Every scheduled skills-index.yml run since 2026-07-20 was cancelled at the 15-minute
job timeout, so the live skills-index.json has been frozen at that date and every
`hermes skills search` fell through to live GitHub API calls (~500 inspect requests per
cold search, against a 60/hr unauthenticated budget). The freshness watchdog has been
appending to #66616 four times a day since.
Root cause: enrich_owners() walks every ClawHub skill's detail endpoint (~2s each) to
fetch an owner handle for the "View source" link. The catalog grew from ~50k to 78k
skills, so even at 30 workers that phase alone runs over an hour; nothing bounded it.
- enrich_owners() gains budget_seconds: on expiry it stops and ships the remainder
without an owner (the link is a nicety; the index is not).
- build_skills_index.py passes an 8-minute budget.
- skills-index.yml build job timeout 15 -> 50 min to cover the measured critical path
(clawhub walk ~14 min || github taps ~8 min, skills.sh resolve ~6 min, enrichment 8 min).
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