How-To Series · Episode 43 / 59 · Module 7: Power Tools

Hermes · Built-In Plugins

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Hermes ships a set of plugins in-tree, using the same surface as third-party ones (hooks, tools, slash commands). They are opt-in: discovered but disabled until you enable them with hermes plugins (or hermes plugins enable <name>). The quiet workhorse is disk-cleanup, which auto-tracks the junk a session creates and removes the safe ones on session end, only ever under your Hermes home. google_meet sends a virtual participant into a call, transcribes it, and summarizes with action items. observability/langfuse traces every turn, call, and tool to a dashboard; hermes-achievements generates Steam-style badges from your session history. There is more in the box (Spotify, image backends, the Kanban tab); broadly-useful hook-driven plugins get bundled, API-key or niche ones stay user-installed.

About these resources. Every command in this video comes from the Built-in Plugins doc.

Sources · What this video distills

1 docs page · every command below traces to one of them
Primary · the bundled-plugin list, opt-in model, hermes plugins control surface, disk-cleanup / google_meet / langfuse / achievements
Built-in Plugins
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Commands shown · Copy and paste

each shows the source doc it came from
Browse + togglefrom source ↗
hermes plugins
Enable onefrom source ↗
hermes plugins enable disk-cleanup
pip install langfuse && hermes plugins enable observability/langfuse
disk-cleanup statusfrom source ↗
/disk-cleanup status

Going deeper · Related Hermes docs

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