Nous Research launches Hermes plugin hackathon with $20k prizes; conductor plugin orchestrates coding agents
Teknium · x · 2026-11-09
Nous Research kicked off a 7-day Hermes Agent plugin hackathon with $20,000 in cash prizes. Plugins can change the model Hermes runs on, memory storage, command execution, messaging apps and the desktop UI; accepted entries go to the new Hermes Marketplace. Developer alexhvnsen previewed a Hermes Conductor plugin that turns remote Hermes into a technical lead for coding agent teams in codex, claude code and cursor: Hermes designs prompts, dispatches tasks, and agents notify it on completion or when stuck, with tasks tracked on a kanban.
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