---
title: "Awesome Hermes Agent — Ecosystem Inventory"
type: summary
tags: [skills, mcp, tools, local-models, well-established, foundational, developer]
created: 2026-04-12
updated: 2026-04-12
sources: ["raw/awesome-hermes-agent-readme.md"]
confidence: high
hermes_version: "v0.8.0"
---

# Awesome Hermes Agent — Ecosystem Inventory

The [`awesome-hermes-agent`](https://github.com/0xNyk/awesome-hermes-agent) README is a curated directory of every known skill, plugin, tool, integration, fork, deployment helper, guide, and operational playbook in the Hermes ecosystem. Maintained by 0xNyk/Builderz. Licensed CC BY 4.0. Last ecosystem review dated 2026-04-03 at Hermes v0.6.0 (v2026.3.30) with the core repo reported at **23k+ GitHub stars**. Each resource is tagged `production` (stable, safe to depend on), `beta` (works but evolving), or `experimental` (learn from, don't depend on).

## Key Points

### Recommended three-step onboarding path

The README opens with a "Where do I start?" path for new users:

1. **Get running** — follow the Official Docs quickstart at `hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/`.
2. **Add your first skills** — install `wondelai/skills` (380+ stars, production, cross-platform) or try `litprog-skill` (75+ stars, beta) for literate-programming flows.
3. **Get a GUI** — either `hermes-workspace` (500+ stars, production — Hermes-native chat/terminal/memory/skills manager) or `mission-control` by builderz-labs (3.7k+ stars, production — broader agent orchestration dashboard with fleet management, task dispatch, cost tracking).

### Official Resources (maintained by Nous Research)

- **Hermes Agent** — the core repo, `NousResearch/hermes-agent`, 23k+ stars. Self-improving agent with closed learning loop, multi-platform gateway (Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Feishu/Lark, WeCom), six terminal backends, cron scheduling, MCP, profiles, fallback providers, native `hermes claw migrate` from OpenClaw.
- **autonovel** — autonomous novel-writing pipeline built on Hermes; generates 100k+ word manuscripts end-to-end. See [[entities/autonovel]].
- **hermes-paperclip-adapter** — run Hermes as a managed employee inside a Paperclip company. See [[entities/hermes-paperclip-adapter]].
- **hermes-agent-self-evolution** — evolutionary self-improvement using DSPy and GEPA (Genetic Evolution of Prompt Architectures). See [[entities/hermes-self-evolution]].
- **Official Documentation** — at `hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/`. Covers quickstart, CLI, config, messaging gateway, security, tools, skills, memory, MCP, cron, ACP, API server, architecture.
- **Release Notes** — on the GitHub releases page.
- **tinker-atropos** — standalone Atropos integration with Thinking Machines' Tinker API. RL training infrastructure for fine-tuning tool-calling models on real agent trajectories.
- **Skills Hub** — `agentskills.io`, the open standard for agent skills. Compatible across Hermes, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and other agents.
- **Discord** — `discord.gg/NousResearch` for bug reports and community.

### Skills & Plugins — Community Skills (9 projects)

- **hermes-plugins** by 42-evey *(beta)* — goal management, inter-agent bridge, model selection, cost control — four plugins covering operational needs.
- **hermes-skill-factory** by Romanescu11 *(beta)* — meta-skill that auto-generates reusable skills from your repeated workflows.
- **litprog-skill** by tlehman *(beta, 75+ stars)* — literate programming across Claude Code, OpenCode, Hermes.
- **Wizards-of-the-Ghosts** by Hmbown *(experimental)* — fantasy-themed wrapper over refactor/lint/test operations.
- **super-hermes** by Cranot *(experimental)* — adds meta-reasoning that makes Hermes write its own analytical prompts.
- **hermes-life-os** by Lethe044 *(experimental)* — personal OS agent tracking daily routines.
- **hermes-incident-commander** by Lethe044 *(beta)* — autonomous SRE agent for production incident detection and self-healing.
- **hermes-dojo** by Yonkoo11 *(beta)* — self-improvement monitor that identifies weak skills and iterates on them.
- **hermes-skill-marketplace** by Lethe044 *(experimental)* — agent that writes, tests, and publishes new skills autonomously.

### Skills & Plugins — agentskills.io Ecosystem (12 projects)

- **wondelai/skills** *(production)* — cross-platform skills for Claude Code and agentskills.io-compatible platforms. The recommended first install for new users.
- **Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills** by mukul975 *(production, 4k+ stars)* — 753+ structured cybersecurity skills mapped to MITRE ATT&CK. The most comprehensive security skills collection available.
- **chainlink-agent-skills** by Chainlink / smartcontractkit *(production)* — official Chainlink skills: oracle network data, CCIP, smart contract interaction.
- **black-forest-labs/skills** by Black Forest Labs *(production)* — official FLUX image generation skills.
- **pydantic-ai-skills** by DougTrajano *(production)* — Pydantic AI with agentskills.io support; type-safe schema validation for skill I/O.
- **cognify-skills** by Yarmoluk *(beta)* — 19 business-operations skills: CRM, invoicing, project management.
- **execplan-skill** by tiann *(beta)* — long-running task lifecycle with progress tracking, checkpoints, failure recovery.
- **maestro** by ReinaMacCredy *(beta)* — skill orchestration with Conductor planning + Beads tracking.
- **bmad-module-skill-forge** by armelhbobdad *(beta)* — converts repos/docs into agentskills.io-compliant skills.
- **Agentic-MCP-Skill** by cablate *(beta)* — MCP client with agentskills.io validation; bridges MCP tool servers to the skills standard.
- **ripley-xmr-gateway** by KYC-rip *(experimental)* — Monero (XMR) blockchain gateway for private crypto transactions from agent workflows.
- **skillsdotnet** by PederHP *(beta)* — C# implementation of agentskills.io with MCP integration.

### Skills & Plugins — Plugins (8 projects)

- **plur** by plur-ai *(beta)* — shared memory layer with open YAML engram format.
- **hermes-payguard** by nativ3ai *(experimental)* — safe USDC and x402 payments with spending limits and approval flows.
- **hermes-web-search-plus** by robbyczgw-cla *(beta)* — multi-provider web search across Serper, Tavily, Exa with intelligent routing.
- **hermes-weather-plugin** by FahrenheitResearch *(beta)* — NWS model imagery, NEXRAD radar, meteorological calculations.
- **hermes-wxtrain-plugin** by FahrenheitResearch *(experimental)* — ML pipeline for building training datasets from HRRR/GFS/ERA5 weather models.
- **hermes-plugin-chrome-profiles** by anpicasso *(experimental)* — switch browser tools between Chrome profiles via CDP.
- **hermes-cloudflare** by raulvidis *(experimental)* — headless browsing through Cloudflare's infrastructure.
- **evey-bridge-plugin** by 42-evey *(beta)* — Claude Code plugin bridging with Evey/Hermes so they share context and hand off tasks.

### Skill Registries & Discovery (2 projects)

- **hermeshub** by amanning3390 *(beta)* — community hub for browsing, sharing, and installing Hermes skills.
- **skilldock.io** by chigwell *(production)* — registry of reusable AI skills compatible with OpenClaw, Claude Code, Hermes. Established cross-platform marketplace.

### Tools & Utilities (11 projects)

- **hermes-workspace** by outsourc-e *(production, 500+ stars)* — web workspace with chat, terminal, memory browser, skills manager, inspector. Most complete GUI for Hermes. Built during the Nous Hackathon 2026. See [[entities/community-workspace]].
- **mission-control** by builderz-labs *(production, 3.7k+ stars)* — open-source agent-orchestration dashboard: fleet management, task dispatch, cost tracking, multi-agent coordination. Self-hosted, SQLite-powered.
- **hermes-neurovision** by Tranquil-Flow *(experimental)* — terminal neurovisualizer with 42 animated themes; decorative agent-activity overlays.
- **lintlang** by roli-lpci *(beta)* — static linter for AI agent configs and prompts with HERM v1.1 scoring.
- **nix-hermes-agent** by 0xrsydn *(beta)* — Nix package and NixOS module for fully reproducible deployments via Nix flakes.
- **openclaw-to-hermes** by 0xNyk *(beta)* — community migration tool from OpenClaw. Built when the native `hermes-migrate` had critical bugs; for Hermes v0.3.0+, prefer the native `hermes claw migrate` command.
- **vessel-browser** by unmodeled-tyler *(experimental)* — AI-native Linux browser with MCP control and autonomous browsing. Full browser built for agent use.
- **portable-hermes-agent** by rookiemann *(beta)* — Windows desktop app bundling 100 tools, GUI, local models, ComfyUI, workflows in one portable package.
- **hermes-webui** by sanchomuzax *(beta)* — lightweight process-monitoring and config dashboard; ops-focused alternative to hermes-workspace. See [[entities/community-webui]].
- **evey-setup** by 42-evey *(beta)* — one-command setup for the full hermes-agent stack with free models and 29 plugins.
- **flowstate-qmd** by amanning3390 *(beta)* — anticipatory memory with RAG and vector search; pre-fetches context before queries hit the agent.

### Tools & Utilities — Deployment (4 projects)

- **hermes-agent-docker** by xmbshwll *(beta)* — minimal Docker sandbox image.
- **hermes-agent-template** by Crustocean *(beta)* — production-ready Docker image for Crustocean cloud deployments.
- **portainer-stack-hermes** by ellickjohnson *(experimental)* — Docker Compose + Portainer + ttyd web terminal.
- **hermes-autonomous-server** by JackTheGit *(experimental)* — headless Hermes with systemd and cron on Linux.

### Integrations & Bridges (10 projects)

- **hermes-android** by raulvidis *(beta)* — Android device bridge with full Python toolset.
- **hermes-miniverse** by teknium1 *(beta)* — Miniverse pixel-worlds bridge. By a Nous Research co-founder.
- **hindsight** by Vectorize *(production)* — long-term memory layer with retain/recall/reflect workflows, integrated via plugin or MCP; supports semantic, graph, and temporal retrieval. See [[entities/memory-hindsight]].
- **honcho-self-hosted** by elkimek *(beta)* — self-hosted Honcho memory backend for Hermes. See [[entities/memory-honcho]].
- **zouroboros-swarm-executors** by marlandoj *(experimental)* — local executor bridge for Claude Code + Hermes task handoff.
- **reina** by Crustocean *(beta)* — autonomous Hermes-powered agent for the Crustocean platform.
- **hermes-agent-acp-skill** by Rainhoole *(beta)* — multi-agent delegation skill bridging Hermes, Codex, Claude Code; routes subtasks to the best-suited agent.
- **hermes-blockchain-oracle** by gizdusum *(experimental)* — Solana intelligence MCP server with on-chain analytics and wallet data.
- **hermes-council** by Ridwannurudeen *(experimental)* — adversarial multi-perspective council MCP server; multiple AI viewpoints debate before commitment.
- **NemoHermes** by Hmbown *(experimental)* — NVIDIA capability registry and Spark-aware routing layer for routing compute-heavy tasks to GPU infrastructure.

### Multi-Agent & Swarms (4 projects)

- **Ankh.md** by Abruptive *(experimental)* — TAW Agent x Hermes multi-agent swarm framework.
- **gladiator** by runtimenoteslabs *(experimental)* — two autonomous AI companies compete for GitHub stars. Hackathon project.
- **bigiron** by supermodeltools *(beta)* — AI-native SDLC with Hermes and Supermodel code graph.
- **opencode-hermes-multiagent** by 1ilkhamov *(beta)* — 17 specialised agents for OpenCode with structured interfaces.

### Domain Applications (11 projects)

- **hermes-embodied** by bryercowan *(experimental)* — self-improving robotics via VLA-model fine-tuning. Nous Hackathon.
- **hermescraft** by bigph00t *(beta)* — embodied Minecraft AI companion with persistent memory.
- **Hermes-mars-rover** by Snehal707 *(experimental)* — Mars rover simulator with ROS2 + Gazebo; uses skill-creation loop for nav improvement.
- **anihermes** by rodmarkun *(beta)* — local anime server/tracker with NL interface.
- **job-scout-agent** by Christabel337 *(beta)* — autonomous job-hunting agent.
- **hermes-ai-infrastructure-monitoring-toolkit** by JackTheGit *(beta)* — infra monitoring, cost forecasting, Telegram alerts via cron.
- **hermes-genesis** by Ridwannurudeen *(experimental)* — procedural autonomous living-world engine.
- **hermes-legal** by Lethe044 *(experimental)* — English/Turkish contract risk analysis.
- **hermes-startup-architect** by dlkakbs *(beta)* — investor-ready kit generator: market analysis, pitch deck, financials.
- **mercury** by hxsteric *(beta)* — multi-chain blockchain cash-flow analyzer with WebGL dashboard.
- **hermes-research-agent** by Aum08Desai *(experimental)* — autonomous LLM research agent handling literature review, hypothesis generation, experiment design.

### Forks & Derivatives (4 projects)

- **hermes-agent-camel** by nativ3ai *(beta)* — Hermes with integrated CaMeL trust boundaries for safety-critical deployments.
- **orahermes-agent** by jasperan *(experimental)* — Oracle OCI GenAI + Oracle 26ai enterprise integration.
- **hermes-alpha** by kaminocorp *(beta)* — cloud-deployed Hermes with pre-configured infrastructure templates.
- **hermes-skill-distillation** by beardthelion *(experimental)* — generates agentic training trajectories from real-world tasks for fine-tuning data.

### Guides & Documentation (3 projects)

- **hermes-agent-docs** by mudrii *(beta)* — community documentation covering v0.2.0 in detail; supplements official docs for deployment patterns.
- **hermes-wsl-ubuntu** by metantonio *(production)* — step-by-step WSL2 Ubuntu setup for Windows.
- **HermesWiki** by martymcenroe *(beta)* — community-maintained wiki for autonomous-agent patterns.

### Operational Playbooks (5 patterns)

1. **Nightly self-evolution + guardrail evaluation** — run `hermes-agent-self-evolution` on a schedule, then a second verification cron to score quality and block optimization-loop gaming.
2. **Memory pressure handling with Honcho/Hindsight** — if you're repeating context or losing long-term recall, review Honcho docs, evaluate Hindsight or self-hosted memory backends.
3. **Tune session timeout/expiry early** — adjust session retention for slower-moving threads so context is kept when needed.
4. **OpenClaw side-by-side migration** — keep both systems running during migration using `openclaw-to-hermes` and native migration paths, cut over once cron and routing behavior match.
5. **Curate USER.md and MEMORY.md intentionally** — treat profile memory as high-signal infrastructure: concise, durable, preference-focused entries, not raw notes.

### Maturity taxonomy (used throughout)

- **production** — stable, documented, actively maintained — safe to build on.
- **beta** — works but still evolving — expect some rough edges.
- **experimental** — proof of concept or early-stage — learn from it, don't depend on it.

### Inclusion criteria

Resource must be directly related to the Hermes Agent ecosystem or the `agentskills.io` standard, have a clear README, and be reasonably maintained. Contributions via GitHub issue at `0xNyk/awesome-hermes-agent`.

### Category totals (as of 2026-04-03 snapshot)

| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Official Resources | 9 |
| Community Skills | 9 |
| agentskills.io Ecosystem | 12 |
| Plugins | 8 |
| Skill Registries & Discovery | 2 |
| Tools & Utilities | 11 |
| Deployment | 4 |
| Integrations & Bridges | 10 |
| Multi-Agent & Swarms | 4 |
| Domain Applications | 11 |
| Forks & Derivatives | 4 |
| Guides & Documentation | 3 |
| Operational Playbooks | 5 |

**Total tracked resources:** ~90 across the ecosystem (excluding the 9 official Nous resources and 5 operational playbooks).

## Relevant Concepts

- [[concepts/skills-system]]
- [[concepts/memory-system]]
- [[concepts/mcp-integration]]
- [[concepts/deployment-backends]]
- [[concepts/messaging-gateway]]
- [[concepts/migration-from-openclaw]]
- [[concepts/self-improvement-loop]]
- [[concepts/ml-research-pipeline]]
- [[entities/nous-research]]
- [[entities/hermes-self-evolution]]
- [[entities/hermes-paperclip-adapter]]
- [[entities/autonovel]]
- [[entities/community-awesome-hermes]]
- [[entities/community-workspace]]
- [[entities/community-webui]]
- [[entities/memory-honcho]]
- [[entities/memory-hindsight]]

## Source Metadata

- **Type:** Curated "awesome list" README (Markdown)
- **Title:** Awesome Hermes Agent
- **Maintainer:** 0xNyk / Builderz (`builderz.dev`)
- **URL:** `https://github.com/0xNyk/awesome-hermes-agent`
- **License:** CC BY 4.0
- **Last ecosystem review date:** 2026-04-03
- **Hermes version at snapshot:** v0.6.0 (v2026.3.30)
- **Core repo star count at snapshot:** 23k+ on `NousResearch/hermes-agent`
- **File:** `raw/awesome-hermes-agent-readme.md`
- **Confidence:** high — directly mirrors the authoritative community directory; star counts and tags reproduced verbatim