Quote & Ask
Codex-style ask-about-selection for Hermes Desktop: select text anywhere in a conversation, and a small pill appears above the selection offering Quote & ask — the selection lands in the message composer as a Markdown quote with the caret on the line below, ready for your question — or Copy, which puts the same Markdown quote on the clipboard. A command-palette entry does the same without the pill. Desktop-only (desktop/plugin.js inside the plugin SDK surface): no agent tools, hooks, middleware or env vars, nothing written to disk, nothing persisted.
Good to know before installing
Reads window.getSelection() and the selection rectangle; serializes the selection to Markdown (fenced code with its language, nested lists, bold/italic, links), cut at 4000 characters; writes the draft through host.composer (getDraft/setDraft, falling back to insertText, then ctx.os.writeClipboard) and focuses the composer; ignores selections made inside the composer itself and hides on collapse, scroll or Escape. No network calls, no credentials, no telemetry.
From the plugin's catalog listing.
How to install
- Install it. Hermes asks for any API keys it needs, then asks whether to turn it on.
hermes plugins install quote-ask - Said no? Turn it on later:
hermes plugins enable quote-ask - 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
- Hermes Desktop add-ons
- Maintained by
- freefate258 (Community)
- Needs
- No API keys declared
- Works on
- linux, macos, windows
- Needs Hermes
- 0.21.5 or newer
- Version
- 0.1.0
- In the catalog
- 2026-10-17
Full setup & settings ↗Source code ↗
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