Nora's Tavern

What Nora's Tavern does

The project keeps the tavern, where roleplay happens, decoupled from Nora, who runs in Hermes Agent and can manage it. Installing just the tavern lets you play with existing SillyTavern-compatible character cards, worldbooks, Regex and Tavern Helper extensions. Adding Nora brings agent management: with user authorization, Nora can read and change a world's characters, sessions, memory and app status through a Nora MCP server, reachable both from the local tavern interface and from connected messaging platforms.

Stories are organized around a world rather than one card, so characters, sessions, worldbooks and an ongoing plot ledger stay together and a story can be continued without re-explaining its background. A Story Profile records a user's preferences across sessions and can also be used to edit Nora's own persona. A local launcher installs Hermes, Nora's configuration, the tavern and its dependencies together on Windows or Mac, or the tavern alone can be installed from source without Hermes for a lighter, agent-free setup.

Key features

• SillyTavern-compatible character cards, worldbooks, Regex and Tavern Helper support
• Stories organized around a persistent world rather than a single character card
• Nora, running in Hermes Agent, manages worlds, sessions and memory via Nora MCP with authorization
• Story Profile records preferences and can edit Nora's persona
• One-click local launcher installs Hermes, Nora and the tavern together
• Light install option runs only the tavern from source, without Hermes

When to use it

• Continuing a long-running roleplay story without re-explaining its world each session
• Asking Nora over a connected messaging app to prepare a scene or list a world's characters
• Running only the SillyTavern-compatible tavern interface without any agent management layer

Who it is for: AI roleplay and interactive fiction users who want a SillyTavern-compatible app with optional agent-assisted world management.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

Nora, the management character, runs inside Hermes Agent and uses a Nora MCP server to read and manage the tavern's worlds and sessions with the user's authorization.

Requirements: A model API key for chat; Windows x64 or Mac (Apple Silicon or Intel) for the full launcher, or Git and Node.js for the tavern-only source install

Note: The full installer is not notarized on macOS or code-signed on Windows, so the operating system may show a security warning on first run.

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