Author Feed
Read one public profile and watch one account, with profile_get, author_feed and author_watch. It reads public posts and profiles from the Bluesky social media network, which is built on the AT Protocol (atproto), without signing in.
Good to know before installing
HTTPS GET only to public.api.bsky.app, no API key, and no program on your machine. The tools are on for every surface, including gateways, and ask for no approval: anyone you allow on your gateway can call them. Turn a surface off with hermes tools. While the plugin is enabled, its skill adds one line to the skills index of every session, including surfaces where the tools are turned off. hermes author-feed schedule creates one cron job, a model turn every hour by default (two or more model requests, no daily cap). Delivered to local unless you pass --deliver, so no chat by default. Run hermes author-feed unschedule before removal. A leftover job after the plugin is gone stops with hermes cron remove <id>. Under plugins.isolation: host the watch cannot run and posts a notice saying so on every run. The first run only records what is already there. One run reads at most the latest 3 pages and announces a new post by this account on them. When every row on those pages is new, with no saved post or mark, and the feed still offers another cursor, it also posts a possible-miss notice, at most once in 24 hours while that keeps happening. Replies, including the account's own thread contin
From the plugin's catalog listing.
How to install
- Install it. Hermes asks for any API keys it needs, then asks whether to turn it on.
hermes plugins install author-feed - Said no? Turn it on later:
hermes plugins enable author-feed - Restart Hermes so it loads the plugin.
Some plugins also need a sign-in or settings: see Full setup & settings. Memory plugins ask whether to become your memory provider instead. Steps follow the official plugins guide (opens in a new tab).
- Category
- Web, research & browsing
- Maintained by
- TakeshiTGAL (Community)
- Needs
- No API keys declared
- Adds tools
profile_getauthor_feedauthor_watch- Needs Hermes
- 0.21.4 or newer
- Version
- 0.1.1
- In the catalog
- 2026-10-13, updated 2026-10-23
Full setup & settings ↗Source code ↗
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