Effortless Hermes
Picks the reasoning effort for every prompt: a fast judge (Jev/TypeSafe, a local OpenAI-compatible model, or any custom API) reads the next message once per turn and rewrites the request's reasoning effort before it ships — easy questions run cheap, hard jobs get high. Port of effortless for Claude Code.
Good to know before installing
Sends the next message (≤4000 chars) plus a short recent-conversation excerpt (≤1600 chars) to the configured judge endpoint (default api.typesafe.ai for Jev; a local or custom OpenAI-compatible API otherwise), solely to pick the effort; the optional model_map setting (off by default) also switches the turn's model to the one you map to the verdict; keeps recent per-turn token counts in its own plugin state; no telemetry; secrets resolved only through Hermes' secret scope; stdlib-only, no pip dependencies.
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 effortless-hermes - Said no? Turn it on later:
hermes plugins enable effortless-hermes - 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
- AI models & providers
- Maintained by
- ivcained (Community)
- Needs
- No API keys declared
- Needs Hermes
- 0.21.7 or newer
- Version
- 0.4.0
- In the catalog
- 2026-10-16, updated 2026-10-18
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