Humalike Plugin for Hermes Agent
Hermalike's Hermes plugin equips the Hermes Agent with social capabilities: deciding when to speak or stay silent, generating personality, anticipating message impacts and learning group tones; it can be enabled with a single command and supports Telegram, Slack, WhatsApp and Discord.
Updated: 2026-10-27
What is Humalike Plugin for Hermes Agent?
On the official Hermalike website, this product page is titled "Hermes plugin". Its positioning is to add a layer of social capabilities to the Hermes Agent: after installation, the robot is not only able to answer questions but also knows when to speak, who it is, who the other party is, and how a group chat is communicating. The four capabilities listed on the official website are turn-taking, persona, theory of mind, and social learning; the GitHub README describes that through the Humalike API, the intelligent agent can know when to speak, how to speak, who it is, and who it is talking to. After installation, it runs where Hermes originally was, and the official website states that it supports Telegram, Slack, WhatsApp, and Discord.
Who is it for?
- Developers who are already running Hermes Agent and want to prevent it from spamming in group chats.
- Community operators who need to maintain a stable personality and voice for their bots.
- Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, and Discord users who want their AI agents to align more closely with their team's language and formatting.
- AI agent research teams studying conversation timing, personality and group tone.
Key features
6Turn-Taking Awareness
The official website states that it reads the chat rhythm and decides when to interject or stay silent, avoiding walls of robot-generated text; the README adds that it naturally breaks responses into multiple human-style messages.
Persona Generation
The official website states that `/soul enhance` can expand a one-line description into a character with a complete voice; the README notes that it reads SOUL.md, calls the Personas API, backs up old files, and writes back the changes.
Theory of Mind
According to the official website, it considers the impact of messages on the reader and adjusts them before sending.
Community Tone Learning
The official website states that it learns the slang, formatting, formality level or jokes of the group, making the replies sound like group members rather than outsiders.
Auto-configuration on first launch
The README states that the plugin writes settings such as streaming, shared group sessions, and disabling tool progress prompts, and prints what was changed, where, and why.
Multi-platform details
The README lists the configuration differences between DM and group chats for WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, and Discord, and handles Discord input status, media tags, and quick consecutive messages.
How to use Humalike Plugin for Hermes Agent
- 1Execute `hermes update` before installation; the README states that the plugin integrates with Hermes' internal structure, and older versions may cause turn-taking to not be hooked up.
- 2After the first startup, restart the gateway as prompted to make the configurations automatically written by the plugin take effect, then join the group to observe the real conversation rhythm.
- 3Check the path of SOUL.md; if it is not the default location, you need to specify it in `turn_taking.soul_path` of config.yaml.
- 4Use caution with `respond-to-everyone` on a personal WhatsApp number; the README reminds that environment variables can be used to restrict user or group whitelists.
- 5For Telegram group chats, you also need to handle the BotFather privacy mode and allowed chat IDs; these steps cannot be automatically completed by the plugin.
Traffic & popularity
Data month Sep 2026
Humalike Plugin for Hermes Agent receives about 1.4K visits per month and ranks #11,360,134 worldwide.
Monthly visits
10 monthsTraffic sources
- Direct33.7%
- Search30.6%
- Referrals13.1%
- Social6.6%
- Display ads5.9%
- Other10.1%
Top countries
- Spain42.1%
- United States30.8%
- Germany18.0%
- Hong Kong, China5.1%
- Poland4.0%
Estimated from third-party traffic data.
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