# Hermes Adaptive Effort: Hermes Agent plugin

> Choose a separate scorer to set the reasoning effort of each Hermes request.

Canonical: https://hermeswatcher.com/plugins/hermes-adaptive-effort  
Tier: Community  
Official page (Nous Research): https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins/hermes-adaptive-effort  
Last updated in catalog: 2026-10-20

Choose a separate scorer to set the reasoning effort of each Hermes request.

## Good to know before installing

Off by default; when a mode is enabled (or on an explicit `/hae probe`), sends the latest user message (or the parent-written subagent goal), truncated to 4000 characters, plus any configured guidance to the scorer you select (TypeSafe Jev at api.typesafe.ai by default, or OpenAI Decisions, OpenRouter, Cloudflare Workers AI, Nace at console.nace.ai, or a custom URL) using that service's key; opt-in settings can also send the target model identity, up to 6 earlier user/assistant text messages (1200 characters each) and a separate continuation question to the same scorer; in Hermes Desktop it also sets the focused chat's session reasoning selector through the gateway `config.set` API after each applied change, and it keeps a prompt-free effort-change history (64 changes × 64 conversations), per-conversation mode overrides (at most 256 conversations) and per-route cache verdicts built from provider token counters (at most 128 routes) in its plugin data directory.

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 hermes-adaptive-effort
```

2. Said no? Turn it on later:

```bash
hermes plugins enable hermes-adaptive-effort
```

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: Automation & multi-agent, AI models & providers
- Maintained by: atostivint (Community)
- Needs: No API keys declared
- Requires Hermes: `>=0.21.6`
- Version: 0.4.0
- In the catalog since: 2026-10-10, updated 2026-10-20

## Links

- [Full setup and settings (official page)](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins/hermes-adaptive-effort)
- [Source code](https://github.com/atostivint/hermes-adaptive-effort/blob/c84f1389670cdd5ec4607b13bd32c4809878c415/docs/README.md)
- [All plugins](https://hermeswatcher.com/plugins.md)

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