Current listing (both awesome lists)
- [beta] hermes-plugins — Goal management, inter-agent bridge, model selection, cost control
This was accurate in February 2026, when hermes-plugins was four plugins. It is not accurate now.
What happened since
The project has grown into the most-starred community plugin suite for Hermes (195 ⭐, 20 forks). The additions are not cosmetic — they involved real engineering at the protocol level:
Discord voice bridge. This is the heaviest lift. It connects Discord voice channels to the Gemini Live API via WebSocket — real-time bidirectional audio, tool calling during live conversation, typing feedback masking. Building it meant dealing with Discord CDN handshake quirks (the Amsterdam edge nodes reject the first 5 handshakes with code 4006 before accepting, so a single channel.connect() takes ~27 seconds of internal retries — you cannot just restart the gateway to "retry," you have to let one connect cycle complete). It also required solving stale reconnection bugs, serve_forever() lifecycle management, and playback restart semantics when Gemini falls silent mid-call.
WhatsApp bridge. Baileys-based WhatsApp messaging with full Hermes tool access. Messages route through the bridge to the gateway, enabling the agent to read and respond on WhatsApp like any other platform.
Plus the originals — goal management (Active/Backlog/Completed tracking), inter-agent bridge (Claude Code ↔ Hermes), model selection, and cost control — all still maintained.
Why the update matters
Someone browsing the awesome list and seeing "four plugins: goal management, inter-agent bridge, model selection, cost control" has no idea there is a working Discord voice bridge with Gemini Live integration in this repo. That is the most technically interesting piece and it is invisible in the current description.
Proposed listing
- [beta] [hermes-plugins](https://github.com/42-evey/hermes-plugins) by 42-evey — Plugin suite (195 ⭐): Discord voice bridge with Gemini Live, WhatsApp bridge, goal management, inter-agent bridge, model selection, cost control.
Author context
42-evey has submitted 9 PRs to Hermes core (8 merged), including context compression fixes, cron message tagging, Docker logging overhaul, and tool result trimming. This is not a drive-by submission — hermes-plugins is built by someone who has contributed meaningfully to the agent itself.
Current listing (both awesome lists)
This was accurate in February 2026, when hermes-plugins was four plugins. It is not accurate now.
What happened since
The project has grown into the most-starred community plugin suite for Hermes (195 ⭐, 20 forks). The additions are not cosmetic — they involved real engineering at the protocol level:
Discord voice bridge. This is the heaviest lift. It connects Discord voice channels to the Gemini Live API via WebSocket — real-time bidirectional audio, tool calling during live conversation, typing feedback masking. Building it meant dealing with Discord CDN handshake quirks (the Amsterdam edge nodes reject the first 5 handshakes with code 4006 before accepting, so a single
channel.connect()takes ~27 seconds of internal retries — you cannot just restart the gateway to "retry," you have to let one connect cycle complete). It also required solving stale reconnection bugs,serve_forever()lifecycle management, and playback restart semantics when Gemini falls silent mid-call.WhatsApp bridge. Baileys-based WhatsApp messaging with full Hermes tool access. Messages route through the bridge to the gateway, enabling the agent to read and respond on WhatsApp like any other platform.
Plus the originals — goal management (Active/Backlog/Completed tracking), inter-agent bridge (Claude Code ↔ Hermes), model selection, and cost control — all still maintained.
Why the update matters
Someone browsing the awesome list and seeing "four plugins: goal management, inter-agent bridge, model selection, cost control" has no idea there is a working Discord voice bridge with Gemini Live integration in this repo. That is the most technically interesting piece and it is invisible in the current description.
Proposed listing
Author context
42-evey has submitted 9 PRs to Hermes core (8 merged), including context compression fixes, cron message tagging, Docker logging overhaul, and tool result trimming. This is not a drive-by submission — hermes-plugins is built by someone who has contributed meaningfully to the agent itself.