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Tell Cabinet the job you need done and it answers with the smallest setup that does it (one chat, a skill, a routine, a Bot or a crew), shows which answers led there, then helps you act: add one of botcabinet.com's 20 Bots (each with its test record shown) as a Hermes profile, plan a new Bot line by line, or set up a crew of Bots in a handoff order with blocked Kanban cards. Everything Cabinet makes can be removed again from My Bots, and a Bot that Hermes's own Bots catalog carries is handed over to it, never duplicated. Disclosure — fetches its Bot catalog from https://botcabinet.com/catalog.json on open and Refresh (data only, 2 MB cap) and, after you confirm, creates Hermes profiles whose instructions (SOUL.md) come from that catalog; can create and archive Kanban cards for a crew; deletes only profiles it created that you have not changed; reads ~/.hermes/profiles and hashes profile files to track what it made; calls private Hermes modules (hermes_cli.profiles, kanban_db), so a Hermes update can break it; no shell, credentials, telemetry or self-updates.

Learn Hermes by doing real work. Four paths (Messenger, Traveler, Crossroads, Boundary Keeper) climb Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced to a capstone on a problem of your own, and a fifth, Guide, covers setting Hermes up for a client: practice labs built from made-up data, a proposal, one real service run by a scheduled job for several days, a recovery drill, and a review signed by a reviewer you choose. Every mission ends with a check on something you made; your own Hermes scores your written answers in a new chat; passed missions come back for short spaced reviews; and at the end of a path you can create a Field Record, your own self-issued learning record. Field Academy is an independent community plugin. It is not made, issued or endorsed by Nous Research. Disclosure — no network calls (a source link opens in your browser only when you click it); no credentials, telemetry, shell commands, background processes or self-updates; registers six tools, two hooks, the /academy command and one skill: pre_llm_call may add one sentence offering a practice to the user message, only in interactive desktop, TUI and CLI sessions, and post_tool_call records which tool was used; pressing Try it or a scoring button opens a new chat and sends the practice or scoring prompt there (on an older Hermes it goes to the clipboard instead); the Desktop page calls gateway list methods only (session.list, cron.manage list, skills.manage list, tools.list, mcp.catalog, commands.catalog, setup.runtime_check); stores progress, pasted documents, practice labs, review packets and saved Field Records in $HERMES_HOME/plugin-data/field-academy/; reads a file you name (UTF-8 text, max 5 MiB) and hashes a recording you name without copying it; Guide labs write and check made-up .env and auth.json files inside its own labs folder (refusing to build in a real Hermes home) and never read Hermes's real ones; on the Guide path reads Hermes's run-history database read-only and immutable, jobs.json and up to 25 log files (2 MiB each), keeping only timestamps for the job you name, and reads install-stamp.json for the Hermes version; no private Hermes imports.