How to use Hermes Official Plugins: what you can do with it

5 use cases

• Control your Home Assistant devices from Hermes

  Install the Home Assistant plugin so Hermes can read entity states and call services on your home.

  • REPO NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins
  • Software and DevOps
  • Intermediate
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  In the repo NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins, install the homeassistant plugin into Hermes, then use ha_list_entities on the Home Assistant instance <instance-name>. Report the entity list and a state from ha_get_state for one entity <entity-id>. Verify that the entity count matches what Home Assistant shows in its own entity list.

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• Control Spotify playback and playlists with Hermes

  Add the Spotify plugin so Hermes can search, play, queue and manage your library and playlists.

  • REPO NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins
  • Software and DevOps
  • Intermediate
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  Using the repo NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins, install the spotify plugin and log in with `hermes spotify login` using my own developer app. Ask Hermes to search for <track or artist> with spotify_search and list devices with spotify_devices. Expected output is a search result list and a device list; verify that the device list shows the device you are using.

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• Scan code and dependencies for security issues with Snyk

  Install the Snyk plugin so Hermes can run code, dependency, container and IaC scans through Snyk's MCP server.

  • REPO NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins
  • Software and DevOps
  • Intermediate
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  Using the repo NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins, install the snyk plugin, complete snyk_auth, then run the snyk-security-scan workflow on <project-path>. Expected output is a summary of code, dependency and IaC findings; verify that the finding count matches the scan report shown in your Snyk account.

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• Trace every Hermes turn, tool call and cost in Langfuse

  Install the Langfuse plugin to send each turn, model call and tool call to Langfuse for review.

  • REPO NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins
  • Software and DevOps
  • Intermediate
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  In the repo NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins, install the langfuse plugin, then run one Hermes task that uses a tool. Open the Langfuse project <project-name> and report the span, generation and tool observation for that run. Verify that the reported usage and cost fields are present on the generation.

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• Run Hermes on your Claude Pro or Max subscription

  Use the experimental Claude Subscription plugin to run Hermes through the logged-in Claude Code CLI.

  • REPO NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins
  • Software and DevOps
  • Advanced
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  Using the repo NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins, install the claude-subscription-directsdk plugin, select it in `hermes model`, and send Hermes the prompt <test-prompt>. Expected output is a normal Hermes reply with no API key set; verify that the reply came from the plugin and not from another provider.

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Quick start with Hermes Official Plugins

1. Check you have what it needs: Hermes Agent installed (the README gives a curl install script in the hermes-agent repo); The hermes CLI available in your terminal; Accounts and credentials for the specific service you connect, such as Home Assistant, Spotify, Langfuse, Snyk or X.
2. Open NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins on GitHub and read the README and license.
3. Run hermes plugins info homeassistant to see what the plugin needs and which reviewed commit it pins. (inferred, check the README)
4. Run hermes plugins install homeassistant.
5. Set the Home Assistant settings that the plugin manifest lists, using your own instance details.
6. Ask Hermes to list your entities, then check one state with ha_get_state.

These steps come from our top use case, Control your Home Assistant devices from Hermes, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.

Using the Deduped MCP, get the setup steps for NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins

claude mcp add --transport http deduped https://dedupedai.com/mcp

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About this repo

• Who it is forHermes Agent users who want to connect their smart home, music, code scanning, chat or tracing tools to an agent, and developers who build or test plugins.
• Why it is hot344 stars, launched 16 days ago
• LanguagePython
• Sourcegithub.com/NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins · Back to Hot repos

Requirements

• Hermes Agent installed (the README gives a curl install script in the hermes-agent repo)
• The hermes CLI available in your terminal
• Accounts and credentials for the specific service you connect, such as Home Assistant, Spotify, Langfuse, Snyk or X
• Each plugin's own requirements, shown by hermes plugins info <name>

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