Hermes web-search-plus

Web Search Plus is a Hermes plugin that routes web search and page extraction across several providers behind one setup. It adds two tools to a Hermes agent: web_search_plus, which searches the web and returns the original source links, and web_extract_plus, which reads and cleans pages the agent already has. It is a port of the OpenClaw web-search-plus plugin to the Hermes plugin API.

It supports 15 search and 9 extraction providers, and one key of each kind is enough to start. Automatic routing picks a provider by query type (Brave for most queries, Exa for docs and academic queries, Serper for security and shopping) and moves to the next provider within 2.5 seconds when one stalls or returns nothing. You can also set your own provider order. Queries that are clearly in another language, such as German or French, are searched in that language.

A self-hosted profile uses only a SearXNG instance and the keyless Keenable public tier, with no commercial API key. Some providers stay outside automatic routing unless you opt in: Octen through Monid, TinyFish, and DonSeTch, a separately installed local MCP program that connects over stdio. Provider privacy terms differ, and a maintained guide compares training, retention, and zero-data-retention options per provider.

Release 5.0, measured on 294 live queries, lowered median search latency from 930 ms to 565 ms and the slowest query from 22 s to 2.1 s, and returns results about 35 percent shorter.