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Hermes Monitor

Kanban worker health in the Desktop status bar — live activity per running card with stall and loop detection (same tool + same arguments repeated), plus a compact per-provider quota readout (the related ai-usage-tracker plugin covers quota windows as a standalone feature). Zero model tokens.

Good to know before installing

Opens HERMES_HOME/kanban.db and each profile's state.db read-only for worker activity; for quota chips it reads every Hermes profile's credential pool (each profile's auth.json, with that profile's .env as secret scope) into read-only snapshots plus DEEPSEEK_API_KEY from the environment or .env files, and calls Hermes' own account-usage fetchers for each configured provider (Anthropic, Codex, OpenRouter, DeepSeek at https://api.deepseek.com/user/balance, and any provider plugin exposing fetch_account_usage), sending each entry's own token only to its own provider. The plugin never refreshes or persists a credential; on a Codex HTTP 401, Hermes core may refresh the active profile's matching Codex token via OpenAI's token endpoint and rewrite that profile's auth.json. No other network egress.

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.
    hermes plugins install hermes-monitor
  2. Said no? Turn it on later:
    hermes plugins enable hermes-monitor
  3. 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
Automation & multi-agent · Hermes Desktop add-ons
Maintained by
Hermes Monitor contributors (independent of Nous Research) (Community)
Needs
No API keys declared
Works on
linux, macos
Needs Hermes
0.21 or newer
Version
0.3.5
In the catalog
2026-09-23, updated 2026-10-06

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