The September 21 update to the plugin list for Hermes, a platform for AI agents, includes extensions for speech and search.
The collection includes hermes-speech: the plugin connects AllModels as a native speech synthesis and recognition provider, and supports streaming synthesis and voice transcription. The hermes-crawl4searxng plugin connects Hermes’s built-in web_search and web_extract tools to self-hosted SearXNG for search and Crawl4AI for data extraction.
OpenViking adds a bidirectional memory plugin to Hermes with tiered retrieval and automatic extraction at the end of a session. hermes-bot-forge lets a Hermes agent create a configured Bot Mode teammate from one sentence and roll back creation if a step fails.
Claim check:
- The September 21 update to the Hermes plugin list includes extensions for speech and search. (confirmed by the publication itself: evidence; «21.09.2026 e0c87eb Browser, Media & Other Backends allmodels-io/hermes-speech - Registers AllModels as a native Hermes TTS/STT provider, adding streaming speech synthesis, voice transcription, and conversational voice setup with one API key. tony-simons-aiowa/hermes-newswire - A model-free RSS/Atom/JSON-Feed ticker plugin for Hermes Desktop, showing a scrolling breaking-news strip and a searchable Newswire page with zero API keys or LLM tokens. GoSlowPoke168/hermes-crawl4searxng - Gives Hermes’s built-in web_search and web_extract tools a fully self-hosted backend — SearXNG for search, Crawl4AI for extraction»)
- The collection includes hermes-speech: the plugin connects AllModels as a native speech synthesis and recognition provider, and supports streaming synthesis and voice transcription. (confirmed by the publication itself: evidence; «allmodels-io/hermes-speech - Registers AllModels as a native Hermes TTS/STT provider, adding streaming speech synthesis, voice transcription, and conversational voice setup with one API key.»)
- The hermes-crawl4searxng plugin connects Hermes’s built-in web_search and web_extract tools to self-hosted SearXNG for search and Crawl4AI for data extraction. (confirmed by the publication itself: evidence; «GoSlowPoke168/hermes-crawl4searxng - Gives Hermes’s built-in web_search and web_extract tools a fully self-hosted backend — SearXNG for search, Crawl4AI for extraction — plus a cited save_finding note tool.»)
- OpenViking adds a bidirectional memory plugin to Hermes with tiered retrieval and automatic extraction at the end of a session. (confirmed by the publication itself: evidence; «volcengine/OpenViking - A full bidirectional MemoryProvider plugin bringing OpenViking’s viking:// context database — tiered retrieval, automatic session-end extraction, and semantic search — to Hermes Agent.»)
- hermes-bot-forge lets a Hermes agent create a configured Bot Mode teammate from one sentence and roll back creation if a step fails. (confirmed by the publication itself: evidence; «BkashJEE/hermes-bot-forge - Lets a Hermes agent spawn a fully configured Bot Mode teammate — identity, SOUL.md, memory, tools, routines, and gateway — from a single sentence, with rollback on any failed step.»)
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Primary sources:
- https://github.com/August06exe/ai-landing-consultant
- https://github.com/BkashJEE/hermes-bot-forge
- https://github.com/CliffWade/hermes-image-studio
- https://github.com/GoSlowPoke168/hermes-crawl4searxng
- https://github.com/MrLuciano/ai-memory-hermes-plugin
- https://github.com/NehuenD/hermes_mempalace
- https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-memory-wiki
- https://github.com/alexgreensh/token-optimizer
- https://github.com/allmodels-io/hermes-speech
- https://github.com/headlinearena/headlinearena-agent-plugin
- https://github.com/ranxianglei/billion-context
- https://github.com/tommulkins/hermes-plugin-session-analyzer
- https://github.com/tony-simons-aiowa/hermes-newswire
- https://github.com/volcengine/OpenViking
score 27.9 out of 100 · kind: release