Discord Thread-First Channels

What Discord Thread-First Channels does

Hermes treats discord.free_response_channels as inline chat surfaces, and those channels skip auto-threading. This plugin supplies a narrower policy for the channels you list: no mention is required for a new request, a thread is created from each top-level request, the conversation continues inside that thread, and every other Discord channel stays unchanged.

For each configured parent channel, the plugin temporarily makes the current event mention-free while excluding the channel from the adapter's free-response set, so Hermes follows its normal auto-thread route. Child threads inherit the parent channel's policy. Per-event state uses a Python ContextVar so concurrent messages do not leak policy into each other. Channel IDs are set per profile in plugins.entries, and those channels must be kept out of the free-response settings. Unconfigured installs stay inert, and existing sender authorization and allowed-channel checks still apply.

Key features

• No @mention needed for new requests in configured channels
• A new thread created from each top-level request
• Child threads inherit the parent channel's policy
• ContextVar-based state keeps concurrent messages isolated
• No tokens, guild IDs or channel IDs built in; inert until configured
• Registers no model tools and keeps existing authorization gates

When to use it

• Running a support or request channel where each question gets its own thread automatically
• Letting a team talk to Hermes without mentioning the bot while keeping channels tidy
• Applying the policy to some channels only and leaving the rest of the server unchanged

Who it is for: Hermes Agent operators who run a Discord gateway and want thread-per-conversation routing without @mentions.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

A profile-local Hermes Agent plugin that adjusts how the Discord adapter routes messages, without modifying Hermes core.

How to install Discord Thread-First Channels

These commands are copied from the project's README. Check the repository for the latest steps before you run them.

hermes plugins install vforge-labs/hermes-discord-thread-first-channels
hermes plugins enable hermes-discord-thread-first-channels --no-allow-tool-override

Requirements: A Hermes Agent version whose Discord adapter exposes _handle_message, _discord_require_mention and _discord_free_response_channels; restart the profile gateway after enabling

Note: It depends on internal Hermes Discord adapter methods, so the README says to run its tests after Hermes upgrades.

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