Awesome Hermes Agent

A hand-picked collection of skills, plugins, tools, integrations, and community resources for Hermes Agent — the self-evolving AI agent from Nous Research.

Hermes Agent is built around a closed learning loop — it generates skills from real experience, improves them while working, and starting from v0.12.0 runs an autonomous Curator that scores, merges, and prunes the skill library on a weekly cron cycle. It builds a growing model of who you are across sessions and retains that context persistently. You can host it on a $5 VPS, a GPU cluster, or one of seven serverless backends (Vercel Sandbox, Daytona, Modal, and more). Access it through any of 18 built-in messaging platforms — Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Feishu/Lark, WeCom, QQBot, Yuanbao, and others — plus Microsoft Teams through a plugin.

This list tracks the ecosystem building around it.

See also: awesome-openclaw — curated resources for OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot / Clawdbot), the predecessor agent with a native Hermes migration path.

Ecosystem snapshot (last reviewed: 2026-05-06)

• Hermes Agent: v0.12.0 (v2026.4.30) — "The Curator release"
• Core repo: NousResearch/hermes-agent (134k+ stars)
• Latest release notes: Hermes releases

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Where Do I Start?

If you're new to Hermes, start small instead of installing everything at once:

1. Get it running — Work through the Official Docs quickstart. It walks you through installation, CLI usage, configuration, and your first conversation.
2. Install your first skills — wondelai/skills (380+ stars, actively maintained) is a cross-platform skills library that works with Hermes and other agents. Or pick up litprog-skill (75+ stars) if you want literate programming support across Hermes, Claude Code, and OpenCode.
3. Get a GUI — hermes-workspace (500+ stars) is a Hermes-native workspace with chat, terminal, and a skills manager. If you need multi-agent fleet management, mission-control (3.7k+ stars) handles task dispatch and cost tracking at scale.

Once you're comfortable with the basics, explore the full list below. Every resource carries a maturity label:

Tag	Meaning
production	Stable, documented, actively maintained — safe to build on
beta	Works but still changing — expect some rough edges
experimental	Proof of concept or early-stage — informative, not dependable

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Contents

• Where Do I Start?
• Official Resources
• Skills & Plugins
  • Community Skills
  • Plugins
  • agentskills.io Ecosystem
  • Skill Registries & Discovery
• Tools & Utilities
  • Deployment
• Integrations & Bridges
• Detection & Media Forensics
• Multi-Agent & Swarms
• Domain Applications
• Forks & Derivatives
• Guides & Documentation
• Operational Playbooks
• Level-Up Blueprints
• Contributing
• License

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Official Resources

Repositories and resources maintained by Nous Research.

• Hermes Agent by Nous Research — The core project. A self-improving and self-maintaining AI agent with a closed learning loop, an autonomous hermes curator that grades and consolidates the skill library on a cron schedule (v0.12+), messaging support across 18 platforms (Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Feishu/Lark, WeCom, QQBot, Yuanbao, and more) plus Microsoft Teams via plugin, seven execution backends (local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal, Daytona, Vercel Sandbox), cron scheduling, MCP integration, profiles for multi-instance setups, pluggable model providers (Anthropic, ChatCompletions, Responses API, Bedrock), and fallback providers. 134k+ stars. Includes automatic migration from OpenClaw.
• autonovel by Nous Research — Autonomous long-form writing pipeline built on Hermes. Generates full manuscripts (100k+ words) end-to-end using the agent loop.
• hermes-paperclip-adapter by Nous Research — Run Hermes as a managed worker inside Paperclip companies. Connects the agent to Paperclip's task management and governance system.
• hermes-agent-self-evolution by Nous Research — Evolutionary self-improvement using DSPy and GEPA (Genetic Evolution of Prompt Architectures). The research pipeline for optimizing Hermes's own prompts and behaviors.
• Official Documentation — Complete docs covering quickstart, CLI, configuration, messaging gateway, security, tools, skills, memory, MCP, cron, ACP, API server, and architecture.
• Release Notes — Official changelog with feature highlights, migration notes, and fixes for each version.
• tinker-atropos by Nous Research — Standalone Atropos integration with the Thinking Machines Tinker API. RL training infrastructure for fine-tuning tool-calling models on real agent trajectories.
• Skills Hub — The open standard for agent skills. Compatible across Hermes, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and other agents.

Skills & Plugins

Skills are procedural memory — reusable capabilities Hermes builds from experience and sharpens during use. Plugins extend core functionality.

Community Skills

• [beta] hermes-plugins by 42-evey — Four plugins covering the most common operational needs: goal management, inter-agent bridging, model selection, and cost control. The inter-agent bridge is useful when running multiple Hermes instances side by side.
• [beta] hermes-skill-factory by Romanescu11 — Meta-skill that auto-generates reusable skills from your workflows. Aim it at a repetitive task and it creates a skill for it.
• [beta] litprog-skill by tlehman — Literate programming skill that works across Claude Code, OpenCode, and Hermes. Combines code and prose into documented, executable notebooks.
• [experimental] Wizards-of-the-Ghosts by Hmbown — Fantasy spell-themed skill pack. Wraps real development operations (refactoring, linting, testing) in a tabletop RPG interface.
• [experimental] super-hermes by Cranot — Trains Hermes to write better analytical prompts for itself before executing tasks. Adds a meta-reasoning layer where the agent generates stronger prompts before acting.
• [experimental] hermes-life-os by Lethe044 — Personal OS agent that detects daily patterns and learns your routines over time. Uses Hermes's memory system for lifestyle tracking, not just code.
• [beta] acca-tracker by Banozz — Multi-sport accumulator bet tracker for football, basketball, and tennis with live score monitoring. Detects sport per leg automatically, covers 30+ bet types, includes a scripts/scores.sh helper with TheSportsDB + ESPN fallback (NBA, WNBA, NCAA). 15-minute cron reports with per-leg status and overall acca health.