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Awesome Hermes Agent — Ecosystem Inventory

The 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 autonovel.
• hermes-paperclip-adapter — run Hermes as a managed employee inside a Paperclip company. See hermes paperclip adapter.
• hermes-agent-self-evolution — evolutionary self-improvement using DSPy and GEPA (Genetic Evolution of Prompt Architectures). See 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 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 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 memory hindsight.
• honcho-self-hosted by elkimek (beta) — self-hosted Honcho memory backend for Hermes. See 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)

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

Relevant Concepts

• skills system
• memory system
• mcp integration
• deployment backends
• messaging gateway
• migration from openclaw
• self improvement loop
• ml research pipeline
• nous research
• hermes self evolution
• hermes paperclip adapter
• autonovel
• community awesome hermes
• community workspace
• community webui
• memory honcho
• 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