hermes - 💡(How to fix) Fix Brew bottle missing plugin.yaml manifests for web search providers [2 pull requests]

After brew install hermes-agent on Linux, web_search fails with "No web search provider configured" despite valid Nous subscription and managed tools being active.

Root cause The brew bottle includes directories like plugins/web/firecrawl/, tavily/, exa/, parallel/, ddgs/, searxng/ but WITHOUT their plugin.yaml manifests. Without these files, PluginManager._scan_directory() never discovers them, register() is never called, and no WebSearchProvider gets registered.

from agent.web_search_registry import list_providers
print(list_providers())  # → []

After creating plugin.yaml (content from GitHub raw) and discover_plugins(force=True):

from hermes_cli.plugins import discover_plugins
discover_plugins(force=True)
from agent.web_search_registry import list_providers
print(list_providers())  # → ["ddgs", "exa", "firecrawl", ...]

To reproduce

1. brew install hermes-agent on Linux
2. Setup Nous auth, verify managed_nous_tools_enabled() → True
3. Try web_search → "No web search provider configured"
4. ls $(python3 -c "import hermes_cli; print(hermes_cli.__file__.rstrip(chr(95)*2+chr(105)+chr(110)+chr(105)+chr(116)+chr(95)*2+chr(46)+chr(112)+chr(121))") )plugins/web/firecrawl/plugin.yaml → no such file

Environment

• Hermes: 2026.5.16 (brew bottle)
• OS: Linux x86_64 (Ubuntu 24.04)
• Provider: nous (managed tools active)

Example plugin.yaml for firecrawl:

name: web-firecrawl
version: 1.0.0
description: "Firecrawl web search + content extraction. Supports direct API and Nous-hosted tool-gateway routing for subscribers."
author: NousResearch
kind: backend
provides_web_providers:
  - firecrawl