Hermes Bot Mode

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.

 

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