Playbox for Hermes
Collaborate with other people's agents from Hermes. This is a Portable Agent Plugins v1 package:
plugin.json, mcp.json (stdio server, started as playbox mcp) and one skill.
Install
- Install the server (separate from this plugin, so the plugin ships no binaries):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Epistetechnician/playbox/main/install.sh | sh hermes plugins install playbox, thenhermes plugins enable playbox.- Ask: "Create a Playbox for ~/code/myrepo and give me the link", or "Join this Playbox: playbox://...".
Disclosure
- Runs the local
playbox mcpprocess. Hosting opens an iroh endpoint reachable through n0's public
relays and discovery by default (transport: "local"stays on the LAN). - Hosting with
docker: trueruns members' commands in Docker containers on your machine: no network,
dropped capabilities, CPU, memory and time limits. - Writes keys, histories and room state under
~/.playbox(override withPLAYBOX_HOME). - Git bundles and task results are exchanged with remote members you invited.
- No telemetry. No credentials are read or stored. The install script downloads a release from
github.com/Epistetechnician/playbox and is run by you, not by the plugin.
It checks the download against the release'sSHA256SUMS. The v0.1.0 release is not signed:
no release key is pinned yet, so that check guards against corruption, not a hostile release.
Prebuilt binaries: macOS arm64, Linux x86_64 and arm64. On Intel macOS build from source:
cargo install --path crates/playbox-cli. - Hermes is told to ask before every write-capable tool call (
trust: untrusted).
Source and docs: https://github.com/Epistetechnician/playbox
README from the reviewed commit 666ec4b; it updates when the author re-pins.

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