Messaging Gateway

The most popular Hermes gateway platform. Full feature support — voice messages, images, files, threads, typing indicators, and streaming. Set up via @BotFather in 2 minutes.

Most feature-rich adapter with voice channel support, message reactions, and comprehensive permission controls. The adapter is now a modularized package rather than a single large file.

Full enterprise messaging integration with voice, images, threads, reactions, and typing. Uses Socket Mode for real-time WebSocket communication.

Two adapters ship for WhatsApp: the unofficial WhatsApp Web bridge via Baileys (QR code pairing, no Business API needed) and the official Meta WhatsApp Business Cloud API adapter (whatsapp-cloud, no bridge or QR codes).

Most privacy-focused option with end-to-end encryption. Requires external signal-cli daemon running in HTTP mode. Built-in rate limiting.

iMessage bridge via BlueBubbles server running on a Mac. Supports text, images, and files through Apple's iMessage protocol.

Enterprise Slack integration with Socket Mode. Full feature parity for team communication — threads, reactions, and channel management.

Self-hosted enterprise chat alternative to Slack. Uses webhooks and REST API for communication. Good for organizations that self-host.

Enterprise Teams integration via plugin architecture. Supports bot messaging, adaptive cards, and @mentions.

Google Workspace integration via plugin. Supports images, files, threads, and typing. Uses Google Cloud Pub/Sub for webhook-free receiving.

Oldest chat protocol — text-only, no media, no reactions. Uses Python stdlib asyncio — zero external dependencies. Plugin-based.

Alibaba's enterprise messaging platform with OAuth 2.0 auth. Essential for enterprise deployments in China.

ByteDance's enterprise platform with card-style interactive messages and a separate comment rules module.

Tencent's enterprise communication platform. Two modes: simple webhook bot or full callback app with crypto support.

WeChat Official Account integration. Only option for reaching WeChat's billion+ users. Uses XML message format.

QQ messaging via official Bot API. Access to QQ's massive Chinese userbase. WebSocket-based.

Dominant messaging platform in Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand. Plugin-based with full media support — images, audio, video, files, stickers, location.

Tencent's Yuanbao platform with proprietary messaging protocol, media, stickers, and custom proto support.

Reliable async communication via SMTP/IMAP. Supports threading via email subjects. Best for notification-heavy workflows and offline communication.

Bare-bones text-only channel via Twilio. Useful for alerts, 2FA codes, and offline notifications when you're away from internet-connected platforms.

Decentralized open protocol for federated deployments, supporting the Matrix ecosystem.

Smart home integration via Home Assistant WebSocket API. Enables the agent to control and monitor your smart home devices.

OpenAI-compatible chat completions API. The backbone for Open WebUI and custom integrations. Runs the agent as a server-to-server service.

Generic HTTP webhook listener. Configure arbitrary routes mapping webhook payloads to agent conversations. Flexible for custom integrations.

Microsoft Graph change notification listener. Subscribe to Microsoft 365 events — email, Teams messages, calendar changes. Event-driven agent actions.

Polished web UI for Hermes Agent via the API Server. Full chat interface with conversation management, user accounts, and file uploads.

Simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification channel. Works with the free public ntfy.sh server or a self-hosted instance, and supports any client that can make HTTP requests - phones, browsers, scripts, watches. Subscribe to a topic from the ntfy mobile app, send messages to the topic to talk to the agent, and get responses back on your phone.

iMessage integration through Photon, a managed service that handles the Apple line allocation and abuse-prevention layer so no self-hosted Mac relay is needed. Supports voice, images, files, and reactions. Distinct from BlueBubbles, which requires your own Mac server.

Private, decentralised messaging platform where users own their contacts and groups. SimpleX assigns no persistent user IDs - every contact is identified by an opaque ID generated at connection time - making it one of the most private messengers available. Full media and voice support.

Connects Hermes to Raft as an external agent through a local wake-channel bridge. The adapter starts a loopback HTTP endpoint that receives content-free wake hints from the bridge and injects them into the gateway session pipeline; the agent reads and sends messages through the Raft CLI, so the adapter never touches message bodies or delivery cursors.

Connects Hermes to a Buzz community - Block open-source human+agent collaboration platform built on the Nostr protocol - and relays messages between Buzz channels (or DMs) and the agent. Outbound traffic shells out to the buzz CLI, inbound uses a native Nostr WebSocket subscription with CLI polling as fallback.

Official Meta WhatsApp Business Cloud API adapter - the production-grade path with no Node.js bridge subprocess, no QR codes, and no account-ban risk.

Agent-to-Agent protocol adapter (A2A v1.0). Lets Hermes agents exchange messages with other A2A-compatible agents.