Bundled skills unused for 30 days were archived on a startup tick with no prompt
(57 in one launch: arxiv, imessage, xlsx, powerpoint, pytorch-fsdp, ...), then
suppressed from re-seeding on update. Shipped skills silently missing from
skills_list reads as a broken install. Agent-created skills remain the curator's
job; built-in pruning is opt-in via curator.prune_builtins: true.
Users who already carry prune_builtins: true in config.yaml are unaffected.
Follow-through on the 6-minute startup hang: the curator's storage grew without bound
and every pass paid for it. 1.9 GB skills tree = 1.1 GB snapshots + 653 MB ledger +
131 MB archive + ~50 MB skills.
- Snapshot only before a consolidation pass (the one that rewrites content in place).
The prune-only pass renames directories into .archive/ (its own undo) and every
mutation is ledgered; a whole-tree tarball before a rename was ceremony. Retention
(keep, default 5 -> 2) still runs on every pass, and a snapshot can no longer be its
own prune victim (same-second id reuse after a prune sorted below its sibling).
- Ledger entries drop paths whose hash is identical on both sides. rollback_entry
writes every before-path and removes after-only paths, so unchanged files were dead
weight: a 4,178-file skill cost 1.5 MB per patch. `hermes curator ledger --compact`
rewrites an existing log in place (655 MB -> 4.8 MB on the real one, ids preserved);
pre-rollback safety entries keep their full capture.
- archive_skill flattens under the skill NAME (mlops/training/accelerate is
huggingface-accelerate) and restore_skill falls back to the frontmatter name for
archives older builds flattened by directory name (6 of 52 were unrestorable).
- maybe_run_curator claims the due pass with an O_EXCL lock (stale after 1 h); two CLIs
launched 12 s apart both ran the weekly prune.
Slim follow-up to the cherry-picked #111585 (@KoNit-K):
- tools/skill_usage.py: generalize the usage ledger's `_usage_file_lock()` into
`skill_file_lock(lock_path)` — same fcntl/msvcrt idiom, now thread-re-entrant
via a per-thread held set (flock is not re-entrant across separate fds; a
ContextVar would leak "held" into copy_context() timer threads).
- tools/skill_manager_tool.py: drop the third fcntl/msvcrt copy, hashlib and the
ContextVar; the per-skill lock is `<skills>/.locks/<skill-dir-name>.lock`
(readable, outside the skill dir so delete/recreate cannot unlink it under a
waiting writer). Batch locks sort by lock PATH, not name, so two batches
naming the same skills in different forms cannot deadlock.
- tools/skill_manager_batch.py: plain `with` around snapshot -> commit/rollback
instead of manual __enter__/__exit__ bookkeeping.
- tests: trimmed to two invariants — the two-writer lost-update test on
SKILL.md (from #111585) and a re-entrancy/exclusivity test on the helper.
Dropped: the edit/write_file/remove_file parametrization (same dispatcher
path as patch) and the category-dir cleanup test (lock files never lived in
category dirs here).
record_created now stamps created_by="learn" on foreground creates
(e.g. /learn) instead of leaving it unset, and the learning-graph filter
honors "learn" alongside "agent"/used. "learn" is a learning-signal
marker only: curator management stays keyed strictly on "agent"
(_is_curator_managed_record), so user-taught skills appear in /journey
without becoming eligible for autonomous curation.
Fixes#111317.
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authored with AI assistance (Muse, Meta's Muse Spark) under the contributor's direction; the contributor reviewed the diff and ran the tests.
Reverts the in-tree org skill-marketplace: hermes_wisdom package, three
model tools, CLI/gateway/desktop/dashboard/Telegram/Slack surfaces.
Later non-Wisdom work on shared files (guest onboarding i18n, dashboard
startup schema, Slack adapter, tui_gateway) is kept; Wisdom-only call
sites and config were stripped from those files.
* feat(wisdom): add trusted publish and install foundation
* feat(wisdom): add private contribution loop
* feat(wisdom): add managed consumption workflows
* fix(wisdom): close cross-repository safety gaps
* fix(wisdom): align local package and lifecycle policy
* fix(wisdom): require explicit profile setup
* docs(wisdom): repin reconciled gateway head
* fix(wisdom): fence content downloads and approval receipts
* docs(wisdom): record generation-fenced downloads
* docs(wisdom): record unified delivery PR
* fix(ci): stop passing invalid classifier inputs
* docs(wisdom): remove internal requirements ledger
* feat(wisdom): localize dashboard and desktop copy
* feat(wisdom): complete local contribution and consumption UX
* style(wisdom): satisfy desktop lint
* chore(wisdom): refresh requirements pin
* test(dashboard): allow formatted profile copy
* test(wisdom): stabilize desktop interaction coverage
* fix(wisdom): surface dashboard action failures
* fix(wisdom): add repeatable Portal demo login
* feat(wisdom): add actionable skill notifications
* feat(wisdom): add notification install and update actions
* fix(wisdom): make Telegram skill alerts actionable
* fix(wisdom): always refresh demo Agent login
* feat(wisdom): embed Telegram notification actions
* fix(wisdom): preserve Telegram notifications after actions
* fix(wisdom): keep Telegram notification cards readable
* feat(wisdom): add Telegram candidate approval flow
* feat(wisdom): explain Telegram qualification reasons
* fix(wisdom): reconcile cross-surface candidate actions
* feat(telegram): add Collective Wisdom management command
* chore(wisdom): refresh Gateway contract pin
* chore(wisdom): advance Gateway contract pin
* feat(wisdom): align command UX across clients
* feat(slack): add Collective Wisdom management parity
* feat(wisdom): add security and professionalism reviews
* feat(wisdom): add first-time qualification guidance
* feat(wisdom): simplify qualification sharing choices
* feat(skills): add optional editorial metadata
* feat(wisdom): enrich legacy skill presentation
* fix(wisdom): harden review and update boundaries
* fix(wisdom): emit canonical review timestamps
* fix(wisdom): align with merged gateway and main
* wisdom: add agent-led sharing core (policy, evidence, schemas, templates, delivery, weekly job, share/install flows)
- hermes_wisdom/agent_led/: policy resolution (server > local > defaults),
7-day evidence builder that excludes bundled/hub/managed skills and
dismissed/handled/recently-suggested content hashes, strict pydantic
schemas for agent output with repair-or-reject, fixed copy templates
(Share / Teammate / Published / Update / Mute), idempotent retried
delivery ledger with stale-action resolution, weekly review job,
resumable Share and Install flows.
- prompts/: candidate review, recipient recommendation, share packaging.
- tests/wisdom/test_agent_led.py: 30 tests.
* wisdom: agent-led renderers and button action dispatcher
- render.py: Telegram HTML, Slack blocks, Desktop payload; editorial name
is the emphasized line, product label stays separate.
- actions.py: resolve opaque wa:<action>:<dedup> targets via the delivery
ledger; Not now -> dismissal, Mute -> fixed options, Share -> resumable
packaging flow, Install/Update -> plan command. Never publishes/installs.
* wisdom: CLI verbs, agent_led config default, conversational catalog skill
- hermes wisdom browse/review-week/act/share/dismiss/mute (all --json).
- wisdom.agent_led config block, default enabled.
- SKILL.md rewritten so natural-language catalog questions map to the CLI
verbs, share/install flows and fixed notification templates.
* wisdom: wire agent-led weekly review into gateway tick and Telegram buttons
- gateway housekeeping tick calls maybe_run_weekly_review with a home
channel sender when a Telegram adapter is available.
- Telegram: wa: callbacks resolved through the ledger (stale-safe), mute
duration keyboard, send_wisdom_agent_recommendation rich card + fallback.
* fix(wisdom): integrate local mediation and harden model and setup boundaries
* fix(wisdom): honor authoritative recommendation policy and defer on failure
* fix(wisdom): synchronize opaque suppression and recheck delivery preferences
* feat(wisdom): route weekly selection through the session-owned assessment queue
* fix(wisdom): prepare and submit the reviewed generated share package
* feat(wisdom): separate native Share preparation from publication consent
* feat(wisdom): sync native mute choices through a leased preference outbox
* feat(wisdom): bind native mute controls to durable preference choices
* feat(wisdom): add scoped desktop and dashboard notification settings
* fix(wisdom): revalidate feed recommendations before assessment and delivery
* fix(wisdom): persist validated delivery receipts before completing notices
* feat(wisdom): add private notification claim and receipt client
* Persist Wisdom send reservations and recover delivery acknowledgements
* Route legacy Wisdom controls through current native review
* Add typed private Wisdom operation outcome client
* fix(wisdom): make agent-led advice usable in the local demo
* fix(wisdom): keep requested consent outside proactive limits
* fix(wisdom): distinguish unavailable assessments and preserve digest text
* fix(wisdom): assess ongoing usefulness beyond the current task
* fix(wisdom): restore immediate qualification sharing controls
* fix(wisdom): separate qualification review from installation advice
* fix(wisdom): collapse review checklists and simplify sharing copy
* fix(wisdom): show compact sharing progress and publication receipts
* fix(wisdom): require credential prefixes rather than matching skill names
* fix(wisdom): finish package checks before presenting sharing consent
* fix(wisdom): scan local skills before qualification cards
* fix(wisdom): update moderation results on existing sharing cards
* fix(wisdom): keep sharing review accessible from receipt cards
* fix(wisdom): align mediated review cards and collapsible checks
* fix(wisdom): clarify clean security summary wording
* fix(wisdom): normalize consent plans and add explicit recheck
* fix(wisdom): keep install and update receipts concise
* fix(wisdom): collapse assessments and deduplicate operation cards
* fix(wisdom): restore private Portal review from native cards
* fix(wisdom): sync Portal publication to original consent card
* fix(wisdom): show local skill version on sharing cards
* fix(wisdom): skip agent recommendations for self-published versions
* fix(wisdom): simplify candidate notices and local-edit recovery copy
* feat(wisdom): submit locally reviewed packages with one confirmation
* feat(wisdom): expose safe receipt and outcome sync recovery
* wisdom: onboarding notice says detect and share, names the user's own skill
Copy review from the product owner on the first and returning
qualification notices (fixed delivery mode):
- the feature blurb now says the org enabled detection *and sharing*
- both notices say the detected skill is one the user created
- both close with an exclamation mark
Applied identically to hermes_wisdom.notice, the desktop and web i18n
strings, and the tests that assert the sentences.
* wisdom: one opener, no approval line, ask to share after the skill is shown
Product owner review of the candidate card.
- The Hermes written card now opens with the same sentence as the fixed card
("Your organisation has enabled Collective Wisdom, a feature designed to
automatically detect and share useful skills across all team members.")
instead of its own blurb, so there is one first time message.
- "Nothing is shared without your approval." removed from Telegram, Slack
and Desktop. The buttons already make the permission explicit.
- "Would you like to share?" no longer appears before the skill is named.
It is now the last line, after the skill name, description, why suggested
and the checks, and reads "Would you like to share it?" (matching the
agent led template wording).
Tests updated for the new order; proposalNotice removed from all desktop locales.
* wisdom: American spelling, organization
Product owner decision: user facing copy uses American spelling.
Changes "Your organisation" to "Your organization" in the chat notice,
the Hermes written card opener, the desktop and web strings, and the
tests that assert them. Identifiers such as nas_organisation:* and the
German and French locales are untouched.
* wisdom: candidate card copy round 4 (owner review)
Apply the product owner's round 4 copy decisions to the Hermes Collective
Wisdom candidate card on Telegram, Slack, Desktop and the shared views:
1. Hermes-written cards are titled "Hermes Collective Wisdom" instead of
the bare "Collective Wisdom".
2. The "Reusable skill ready to review" line is gone from the candidate
card (Telegram rich card and plain fallback, legacy agent-led share
template).
3. The skill name and description are labelled: "Skill name: <name>" and
"What it does: <description>" (Telegram, Slack, Desktop).
4. "Why suggested:" is now "Why others might benefit:".
5. A passing professionalism review reads "Safe to share at work ✓ (no
inappropriate content found)" with no per-check bullets and no "Pass";
a failed review reads "Needs a look before sharing at work (possible
inappropriate content)" and lists only the checks that flagged
something. Pending/unavailable wording is unchanged.
6. Telegram button toasts: "Will ask later...", "Preparing more
details...", "Sharing...".
7. Qualification reasons: "You used this skill consistently across many
days." and "You've really refined this skill."
8. prompts/wisdom_candidate_review.md asks for a compelling
editorial_name, a simple one_line_description and a compelling
why_coworkers_benefit under 300 characters; "Be concise and
convincing." becomes "Be concise and compelling: the goal is that the
user wants to share it."
Tests updated for the new strings; review_text() gains direct coverage.
* wisdom: re-apply owner copy after rebase
- Native share cards (advice_view/interaction_view): drop the approval line, ask "Would you like to share it?" as the last line after the checks
- Hermes-written completion card titled "Hermes Collective Wisdom"
- Qualification reasons use the owner wording (consistently across many days / really refined)
- American spelling (organization) in remaining English copy
- Desktop test asserts the current Share button; web test matches the returning notice
* fix(wisdom): pin reconciled Gateway and verify Unicode hash vectors
Pin Gateway 60cd2d6b613ae3cd4a6e65155d1142006d907e78 and byte-identical producer artifacts. Verify every content-order case and package-manifest binding. Validation: 186 focused Python tests, Ruff and contract verifier.
* fix(wisdom): reconcile optional SDK tests and frontend lint
* fix(wisdom): default to agent-written notification summaries
* fix(wisdom): restore deferred install review and browse controls
* feat(wisdom): inspect installed setup with exact package provenance
* feat(wisdom): run native-approved installed setup steps with durable evidence
* fix(wisdom): recover interrupted setup with explicit native consent
* feat(wisdom): hand native installs into guided setup review
* fix(wisdom): continue requested setup with fixed notification copy
* fix(wisdom): preserve setup while waiting for a session model
* fix(wisdom): expose canonical setup review controls on desktop
* fix(wisdom): resume setup after recorded automatic updates
* fix(wisdom): make missing setup prerequisites recheckable
* chore(wisdom): align Agent with verified Gateway contract
* fix(wisdom): stop guessing team slugs in portal links
* fix(wisdom): retire pending advice on account sign-out
* fix(wisdom): cancel advice after terminal account revocation
* fix(wisdom): fence feed responses across account sign-out
* fix(wisdom): checkpoint signed-out feed before reactivation
* fix(wisdom): link proactive advice to scoped notification settings
* fix(wisdom): coalesce queued publication recommendations by version
* fix(wisdom): keep package review navigation local and deferable
* fix(wisdom): reflect installed state in discovery controls
* fix(wisdom): show exact checks before command confirmation
* chore(wisdom): pin bounded analytics privacy contract
* chore(wisdom): pin retired legacy notification contract
* feat(wisdom): review publisher usage with exact sharing copy
* fix(wisdom): align discovery and review check summaries
* fix(wisdom): show expired consent before confirmation
* fix(wisdom): require fresh review for legacy install controls
* fix(wisdom): preserve review expiry across check toggles
* fix(wisdom): retain update policy in native install reviews
* fix(wisdom): surface failed native card edits
* fix(wisdom): persist local command approval reviews
* fix(wisdom): use saved approvals for messaging commands
* test(wisdom): provide scan result in setup handoff fixture
* test(wisdom): exercise Telegram approvals with saved review state
* fix(wisdom): retain suppression policy for offline deferral
* fix(wisdom): reconsider candidates after deferred suppression expires
* fix(wisdom): bind review checks and report verified readiness separately
* fix(wisdom): persist accepted publication intent and recover exact outcomes
* fix(sync): pin UTF-8 tree ordering across writers
* chore(wisdom): pin organisation-scoped Gateway authorization
* fix(wisdom): restrict consent delivery to user-facing sessions
* chore(wisdom): refresh reviewed Gateway contract pin
* fix(wisdom): preserve kept tools in Blank Slate exclusions
* test(auth): reset anonymous fixture with a profile-scoped cache
* fix(wisdom): gate local surfaces and work on current profile entitlement
* fix(wisdom): invalidate quiet tool cache on entitlement changes
* test(wisdom): authorize local consent gateway fixtures
* fix(wisdom): keep entitlement decoding free of native crypto imports
* test(wisdom): provide local entitlement to demo CLI subprocess
* ci: leave upstream workflow unchanged in Wisdom PR
* fix(wisdom): ship package and contracts in Nix wheels
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Co-authored-by: hbizi <36184542+hbizi@users.noreply.github.com>
The bundled plan skill's auto-generated slash command fell off the capped
Telegram/Discord command menus for most installs (skills are the only tier
trimmed at the platform caps, alphabetically — 'plan' sat past the cutoff at
index 57 of 82 bundled skills). Converting it to a first-class CommandDef
gives it a guaranteed core-tier menu slot on every platform.
- agent/plan_prompt.py: build_plan_prompt() — plan-mode rules + authoring
craft distilled from the retired skill; prompt-injection pattern like
/learn and /init (no engine, no model-tool footprint, cache-safe).
- CLI: _handle_plan_command mixin handler (pending-input injection).
- Gateway: /plan branch rewrites event.text and falls through (role
alternation preserved).
- TUI: command.dispatch branch ('plan' was already in
_PENDING_INPUT_COMMANDS).
- Removed skills/software-development/plan/ + docs pages (EN + zh-Hans),
catalog rows, sidebar entry, related_skills references.
- PROTECTED_BUILTIN_SKILLS is now empty (mechanism kept); dependent
curator/usage tests moved to monkeypatched sentinels.
Salvages #67292 by @webtecnica (credit: first /plan command submission,
issue #67264); reworked from inline planning prompt to the prompt-injection
pattern with workspace-saved plans. Closes#67264, closes#36821 (empty
/plan infers task from conversation context).
Second, deeper pass over tools/gateway/hermes_cli plus first pass over
the trees wave 1 missed (acp, acp_adapter, skills, computer_use, docker,
dashboard, conformance, monitoring, secret_sources, hermes_state,
providers). Same rubric as wave 1 (AGENTS.md test policy); security,
alternation/caching invariants, issue-number regressions, and E2E kept.
Real test-quality fixes found and rooted out along the way:
- tests/tools/test_command_guards.py made real auxiliary-LLM HTTPS calls
(DEFAULT_CONFIG smart-approval leaked in) — pinned approval
mode=manual via autouse fixture: 17.4s → 0.4s.
- test_model_switch_custom_providers.py / test_user_providers_model_switch.py
silently probed live provider catalogs (~2s/test) — stubbed
cached_provider_model_ids/provider_model_ids/fetch_api_models.
- test_telegram_noise_filter.py: 15-platform copy-paste matrix over
shared gateway.run logic → 3 representative platforms (55s → 3.9s).
- test_gateway_shutdown.py: stop()'s 5s interrupt-deadline loop spun on
MagicMock agents — interrupt.side_effect now clears _running_agents
(22s → 1.0s).
- test_gateway_inactivity_timeout.py poll-harness timings shrunk 3-5x
(24s → 1.1s); test_mcp_stability.py backoff/SIGTERM-grace sleeps
patched (15.4s → 2.5s); test_async_delegation.py negative-drain wait
5s → 0.5s.
- test_telegram_init_deadline.py: loop-block margin restored to 1.0s
with rationale comment — the watchdog-dump assertion needs the loop
blocked well past deadline+grace under parallel load (flaked once in
the 40-worker verification run at a 0.2s margin).
Verification: full hermetic suite via scripts/run_tests.sh —
2,438 files, 21,718 tests passed, 0 failed, 293.9s wall.
Suite totals vs original baseline: 46,820 → 19,757 test functions
(−57.8%), wall 583.5s → 293.9s (−50%), subprocess CPU 13,564s → 11,623s.
`hermes curator status` reported only the skills it manages, staying silent
about curation-eligible skills it can never touch. On a 237-skill library that
meant 112 skills were invisible to every automatic transition with no signal
anywhere — the curator looked broken when it was working as designed.
A skill becomes curator-managed only when `created_by: agent` lands on its
usage record, and only the background review fork writes that marker. Two
populations therefore never qualify: records written before the marker existed
(no key at all, authorship unknowable) and every foreground
`skill_manage(create)` (unset by design — those skills belong to the user).
- skill_usage: `list_unmanaged_skill_names()` / `unmanaged_report()` enumerate
the blind spot, tagging each row with `has_provenance_key` so the two causes
are distinguishable. `adopt_skill()` writes the marker on user declaration
and refuses bundled, hub-installed, external, and protected built-ins.
Adoption never resets the inactivity clock.
- curator CLI: status prints an `unmanaged (no provenance marker)` block on
BOTH the managed and no-managed-skills paths; new `adopt` verb takes names or
`--all-unmanaged`, with `--dry-run` and a confirmation prompt on bulk.
- skills_sync: `_backfill_optional_provenance()` matched candidates by
repo-derived path only, so a skill installed at `mlops/chroma` that upstream
later moved to `mlops/vector-databases/chroma` was skipped forever and
`hermes skills repair-optional` could not fix it. Falls back to an
unambiguous name match, still gated on identical content, and records the
ACTUAL install path.
Provenance stays a declaration, never an inference: a high patch count proves
the agent MAINTAINS a skill, not that it authored one, since Hermes edits
user-written skills on the user's behalf routinely. An "looks agent-made"
heuristic would eventually archive hand-written work.
Validation: 347 targeted tests pass. Each new test verified via sabotage run
(revert the fix, confirm the test goes red) — one initially passed for the
wrong reason because the fixture pinned `prune_builtins` off, masking the guard
under test; fixed to force the shipped default on.
restore_skill() falls back to p.name.startswith(f"{skill_name}-") when no
archive directory matches the requested name exactly. That fallback is meant
to catch the timestamped duplicate archive_skill() writes on a name collision
(<skill>-YYYYMMDDHHMMSS), but the bare prefix also matches any unrelated
archived skill named <name>-something. So restoring "git" can pull an archived
"git-helpers" out of .archive/, rename it to "git", and report success: the
requested skill is not restored and the sibling is gone from the archive.
Constrain the fallback to the exact suffix archive_skill() produces, a 14 digit
timestamp. The exact-name match and the recursive nested-archive walk are
unchanged, so nested and timestamped restores still work; unrelated siblings no
longer match.
Fixes#47647
Two related changes to the skill curator:
1. Built-in pruning. New curator.prune_builtins config (default on) lets the
curator archive bundled built-in skills after the inactivity period, not
just agent-created ones. A .curator_suppressed list tells the update-time
re-seeder (tools/skills_sync) to leave pruned built-ins archived, so the
prune is durable across `hermes update`. Built-ins are seeded with a
baseline record on first sight, so the inactivity clock starts at upgrade
time -- no mass-prune on the first run. Hub-installed skills are never
pruned regardless of the flag. Restoring a built-in clears its suppression.
2. Usage tracking for all skills. Telemetry (view/use/patch) was wrongly gated
behind curation-eligibility, so built-ins were tracked only when prunable
and hub skills never. Telemetry is observability and is now decoupled from
curation: every skill accrues usage counts regardless of provenance, while
lifecycle mutators (set_state/set_pinned/mark_agent_created) stay
curation-gated. New usage_report() + provenance() expose all skills with an
agent/bundled/hub tag.
Remove unused imports (F401) and duplicate/shadowed import
redefinitions (F811) across the codebase using ruff's safe
autofixes. No behavioral changes -- imports only.
- ~1400 safe autofixes applied across 644 files (net -1072 lines)
- __init__.py re-exports preserved (excluded from F401 removal so
public re-export surfaces stay intact)
- Re-exports that are imported or monkeypatched by tests but look
unused in their defining module are kept with explicit # noqa:
F401 (gateway/run.py load_dotenv; run_agent re-exports from
agent.message_sanitization, agent.context_compressor,
agent.retry_utils, agent.prompt_builder, agent.process_bootstrap,
agent.codex_responses_adapter)
- Unsafe F841 (unused-variable) fixes deliberately skipped -- those
can change behavior when the RHS has side effects
- ruff lints remain disabled in pyproject.toml (only PLW1514 is
selected); this is a one-time cleanup, not a config change
Verification:
- python -m compileall: clean
- pytest --collect-only: all 27161 tests collect (zero import errors)
- core entry points import clean (run_agent, model_tools, cli,
toolsets, hermes_state, batch_runner, gateway)
- static scan: every name any test imports directly from an edited
module still resolves
The cherry-picked test predates #19618/#19621 which rewrote
list_agent_created_skill_names() to require an explicit
created_by: 'agent' provenance marker. Without mark_agent_created(),
my-skill is excluded from the list and the positive assertion fails.
Treat skill views and edits as activity when curator reports and applies lifecycle transitions, so recently loaded or patched skills are not displayed or transitioned as never used.\n\nAdds regression tests for activity derivation, automatic transitions, and CLI status output.
restore_skill() in tools/skill_usage.py used archive_root.iterdir(), which
only walked the top level of .archive/. Skills archived under nested layouts
(e.g. .archive/openclaw-imports/<skill>/ from older archive paths or
external imports) were invisible to both the exact-match and prefix-match
candidate scans, surfacing as a misleading "skill '<name>' not found in
archive" error even though the directory existed on disk.
Switch both candidate scans to archive_root.rglob('*') so the lookup
descends into category subdirectories.
Fixes#17942
Previous invariants only gated the primary entry points
(apply_automatic_transitions, archive_skill, CLI pin). Several paths
were unprotected:
- bump_view / bump_use / bump_patch / set_state / set_pinned wrote
usage records unconditionally, which is confusing noise in
.usage.json even though the review list filtered them out
- restore_skill did not check whether a bundled skill now shadows
the archived name
- CLI unpin was asymmetric with CLI pin — it had no gate
Fixes:
- _mutate() (the shared counter / state writer) now drops silently
when the skill is not agent-created. .usage.json never gains a
record for a bundled or hub-installed skill.
- restore_skill() refuses to restore under a name that is now
bundled or hub-installed (would shadow upstream).
- CLI unpin gate matches CLI pin.
New tests:
- 5 provenance-guard tests on skill_usage (one per mutator)
- 1 end-to-end test that hammers every mutator at a bundled skill
and a hub skill, asserts both are untouched on disk, and asserts
the sidecar stays clean
- 2 CLI tests proving pin/unpin refuse bundled skills symmetrically
64/64 tests passing (29 skill_usage + 27 curator + 8 new guards).
Adds the Curator — an auxiliary-model background task that periodically
reviews AGENT-CREATED skills and keeps the collection tidy: tracks usage,
transitions unused skills through active → stale → archived, and spawns
a forked AIAgent to consolidate overlaps and patch drift.
Default: enabled, inactivity-triggered (no cron daemon). Runs on CLI
startup and gateway boot when the last run is older than interval_hours
(default 24) AND the agent has been idle for min_idle_hours (default 2).
Invariants (all load-bearing):
- Never touches bundled or hub-installed skills (.bundled_manifest +
.hub/lock.json double-filter)
- Never auto-deletes — archive only. Archives are recoverable
via `hermes curator restore <skill>`
- Pinned skills bypass all auto-transitions
- Uses the aux client; never touches the main session's prompt cache
New files:
- tools/skill_usage.py — sidecar .usage.json telemetry, atomic writes,
provenance filter
- agent/curator.py — orchestrator: config, idle gating, state-machine
transitions (pure, no LLM), forked-agent review prompt
- hermes_cli/curator.py — `hermes curator {status,run,pause,resume,
pin,unpin,restore}` subcommand
- tests/tools/test_skill_usage.py — 29 tests
- tests/agent/test_curator.py — 25 tests
Modified files (surgical patches):
- tools/skills_tool.py — bump view_count on successful skill_view
- tools/skill_manager_tool.py — bump patch_count on skill_manage
patch/edit/write_file/remove_file; forget record on delete
- hermes_cli/config.py — add curator: section to DEFAULT_CONFIG
- hermes_cli/commands.py — add /curator CommandDef with subcommands
- hermes_cli/main.py — register `hermes curator` subparser via
register_cli() from hermes_cli.curator
- cli.py — /curator slash-command dispatch + startup hook
- gateway/run.py — gateway-boot hook (mirrors CLI)
Validation:
- 54 new tests across skill_usage + curator, all passing in 3s
- 346 tests across all touched files' neighbors green
- 2783 tests across hermes_cli/ + gateway/test_run_progress_topics.py green
- CLI smoke: `hermes curator status/pause/resume` work end-to-end
Companion to PR #16026 (class-first skill review prompt) — together
they form a loop: the review prompt stops near-duplicate skill creation
at the source, and the curator prunes/consolidates what still accumulates.
Refs #7816.
