* refactor(skills): shipped-set slim — 15 skills to optional, github six-way merge, pdf absorbs OCR+nano-pdf, channel-gated teams pipeline
Maintainer-directed shipped-skills curation (skills index 1,900 -> ~1,400
tok/call on desktop; every session pays the index, so this is a per-call
diet on all installs):
- optional-skills moves (installable via skills hub, history preserved):
creative comfyui/ascii-art/excalidraw/pretext/sketch/touchdesigner-mcp;
ALL of mlops (huggingface-hub, llama-cpp, serving-llms-vllm,
weights-and-biases, evaluating-llms-harness — subcategory structure
kept); research-paper-writing (55 supporting files, 17.3K-tok load);
openhue; blogwatcher (first taught the cronjob monitor-field watch
pattern + web_extract instead of pre-cron manual workflows)
- DELETED session-librarian (Aug-12 'inspired by Perplexity Computer'
port, never maintainer-intended; session_search covers discovery)
- github: six skills (auth, issues, pr-workflow, issue-to-pr,
code-review, repo-management) merged into ONE software-development/
github skill — routing body + complete per-workflow references;
benbarclay authorship credited; codebase-inspection rides along;
discipline pins from test_github_issue_to_pr_skill.py preserved
against the reference body in the new test_github_skill.py
- pdf absorbs ocr-and-documents + nano-pdf as references/ + scripts
(extract_pymupdf, extract_marker converted to the argparse house
standard its contract test enforces)
- NEW session_platforms frontmatter gate (metadata.hermes): hides a
skill from the index on gateway channels it is not for; fail-open on
unknown platform; teams-meeting-pipeline gated to [teams, cron]
- blocked-page-recovery: research -> new web category; trigger-first
description ('Use when a fetch fails: 403/429, paywall, WAF, bot
wall.') so the model actually reaches for it on blocked fetches
- docs regenerated via generate-skill-docs.py (195 pages); related_skills
swept repo-wide; tests: 1672 passed (2 openclaw failures pre-existing
on clean main, Windows-local)
* chore: ignore .skills_prompt_snapshot.json (local index cache, accidentally committed)
Discovered while dogfooding the skill end-to-end:
- pgrep -if "TouchDesigner" matched any shell whose command line
contained the substring (including the setup script's own invocation
under certain wrappers), falsely reporting TD running on machines
where it isn't. Switch to pgrep -x (exact process name match,
supported on both macOS and Linux) and also check TouchDesignerFTE
(the non-commercial variant).
- The embedded python3 yaml-writer printed 'added' / 'exists' to
stdout as status, which leaked a stray word into the setup output
right before the ✔ line. Drop the print()s — the bash-level ✔/✘ is
the status indicator.
- Remove orphan skills/creative/touchdesigner/references/pitfalls.md
left over from the rename commit (git add-then-edit instead of git mv
meant the old file never got deleted).
- Honour $HERMES_HOME in setup.sh and SKILL.md setup invocation so
profile-aware installs work correctly.
- Fix troubleshooting.md config path to use $HERMES_HOME instead of
hardcoding ~/.hermes/.
- Add touchdesigner-mcp entries to skills-catalog.md and
optional-skills-catalog.md for parity with blender-mcp/meme-generation.
