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Tools & PluginsThursday, November 5, 2026

Hermes Agent Plugin Hackathon Live — Early Entries

Official Hermes Plugin Hackathon kicked off (7 days, $20k+ prizes). Early high-quality entries already shipping: Network X-ray (compare DNS/TCP/TLS/HTTP across machines), zambo receipts (verifiable AER-1 session receipts with offline outbox), clack (encrypted agent-to-agent messaging with signed receipts), Hermes Chronos (shadow-git checkpoints + autonomous rollback + timeline scrub). Catalog already at ~977 plugins; unified Hermes Marketplace launched.

Credit@brennanzambo, @MossAIStudio

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Why it matters

Immediate signal of what the community is actually building. Several of these (receipts, checkpoints, encrypted messaging) solve real production problems for multi-agent and persistent setups.

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