# Field Academy: Hermes Agent plugin

> Learn Hermes by doing real work.

Canonical: https://hermeswatcher.com/plugins/field-academy  
Tier: Community  
Official page (Nous Research): https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins/field-academy  
Last updated in catalog: 2026-10-18

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

1. Install it. Hermes asks for any API keys it needs, then asks whether to turn it on.

```bash
hermes plugins install field-academy
```

2. Said no? Turn it on later:

```bash
hermes plugins enable field-academy
```

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: Everyday life & fun, Hermes Desktop add-ons
- Maintained by: Dgardenhire (Community)
- Needs: No API keys declared
- Adds tools: `field_academy_snapshot`, `field_academy_mission`, `field_academy_grade_explanation`, `field_academy_grade_review`, `field_academy_grade_deployer`, `field_academy_record_evidence`
- Requires Hermes: `>=0.22.0`
- Version: 0.8.5
- In the catalog since: 2026-10-17, updated 2026-10-18

## Links

- [Full setup and settings (official page)](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins/field-academy)
- [Source code](https://linchpin.studio/school-of-hermes/manual/)
- [All plugins](https://hermeswatcher.com/plugins.md)

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