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Edition No. 39 · Saturday, November 7, 2026
Teknium announced that the Hermes community has produced over 1,000 plugins, all browsable and installable via the new Hermes Marketplace (community tier filter). The marketplace unifies plugins, skills, and connectors with one-click / CLI install. Ongoing hackathon is generating more entries (plugin creator UIs, Discord-style layers, motion-graphics libraries, understudy model comparison, etc.).
Why it mattersSignals a compounding open ecosystem. For builders, the marketplace is now the practical discovery and extension surface for Hermes; 1,000 community plugins in a short window is a concrete moat indicator versus closed alternatives.
Hermes Agent community plugins crossing 1,000 (announced by Teknium on the Marketplace). This stands out because it is a clear, measurable milestone of ecosystem compounding, arrives just days after the Marketplace launch and the substantial v0.23 Hearth Release, and is being actively extended by an ongoing hackathon. For a resource site and for builders, it is the highest-signal development: the open plugin surface is now large enough to be a practical differentiator and a daily discovery tool. OpenClaw remains the volume leader in cumulative attention, but Hermes’s recent velocity and tooling surface are the active story.
The whole nightHackathon submission: a desktop dashboard inside Hermes that lets users describe a plugin (or convert existing skills/cron jobs), create/audit/edit it, and publish straight to GitHub for review. Built entirely with Hermes tools.
Analyst post notes OpenClaw (~394k stars) + Hermes (~260k) account for 35.79% of stars in Agent Radar’s tracked cohort. OpenClaw leads cumulative attention; Hermes leads recent absolute additions. Caveats on non-unique users and that stars ≠ execution quality or retention.
Major release (Nov 5). Key highlights: full Desktop workspace served by the gateway in any browser tab (webapp.enabled); one gateway owns every conversation across CLI/TUI/Desktop/messaging/cron (fixes double-writes and missing messages); terminal image rendering; /Rewind; Group Chats with automatic routing; spend limits for paid tools; lighter/faster core (shared cache keys, faster LSP edits). Rolls up prior patch releases. ~10k commits, 666 contributors since v0.22.
Community reports of productive daily use (e.g., business workflows after sustained setup effort). Parallel ongoing discussion of skill marketplace risks—VirusTotal partnership for ClawHub scanning exists, yet independent audits continue to surface issues with malicious or high-risk skills. Local-first design remains the core value prop.
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