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tony-simons-aiowa/hermes-newswire

⭐ 47 Python added to this list on 2026-09-21 repository created 2026-09-13

hermes-newswire is a Hermes Desktop plugin that adds a continuously scrolling breaking-news ticker strip docked above the workspace's status bar, backed entirely by a model-free feed engine that parses RSS, Atom, and JSON Feed sources. The ticker supports hover-to-pause, clickable headlines that open in the user's default browser, a source and relative-age label per story, a reduced-motion static fallback, and keyboard accessibility. Alongside the ticker, the plugin adds a full Newswire page reachable from the sidebar or a command-palette shortcut, offering a Latest list with search, filtering, unread tracking, and mark-as-read, a Sources management screen with feed discovery (pasting a site URL resolves its feed automatically), and a settings screen. Because retrieval, parsing, deduplication, storage, and rendering all run locally with no model calls and no API keys, the plugin consumes zero LLM tokens for its routine operation; a SQLite cache keeps the ticker showing content when the network is unavailable and resumes silently once connectivity returns. Installation is a git clone into the Hermes plugins directory followed by enabling the backend in ~/.hermes/config.yaml and restarting Hermes Desktop's serve process, after which the desktop's renderer half mounts automatically; a successful install is confirmed by a "Mounted plugin API routes" line in the Hermes agent log. The plugin ships 119 passing tests and documents that Hermes's install-time security scanner flags it with a "caution" verdict because the scan inspects the project's own hostile test fixtures, which deliberately probe that its SSRF gate rejects file:// and loopback URLs, and README install commands — not because the plugin itself performs unsafe operations.

https://github.com/tony-simons-aiowa/hermes-newswire

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