Evalroute
Route a task to the right (model, reasoning effort) arm before you start. Classifies the task into a lane, prints a provenance-carrying route card, and installs per-model reasoning-effort defaults. Strong rules run locally; weak-signal classification calls the host LLM and consumes tokens. The separate harness and shim can make paid provider calls when explicitly run; no plugin-owned credentials.
Good to know before installing
Weak-signal task classification sends the task text to your active Hermes model via the host LLM facade (token cost). The model-callable tool, /route, /rate and observed /model and /reasoning commands append task text and command args to a local ledger at <HERMES_HOME>/evalroute/labels.jsonl. "hermes evalroute install-routes" rewrites agent.reasoning_overrides in config.yaml when you run it. The bundled harness and Hermes shim are never run by the plugin. When run by hand they make paid provider calls, execute model-generated code on the host via shell checkers, and run hermes -z with approvals bypassed. Disclosure — "hermes evalroute sync" (run by hand) downloads the route table from the Hugging Face dataset keppy/evalroute-flywheel into HERMES_HOME and route cards then show that dataset's text; "hermes evalroute dispatch" (run by hand) spawns a single-query hermes chat on the routed model (Nous provider by default) — or, with --runner claude-code, a `claude -p` (Claude Code) process under the user's own Claude account, whose per-run cost is recorded in the local sidecar — with the brief as its query, inheriting the current environment except HERMES_YOLO_MODE (the worker never inh
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How to install
- Install it. Hermes asks for any API keys it needs, then asks whether to turn it on.
hermes plugins install evalroute - Said no? Turn it on later:
hermes plugins enable evalroute - 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
- keppy (Community)
- Needs
- No API keys declared
- Adds tools
evalroute_route- Needs Hermes
- 0.21 or newer
- Version
- 0.6.4
- In the catalog
- 2026-10-02, updated 2026-10-06
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