All Pets — a Hermes desktop plugin

Browse every pet installed for your Hermes profile in its own workspace pane, with thumbnails, a search box, a live count, and click-to-adopt.

Why

The built-in picker (Settings ▸ Appearance ▸ Pet) renders at most 60 rows (RENDER_CAP in apps/desktop/src/app/settings/pet-settings.tsx) and the command-palette page slices to 50. A store with a couple of hundred pets is browse-only by typing a search term. This plugin reads the same local store with no cap.

Requirements

• Hermes desktop. host.openWorkspace is used for the pane; on a desktop without it the plugin falls back to a /pets page so the feature still exists.
• No API keys, no environment variables, no network access beyond your own local gateway.

Install

From Git — in the app: Cmd/Ctrl+K ▸ Capabilities ▸ Plugins ▸ Install from Git, then paste this repository's URL. The app detects desktop/plugin.js and installs it into ~/.hermes/desktop-plugins/<repo-name>/.

By file — copy desktop/plugin.js to ~/.hermes/desktop-plugins/pets-all/plugin.js. Runtime plugins are discovered within a few seconds and hot-reload on save.

Open the pane

Three doors, all equivalent:

1. Click the 🐾 pets chip in the app's status bar.
2. Press Ctrl+Alt+P (mod+alt+p).
3. Cmd/Ctrl+K and run Pets: Open the pet gallery pane.

The pane docks to the right of the workspace and keeps its own tab; re-running any door fronts the existing pane instead of opening a second one.

How it works

Step	Call	Notes
List	pet.gallery with localOnly: true	Installed pets only; skips the network manifest
Thumbnails	pet.thumb per slug	Batched 6 at a time; idle frame, cached on disk by the backend
Adopt	pet.select on tile click	Same call the built-in picker makes

Everything is read-only until you click a tile. Nothing is uploaded, and the plugin never touches your config except through pet.select.

Compatibility notes

• A contributed full-page route lands inside the workspace zone, so on a layout parked on a session tile the navigation can look dead (the tile stays in front). That is why this plugin opens a pane instead.
• Runtime desktop plugins live outside the Tailwind content scan, so this plugin styles with inline styles and the app's CSS variables rather than utility classes.

Not a catalog entry

The Nous plugin catalog (hermes plugins search, and the catalog pane under Capabilities ▸ Plugins) lists agent plugins: each entry pins a public repo at a full 40-character commit SHA, and admission runs hermes plugins validate, which requires a plugin.yaml (or portable plugin.json) plus a capability probe of register(ctx). This plugin is desktop-only and registers nothing agent-side, so it is not eligible as-is. Distribute it by repository URL.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.