# Bento: Hermes Agent plugin

> Bento (bentonow.com) email marketing: subscribers, tags, fields, events incl. $purchase, stats, draft/scheduled broadcasts and transactional email, with dry-run + human-approval gates on every send.

Canonical: https://hermeswatcher.com/plugins/bento  
Tier: Community  
Official page (Nous Research): https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins/bento  
Last updated in catalog: 2026-10-06

Bento (bentonow.com) email marketing: subscribers, tags, fields, events incl. $purchase, stats, draft/scheduled broadcasts and transactional email, with dry-run + human-approval gates on every send. Native Python plugin, no dependencies.

## Good to know before installing

Sends real email (bento_email_send, bento_broadcast_schedule), and events, purchases and consent changes can trigger Bento Flows that email people; calls only app.bentonow.com (an operator base_url override is limited to https *.bentonow.com or loopback) with the BENTO_* keys from the profile .env; no telemetry, no self-update; T2/T3 calls go to the Hermes approval prompt, which asks no human under YOLO, approvals.mode off, or cron/single-query/unattended mode set to approve. T3 sends then still need a dry-run confirm token and hard guards, but T2 writes (events, purchases, consent, bulk upserts) need no token unless safety.tier2 is token_only; T1 writes (tags, tag/field definitions, drafts, upserts up to bulk_threshold) are never gated and still run under environment=disabled; environment=staging does not block sends, only environment=disabled blocks T2/T3.

From the plugin's catalog listing.

## How to install

1. Install it. Hermes asks for any API keys it needs (this one needs `BENTO_PUBLISHABLE_KEY`, `BENTO_SECRET_KEY`, `BENTO_SITE_UUID`), then asks whether to turn it on.

```bash
hermes plugins install bento
```

2. Said no? Turn it on later:

```bash
hermes plugins enable bento
```

3. Restart Hermes so it loads the plugin.

Some plugins also need a sign-in or settings: see the official page. Memory plugins ask whether to become your memory provider instead. Steps follow the official plugins guide: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/plugins

## Facts

- Category: Work & business
- Maintained by: shagghiesuperstar (Community)
- Needs: `BENTO_PUBLISHABLE_KEY`, `BENTO_SECRET_KEY`, `BENTO_SITE_UUID` (API keys)
- Adds tools: `bento_subscriber_get`, `bento_subscriber_upsert`, `bento_subscriber_tag`, `bento_subscriber_consent`, `bento_tag_list`, `bento_tag_create`, `bento_field_list`, `bento_field_create`, `bento_event_track`, `bento_purchase_track`, `bento_broadcast_list`, `bento_broadcast_create`, `bento_broadcast_schedule`, `bento_email_send`, `bento_stats`
- Requires Hermes: `>=0.21.5`
- Version: 0.1.0
- In the catalog since: 2026-10-06

## Links

- [Full setup and settings (official page)](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins/bento)
- [Source code](https://github.com/shagghiesuperstar/hermes-plugin-bento#readme)
- [All plugins](https://hermeswatcher.com/plugins.md)

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