# Waypoint: Hermes Agent plugin > Session status for Hermes Desktop: a thin bar next to every sidebar session with four states — Working (remembers your next step), Waiting on someone (who/what plus a follow-up reminder), Done (outcome plus a… Canonical: https://hermeswatcher.com/plugins/waypoint Tier: Community Official page (Nous Research): https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins/waypoint Last updated in catalog: 2026-10-13 Session status for Hermes Desktop: a thin bar next to every sidebar session with four states — Working (remembers your next step), Waiting on someone (who/what plus a follow-up reminder), Done (outcome plus a fresh-start handoff) and untracked. Suggests 3 next steps per session (instant quick ideas from the chat, opt-in AI ideas from the auxiliary model, priority colours) with one-click Ask, a Power up button that asks a strong model for sharper ideas on demand, and Mark complete to stop suggestions. Adds a Status Board page (columns, follow-ups due, stale sessions, archive all done), triage of untracked sessions, a resume banner above the composer, a status-bar counter, a daily summary, palette commands and English/Arabic (RTL). SDK-only: session-row slots, a route, sidebar nav, status bar, composer banner, palette. ## Good to know before installing No network calls of its own (all model calls go through Hermes llm.oneshot); AI next-step suggestions are OFF by default; when enabled, after new replies (at most every 90 s) the plugin sends the focused session's last ~12 user/assistant messages (≤ ~7,000 chars) plus its title and the user's notes to the auxiliary task title_generation (Hermes default "auto" = your main model); Power up runs only when pressed — also with AI suggestions off — and sends a longer excerpt (last ~20 messages, ≤ ~12,000 chars) to the plugin's own auxiliary tasks waypoint_ideas / waypoint_ideas_2 (registered by __init__.py; unset they resolve to "auto" = your main model) or, for "My chat model", to the open session's model; an optional automatic big idea (off by default) uses the same choice at most every 10 minutes; Power up call log (2.5.0): the Python half also registers two observe-only hooks (pre_auxiliary_call, post_auxiliary_call) that ignore every auxiliary task except waypoint_ideas / waypoint_ideas_2 and, for those, write one line per call to the user's own Hermes log (logs/agent.log) and append a record to /plugin-data/waypoint/power-calls.jsonl (rolls over at ~1 MB): model, provi 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 waypoint ``` 2. Said no? Turn it on later: ```bash hermes plugins enable waypoint ``` 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: Hermes Desktop add-ons - Maintained by: mochiNJ (Community) - Needs: No API keys declared - Requires Hermes: `>=0.21.6` - Version: 2.5.0 - In the catalog since: 2026-10-12, updated 2026-10-13 ## Links - [Full setup and settings (official page)](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins/waypoint) - [Source code](https://github.com/mochiNJ/hermes-waypoint) - [All plugins](https://hermeswatcher.com/plugins.md) --- HermesWatcher is an independent guide. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nous Research. The [official Hermes Agent documentation](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs) and [repository](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent) from Nous Research are the authority; each page here lists the official sources it was written from. If this site and the official docs disagree, trust the official docs. Index for agents: https://hermeswatcher.com/llms.txt