hermes-paperclip-adapter

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.

| Feature | Claude Code | Codex | Hermes Agent | |---------|------------|-------|-------------| | Persistent memory | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ Remembers across sessions | | Native tools | ~5 | ~5 | 30+ (terminal, file, web, browser, vision, git, etc.) | | Skills system | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ 80+ loadable skills | | Session search | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ FTS5 search over past conversations | | Sub-agent delegation | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ Parallel sub-tasks | | Context compression | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ Auto-compresses long conversations | | MCP client | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ Connect to any MCP server | | Multi-provider | Anthropic only | OpenAI only | ✅ 8 providers out of the box |

• 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 TranscriptEntry objects 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.yaml to 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