Degeneracy Guard
Asks the user to confirm a tool call whose arguments look like a repetition loop rather than data, through Hermes' approval gate (denied or unanswered means refused); replaces flagged degenerate output with a short notice; warns when a session grows long.
Good to know before installing
No network, shell, subprocesses, own threads, telemetry or credentials; writes incident records and a session counter to its plugin data directory; a stream-side record keeps the last 800 characters of flagged output.
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 degeneracy-guard - Said no? Turn it on later:
hermes plugins enable degeneracy-guard - 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
- Security & privacy
- Maintained by
- simin-yuan (Community)
- Needs
- No API keys declared
- Needs Hermes
- 0.22.2 or newer
- Version
- 1.3.0
- In the catalog
- 2026-10-20
- GitHub stars
- 2
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