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Hermes Bot Mode — Communication skill for Claude Code

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Bot Mode for the Hermes desktop: a roster of named agents with their own chats, avatars, routines, and bot-to-bot messaging.

How to install Hermes Bot Mode

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open NousResearch/Hermes-Bot-Mode and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Hermes Bot Mode does

Bot Mode for the Hermes desktop: a roster of named agents with their own chats, avatars, routines, and bot-to-bot messaging. Desktop plugin, no core patches.

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README

Hermes Bot Mode

**📦 ARCHIVED — Bot Mode now ships built into Hermes Desktop.** As of hermes-agent [#87886](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/87886), Bot Mode is a bundled, default-on Desktop plugin (toggle in Settings → Plugins) with the multi-source roster included — bots from every connection registered in Settings → Connections. Development continues in-tree at [`apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/`](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/tree/main/apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots). File issues and PRs against [NousResearch/hermes-agent](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent). No manual install is needed on current Desktop builds.

A **desktop-app plugin** for [Hermes Agent](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent) (installs where the desktop app runs — see Install) that turns your agent profiles into a roster of named bots — each with its own chat, avatar, personality, and schedule.

![Hermes Agent desktop plugin](https://img.shields.io/badge/hermes-desktop%20plugin-8b5cf6) ![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-green)

What you get

Bots pane — a left-side roster with one row per agent profile: avatar, latest-message preview, and timestamp. Click a bot to land in its chat, or use Sessions from its context menu to browse and filter its 200 most recent stored conversations.
Active now — a presence strip above the roster shows every bot currently working (the gateway-busy profile plus any bot that wrote within the last 90s), each chip opening its canonical chat. It never reorders the roster and disappears when the fleet is idle.
New Agent — create a bot in seconds: name, title, description. An Advanced disclosure opens the full profile config: clone from an existing profile, pin a provider/model, write a custom SOUL.md, skip bundled skills