# Jp Subsidies: Hermes Agent plugin

> Japanese subsidy search and weekly watch, built on the jGrants public API.

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

Japanese subsidy search and weekly watch, built on the jGrants public API.

## Good to know before installing

Searches api.jgrants-portal.go.jp with no API key and no daily request cap; each call waits at most 60 seconds and retries at most twice, and a result is a search match, not proof that every subsidy came back. The plugin has no user list of its own: anyone you allow on your Hermes gateway can call these tools and change this profile's watch, and the agent can set up a watch by itself. In a Chatwork room listed in CHATWORK_ROOMS, everyone can call them while CHATWORK_ALLOWED_USERS is unset. The tools are on for every platform, including gateways; turn them off per platform with hermes tools. While the plugin is enabled, its skill adds one line to the skills index of every session, including surfaces where the tools are turned off. The /subsidies command is outside hermes tools; limit it with allow_admin_from or user_allowed_commands, or disable the plugin. The optional weekly watch is an unattended cron job that runs a script with no model call and is not a sandbox; delivering it to bot-chat instead runs one model turn on the fetched text. If delivery fails after the script runs, those subsidies are already marked seen and the text stays under cron/output/. Uninstall leaves the cron

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 jp-subsidies
```

2. Said no? Turn it on later:

```bash
hermes plugins enable jp-subsidies
```

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: Languages & regions, Web, research & browsing
- Maintained by: TakeshiTGAL (Community)
- Needs: No API keys declared
- Adds tools: `subsidies_search`, `subsidies_detail`, `subsidies_watch_setup`
- Requires Hermes: `>=0.21.4`
- Version: 0.1.1
- 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/jp-subsidies)
- [Source code](https://github.com/TakeshiTGAL/hermes-plugin-subsidies#readme)
- [All plugins](https://hermeswatcher.com/plugins.md)

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