Paperclip Adapter for Hermes Agent
A Paperclip adapter that lets you run Hermes Agent as a managed employee in a Paperclip company.
Hermes Agent is a full-featured AI agent by Nous Research with 30+ native tools, persistent memory, session persistence, 80+ skills, MCP support, and multi-provider model access.
Key FeaturesThis adapter provides:
- 8 inference providers — Anthropic, OpenRouter, OpenAI, Nous, OpenAI Codex, ZAI, Kimi Coding, MiniMax
- Skills integration — Scans both Paperclip-managed and Hermes-native skills (
~/.hermes/skills/), with sync/list/resolve APIs - Structured transcript parsing — Raw Hermes stdout is parsed into typed
TranscriptEntryobjects so Paperclip renders proper tool cards with status icons and expand/collapse - Rich post-processing — Converts Hermes ASCII banners, setext headings, and
+--+table borders into clean GFM markdown - Comment-driven wakes — Agents wake to respond to issue comments, not just task assignments
- Auto model detection — Reads
~/.hermes/config.yamlto pre-populate the UI with the user's configured model - Session codec — Structured validation and migration of session state across heartbeats
- Benign stderr reclassification — MCP init messages and structured logs are reclassified so they don't appear as errors in the UI
- Session source tagging — Sessions are tagged as
toolsource so they don't clutter the user's interactive history - Filesystem checkpoints — Optional
--checkpointsfor rollback safety - Thinking effort control — Passes
--reasoning-effortfor thinking/reasoning models
Works with
Paperclip
A Node.js server and React UI that orchestrates a team of AI agents to run a business. Bring your own agents, assign goals, and track work and costs from one dashboard.
Hermes
Self-improving AI agent with a learning loop that creates and refines skills, recalls past sessions, and runs across chat platforms