after-install.md

nostrkey for Hermes — installed ✓

Your Hermes Agent now has 5 tools in the nostrkey toolset:

• nostrkey_generate — create a fresh keypair
• nostrkey_whoami — print loaded npub
• nostrkey_save — encrypt + persist to disk
• nostrkey_load — decrypt + load from disk
• nostrkey_sign_event — sign a Nostr event

First run

> Generate me a Nostr identity, then save it.

The default save location is $HERMES_HOME/.nostrkey/identity.nostrkey — encrypted with the passphrase you supply. If you lose the passphrase the identity is gone; there is no recovery flow.

Dependencies

This plugin vendors the nostrkey library and depends on: cryptography, bech32, mnemonic, websockets. Hermes installs them into its venv on first load. If imports fail, run:

uv pip install cryptography bech32 mnemonic websockets

inside the Hermes venv.

Source

• This plugin: https://github.com/HumanjavaEnterprises/nostrkey.app.HA-python.src
• Underlying library (PyPI / OpenClaw): https://pypi.org/project/nostrkey/
• Docs: https://loginwithnostr.com/hermes