# Nerve: Hermes Agent plugin

> Nerve is a supervisory nervous system for Hermes Agent with provider-neutral Jev, Laya, and OpenJev Reflex backends, evidence-backed Kanban supervision, context governance, token-budget trajectory control, and durable…

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

Nerve is a supervisory nervous system for Hermes Agent with provider-neutral Jev, Laya, and OpenJev Reflex backends, evidence-backed Kanban supervision, context governance, token-budget trajectory control, and durable SSH workers.

## Good to know before installing

The default Reflex backend is hosted Jev; with the default settings (enabled / admission_enabled on) each turn's user prompt (up to 12k characters) and redacted tool/result previews are sent to the configured Jev provider (OpenRouter Decisions / TypeSafe Jev) using your OPENROUTER_API_KEY or TYPESAFE_API_KEY, spending your credits on every turn. Laya and OpenJev can be configured as local/self-hosted backends. The operator-only nerve setup CLI can copy a local HermesContextBus checkout into HERMES_HOME/plugins/hermes-context-bus and runs hermes plugins enable/disable for that plugin when a profile is saved; the model cannot trigger this.

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 nerve
```

2. Said no? Turn it on later:

```bash
hermes plugins enable nerve
```

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
- Maintained by: keeltrace (Community)
- Needs: No API keys declared
- Adds tools: `nerve_decide`, `nerve_rank`, `nerve_verify`, `nerve_assess`, `nerve_context_curate`, `nerve_context_rehydrate`, `nerve_stats`, `nerve_nervous_event`, `nerve_supervise_card`, `nerve_work_event`, `nerve_work_status`, `nerve_remote_delegate_task`, `nerve_remote_worker_status`, `nerve_remote_worker_result`, `nerve_remote_worker_cancel`, `nerve_remote_worker_control`
- Requires Hermes: `>=0.21`
- Version: 0.3.1
- In the catalog since: 2026-09-23, updated 2026-10-02

## Links

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

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