# Provider Usage: Hermes Agent plugin

> Per-provider quota and balance readout in the Hermes desktop status bar.

Canonical: https://hermeswatcher.com/plugins/provider-usage  
Tier: Community  
Official page (Nous Research): https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins/provider-usage  
Last updated in catalog: 2026-10-23

Per-provider quota and balance readout in the Hermes desktop status bar. Per-provider chips with eye toggles, a popover with every quota window, reset times, balance and key-cap amounts, near-limit amber tint, a desktop notification per threshold crossing, and burn-rate projections (ETA to reset or depletion). Providers: OpenCode Go, OpenAI Codex, OpenRouter, plus Anthropic, GitHub Copilot, Nous, Z.AI, Kimi, MiniMax and DeepSeek when configured.

## Good to know before installing

Resolves provider credentials read-only (Hermes account-usage helpers and profile secrets, else the profile's .env and the vendor CLI login files ~/.codex/auth.json, ~/.claude/.credentials.json and ~/.local/share/opencode/auth.json) and sends each only to that provider's usage endpoint; the GitHub Copilot check presents the VS Code / Copilot client identity. No subprocesses, no telemetry.

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 provider-usage
```

2. Said no? Turn it on later:

```bash
hermes plugins enable provider-usage
```

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: Coding & developer tools, Hermes Desktop add-ons
- Maintained by: PhoeniXAbhisheK (Community)
- Needs: No API keys declared
- Requires Hermes: `>=0.21.0`
- Version: 0.3.1
- In the catalog since: 2026-09-23, updated 2026-10-23

## Links

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

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