# REA plugin for Hermes Agent

> Nous Research’s Hermes Agent plugin package for REA. One catalog install registers REA’s MCP server, pinned to rea-agents 6.4.0 and launched through npx over stdio, with REA’s workflow skill adapted for Hermes and a separate crash-triage skill. About 170 REA tools stay behind Hermes’ on-demand tool search, and the adapted skill asks before tools that run programs, drive apps or change a connected Android device.

- Type: Integration
- Targets: App · Binary · Firmware · Website
- Category: Community REA integrations
- Relationship: Community REA integration
- Sources reviewed: 2026-10-18
- Added to the catalog: 2026-10-19
- Original resource: <https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins/tree/main/rea>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins/blob/6dacaaddbfd8e98dfc524096c44f712f743246b8/rea/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/hermes-rea-plugin/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/hermes-rea-plugin/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/hermes-rea-plugin/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- plugin.json declares 0.1.0 under MIT. Hermes’ catalog lists it as an official Nous Research plugin for Hermes 0.22.0+, installed with hermes plugins install rea and hermes plugins enable rea; it is not published by REA. Requires Node.js 22.19+, 24.11+ or 26+ with npx, not 23 or 25. A later rea-agents setup for Hermes replaces the pinned server entry.
- Static JavaScript/ASAR, package, Go/Rust, PE, .NET and HAR analysis needs nothing else. Core-dump and ELF-layout tools need a Python with pwntools 4.15.0, pyelftools 0.33 and Unicorn 2.1.2 set in Hermes’ .env. Native decompilation needs Ghidra with a JDK, Hopper or IDA; Android needs JADX and Java; firmware and captures need Binwalk/Unblob, TShark, sigrok or WABT.
- Only the adapted skill asks: Hermes itself does not prompt before REA tools that run PTY commands, drive apps, change Android devices or overwrite files; skip them in unattended runs. Analyze untrusted programs in a prepared environment.
- In the README’s WinSCP 6.7 test the GUI import took 663 seconds under a 1000-second call budget, an author observation rather than a guarantee. Ghidra’s startup deadline is 900 seconds, while each call keeps Hermes’ 300-second MCP default.
- Hermes v0.22.2 installs the package; the per-server call budget needs v0.23.0. The about-170-tool and 460 KB schema figures describe REA 6.4.0. REA’s MIT notice is included and the crash-triage workflow credits crashlens (MIT); external engines and targets keep their own terms.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins/blob/6dacaaddbfd8e98dfc524096c44f712f743246b8/rea/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins/blob/6dacaaddbfd8e98dfc524096c44f712f743246b8/rea/mcp.json>
3. <https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins/blob/6dacaaddbfd8e98dfc524096c44f712f743246b8/rea/plugin.json>
4. <https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins/blob/6dacaaddbfd8e98dfc524096c44f712f743246b8/rea/skills/reverse-engineer-anything/SKILL.md>
5. <https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins/blob/6dacaaddbfd8e98dfc524096c44f712f743246b8/rea/skills/crash-triage/SKILL.md>
6. <https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins/blob/6dacaaddbfd8e98dfc524096c44f712f743246b8/rea/LICENSE>
7. <https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins/commit/69ea758bf3a9793f98933c757ec457b79338a994>
8. <https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/blob/22063fc099ec9ad8357d7f8f6e6248a0400680d3/plugin-catalog/rea.yaml>
9. <https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins/rea>

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