# Hermes Council: Hermes Agent plugin

> LLM Council (karpathy/llm-council) as a Hermes plugin.

Canonical: https://hermeswatcher.com/plugins/hermes-council  
Tier: Community  
Official page (Nous Research): https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins/hermes-council  
Last updated in catalog: 2026-10-02

LLM Council (karpathy/llm-council) as a Hermes plugin. Four fixed advisor seats (First-Principles Analyst, Skeptic, Pragmatist, Researcher) answer in parallel, anonymously review and rank each other, and a Chairman model synthesizes the final answer. Members borrow your existing provider credentials - no API keys. Registers a Council group in every model menu, a council_deliberate tool, /council, hermes council CLI, and a desktop panel.

## Good to know before installing

Council_deliberate and the Council model fan each prompt (as a session model, the whole conversation) out to every seat, judge and chairman model you assign, up to 2N+1 billed calls per turn on your existing provider credentials; it also adds a non-secret "council" marker row to auth.json and keeps run history in $HERMES_HOME/council/runs/.

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-council
```

2. Said no? Turn it on later:

```bash
hermes plugins enable hermes-council
```

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: girayk (Community)
- Needs: No API keys declared
- Adds tools: `council_deliberate`
- Requires Hermes: `>=0.21.4`
- Version: 1.0.0
- In the catalog since: 2026-10-02

## Links

- [Full setup and settings (official page)](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins/hermes-council)
- [Source code](https://github.com/girayk/hermes-council#readme)
- [All plugins](https://hermeswatcher.com/plugins.md)

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