# ElevenLabs Music: Hermes Agent plugin

> ElevenLabs Music for Hermes: describe a song or paste your lyrics and Hermes writes, generates and sends the track, 3 seconds to 10 minutes, vocals or instrumental.

Canonical: https://hermeswatcher.com/plugins/elevenlabs-music  
Tier: Official  
Official page (Nous Research): https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins/elevenlabs-music  
Last updated in catalog: 2026-10-29

ElevenLabs Music for Hermes: describe a song or paste your lyrics and Hermes writes, generates and sends the track, 3 seconds to 10 minutes, vocals or instrumental. It can redo one section, extend or loop a song, split it into stems (vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, other) and score a video. Long songs finish in the background and arrive in the chat. Bundles a music skill (prompting, composition plans, edit recipes) and, in Hermes Desktop, an inline music card with synced lyrics, format downloads and a music library tab. Model, audio format and endpoint are plugin settings.

## Good to know before installing

Uses your ElevenLabs API key (ELEVENLABS_API_KEY, the same key as Hermes's ElevenLabs voice; needs a paid ElevenLabs plan, and a restricted key needs the Music permission); compose, plan, upload, stems and video calls are paid generations billed to your ElevenLabs account by length (drafting a plan and listing finetunes are free). Only the prompt or plan, its parameters and any file you name are sent, to api.elevenlabs.io (or the data-residency endpoint you set); with store_for_editing on, ElevenLabs keeps generated songs so they can be edited later. Files are written to cache/generated/audio under the Hermes home and never overwritten. One Python dependency (httpx, already part of Hermes).

From the plugin's catalog listing.

## How to install

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

```bash
hermes plugins install elevenlabs-music
```

2. Said no? Turn it on later:

```bash
hermes plugins enable elevenlabs-music
```

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: Chat apps & voice, Images, video, music & 3D
- Maintained by: NousResearch (Official)
- Needs: `ELEVENLABS_API_KEY` (API key)
- Adds tools: `elevenlabs_music_compose`, `elevenlabs_music_compose_plan`, `elevenlabs_music_draft_plan`, `elevenlabs_music_upload`, `elevenlabs_music_stems`, `elevenlabs_music_from_video`, `elevenlabs_music_finetunes`, `elevenlabs_music_job`
- Requires Hermes: `>=0.22.0`
- Version: 1.0.0
- In the catalog since: 2026-10-29

## Links

- [Full setup and settings (official page)](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins/elevenlabs-music)
- [Source code](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins/tree/main/elevenlabs-music)
- [All plugins](https://hermeswatcher.com/plugins.md)

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