the promised Desktop workspace implementation, making the submission incomplete as a catalog plugin.",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 153365,
      "name": "lumina",
      "does": "Searches and manages Apple Photos locally while detecting sensitive documents, creating verified redactions, and guarding outbound image leaks.",
      "useful": 4,
      "reliable": 4,
      "polish": 5,
      "creative": 5,
      "beyond": 5,
      "total": 28,
      "best": "It combines an exceptionally polished macOS photo experience with plugin-enforced redaction and cross-tool leak checks that a prompt cannot provide.",
      "worst": "It is macOS-only, and its outbound ID guard explicitly fails open if its inspection itself errors.",
      "standout": true,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 149313,
      "name": "hermes-ros",
      "does": "Lets Hermes observe and drive ROS/ROS 2 robots over rosbridge, including a mock robot, through a safety interlock.",
      "useful": 3,
      "reliable": 4,
      "polish": 5,
      "creative": 5,
      "beyond": 5,
      "total": 27,
      "best": "A strong, demonstrable robotics plugin that pairs real tools with speed, duration, geofence, allowlist, and emergency-stop controls.",
      "worst": "Robotics is a specialized audience, and safety guarantees are necessarily constrained by rosbridge configuration and real-world hardware.",
      "standout": false,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 152544,
      "name": "crystallize",
      "does": "Measures and reduces repeated chat and cron work through context controls, guarded cost experiments, run brakes, and reviewed automation aids.",
      "useful": 4,
      "reliable": 4,
      "polish": 5,
      "creative": 5,
      "beyond": 5,
      "total": 28,
      "best": "It is a remarkably broad, carefully documented and tested attempt to make Hermes cheaper without silently lowering the user's chosen reasoning.",
      "worst": "The wide surface area and dependence on optional host capabilities make several advanced optimizations unavailable or only conditionally proven.",
      "standout": true,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 153050,
      "name": "mandate",
      "does": "Learns an argument-level least-privilege policy for Hermes jobs and blocks out-of-mandate tool calls in unattended runs.",
      "useful": 5,
      "reliable": 5,
      "polish": 5,
      "creative": 5,
      "beyond": 5,
      "total": 30,
      "best": "It turns observed behavior into human-approved, enforceable per-job boundaries at the tool loop, with drift review, benchmarks, documentation, and tests.",
      "worst": "It is aimed chiefly at cron and unattended-job security, so users must first collect representative behavior before an effective mandate can be approved.",
      "standout": true,
      "blocked": null
    },
    {
      "pr": 154010,
      "name": "own-compute",
      "does": "Provides a Desktop and tool-based control plane for sandboxed environments, Slurm jobs, and agents on user-owned SSH, local, or EC2 compute.",
      "useful": 5,
      "reliable": 5,
      "polish": 5,
      "creative": 5,
      "beyond": 5,
      "total": 30,
      "best": "A deeply integrated own-compute platform with approvals, lifecycle controls, Desktop UI, safety documentation, broad tests, and explicit handling of costly operations.",
      "worst": "Its very broad infrastructure scope leaves meaningful platform and cloud-provider limitations despite strong safeguards and documentation.",
      "standout": true,
      "blocked": null
    }
  ]
}