Tools & Plugins Thursday, October 1, 2026

Oh-My-Hermes: routing layer, claimed 85% cheaper

@rlaope shipped a same-day thread on oh-my-hermes (https://github.com/rlaope/oh-my-hermes). It sits beside Hermes and does not patch it. Requests are scored into lanes (rename vs deep search), each lane has its own model chain with fallthrough, prompts are tuned per model and kept only while a benchmark says they help. Author claims the same coding tasks on GPT-6 Astra dropped from $4.29 / 23 min to $0.66 / 5 min. Also ships a cost HUD, verification gates, project memory, and 100+ workflow skills. Earlier post cites 3,000+ GitHub stars.

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Why it matters

This is the concrete “make Hermes cheaper without replacing the harness” pattern builders have been asking for. Treat the benchmark as the author’s numbers, not an independent audit, but the architecture is usable today.

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