Hermes Paperclip Adapter

Skill by ara.so — Hermes Skills collection.

The Hermes Paperclip Adapter runs Hermes Agent as a managed AI employee inside a Paperclip company. It provides full integration between Paperclip's orchestration/task system and Hermes's 30+ native tools, persistent memory, 80+ skills, and MCP support across 8 inference providers.

What It Does

• Runs Hermes as a Paperclip employee: Assign issues to Hermes agents, they wake up on heartbeats and comments, complete work, and report back
• Persistent session management: Sessions resume across heartbeats, maintaining conversation context and memory
• Structured transcript parsing: Converts raw Hermes stdout into typed TranscriptEntry objects for proper UI rendering (tool cards, status icons)
• Skills sync: Merges Paperclip-managed skills with Hermes-native ~/.hermes/skills/ for unified skill management
• Multi-provider: Supports Anthropic, OpenRouter, OpenAI, Nous, OpenAI Codex, ZAI, Kimi Coding, MiniMax
• Comment-driven wakes: Agents respond to issue comments, not just task assignments
• Cost tracking: Captures token usage and costs from Hermes output

Installation

1. Install Prerequisites