Plugin for Hermes Desktop

Bot Cabinet in Hermes

Cabinet puts Bot Cabinet in the Hermes Desktop sidebar. Tell it the job you need done. It suggests the smallest setup that can do it, then adds the right Bots to Hermes for you.

Install Cabinet Read the manual

Free and open sourceNeeds Hermes 0.22.0 or laterTested on Windows, Mac and Linux

Two brass Bots inside an open wooden cabinet lined with blueprints — Cabinet · Inside Hermes Desktop

What you get

The Cabinet, in your sidebar

Cabinet opens on Start Here. From there you can take the Fit Test, browse the Bots, plan a new one in Bot Lab, set up a crew or check the test records.

Cabinet's Start Here page in Hermes Desktop, with the Fit Test ladder, six Bot portraits with test badges, a Crew Kit and the test totals — Start Here, the first page Cabinet opens to.

Inside the sidebar

What it does for you

Find the right size

Describe a job and answer five short questions. Cabinet tells you whether one chat message will do, or whether you need a skill, a schedule, one Bot or a crew. It shows which of your answers led there.

Add a Bot or a crew

Pick one of the 20 Bots or 11 Crew Kits from botcabinet.com. Cabinet shows exactly what it will make, and you can change any of it first. The result is a normal Hermes bot that uses the model you already have.

Take it back

My Bots lists everything Cabinet made. You can remove any of it, as long as you haven't changed it. Once you edit a bot, it's yours, and Cabinet leaves it alone.

See what was tested

Test Records show what each Bot has been tested on, failures included. Today 4 of the 20 Bots have a recorded task run. Check a Bot's work yourself before you rely on it.

A Fit Test answer in Cabinet that points to the Personal Planning Desk crew, with its four steps and the reasons on the right — A Fit Test answer names the setup and lists the answers that led there.

Cabinet's review screen for adding Daily Newspaper, with its name, editable instructions and a list of what will be made — Before anything is made, you see the whole Bot and can edit it.

Install

Getting it running

You install Cabinet once. After that it lives in the Hermes Desktop sidebar. Hermes uses git to download it, so git needs to be on your computer too.

Open a terminal
On Windows, open PowerShell. On a Mac or Linux, open Terminal.
Run this one linehermes plugins install Dgardenhire/hermes-cabinet --enable
Hermes may say this comes from a source it hasn't reviewed. That is expected for now.
Restart Hermes Desktop
Quit it fully and open it again, so it loads the new plugin.
Open Cabinet in the sidebar
If the page says Cabinet isn't connected, turn the plugin on under Capabilities and open the page again.

Hermes Bots

One copy of every Bot

When Hermes carries a Bot in its own Bots catalog, Cabinet sends you there to add it, so you never get two copies. Cabinet adds every other Bot itself.

Cabinet reads the list of Bots from botcabinet.com and sends nothing else. There is no tracking and no account. Your new bots use the model and sign-in you already have in Hermes.

Cabinet: find the smallest setup for a job, then add Bots and crews from botcabinet.com, with undo

Source and manual

Read it before you run it

Cabinet's code is on GitHub under the MIT license. The manual walks through every screen with pictures.

Cabinet on GitHub The Cabinet manual Browse the Bots

Cabinet is an independent plugin developed by Damon Gardenhire. It is not an official plugin for Hermes made by Nous Research.