Field Academy
Learn Hermes by doing real work. Four paths (Messenger, Traveler, Crossroads, Boundary Keeper) climb Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced to a capstone on a problem of your own, and a fifth, Guide, covers setting Hermes up for a client: practice labs built from made-up data, a proposal, one real service run by a scheduled job for several days, a recovery drill, and a review signed by a reviewer you choose. Every mission ends with a check on something you made; your own Hermes scores your written answers in a new chat; passed missions come back for short spaced reviews; and at the end of a path you can create a Field Record, your own self-issued learning record. Field Academy is an independent community plugin. It is not made, issued or endorsed by Nous Research.
Good to know before installing
No network calls (a source link opens in your browser only when you click it); no credentials, telemetry, shell commands, background processes or self-updates; registers six tools, two hooks, the /academy command and one skill: pre_llm_call may add one sentence offering a practice to the user message, only in interactive desktop, TUI and CLI sessions, and post_tool_call records which tool was used; pressing Try it or a scoring button opens a new chat and sends the practice or scoring prompt there (on an older Hermes it goes to the clipboard instead); the Desktop page calls gateway list methods only (session.list, cron.manage list, skills.manage list, tools.list, mcp.catalog, commands.catalog, setup.runtime_check); stores progress, pasted documents, practice labs, review packets and saved Field Records in $HERMES_HOME/plugin-data/field-academy/; reads a file you name (UTF-8 text, max 5 MiB) and hashes a recording you name without copying it; Guide labs write and check made-up .env and auth.json files inside its own labs folder (refusing to build in a real Hermes home) and never read Hermes's real ones; on the Guide path reads Hermes's run-history database read-only, jobs.json and up
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 field-academy - Said no? Turn it on later:
hermes plugins enable field-academy - 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
- Everyday life & fun · Hermes Desktop add-ons
- Maintained by
- Dgardenhire (Community)
- Needs
- No API keys declared
- Adds tools
field_academy_snapshotfield_academy_missionfield_academy_grade_explanationfield_academy_grade_reviewfield_academy_grade_deployerfield_academy_record_evidence- Needs Hermes
- 0.22.0 or newer
- Version
- 0.8.5
- In the catalog
- 2026-10-17, updated 2026-10-18
Full setup & settings ↗Source code ↗
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