* feat(skills): watchers skill — poll RSS / HTTP JSON / GitHub via cron no-agent
Ships three reusable polling scripts plus a shared watermark helper as an
optional skill. Users wire them into the existing cron (no_agent=True)
mode rather than learning a new subsystem.
Supersedes the closed PR #21497 (parallel watcher subsystem). Same value,
zero new core surface.
## What ships
- optional-skills/devops/watchers/SKILL.md: pattern + three example cron commands
- optional-skills/devops/watchers/scripts/_watermark.py: shared helper
(atomic state writes, bounded ID set, first-run baseline)
- optional-skills/devops/watchers/scripts/watch_rss.py: RSS 2.0 + Atom
- optional-skills/devops/watchers/scripts/watch_http_json.py: any JSON endpoint
with configurable id_field / items_path / headers
- optional-skills/devops/watchers/scripts/watch_github.py: issues / pulls /
releases / commits (uses GITHUB_TOKEN if present)
## Invariants enforced by the shared helper
- First run records baseline, emits nothing (never replays existing feed)
- Watermark file is <state_dir>/<name>.json, atomic replace on write
- Bounded to 500 IDs (configurable)
- Empty stdout when no new items — cron treats that as silent delivery
## Validation
- watch_rss.py against news.ycombinator.com/rss first run → empty stdout, watermark populated
- Removed one seen-id, second run → emitted exactly that item
- No DeprecationWarnings (ET element truth-value footgun dodged explicitly)
End-user pattern: 'hermes cron create my-feed --schedule "*/15 * * * *" --no-agent --script $HERMES_HOME/skills/devops/watchers/scripts/watch_rss.py --script-args "--name hn --url https://news.ycombinator.com/rss" --deliver telegram'
* docs(skills/watchers): tighten description to match peer optional skills
* docs(skills/watchers): align frontmatter + structure with peer optional skills
* docs(skills/watchers): gate to linux/macos (shell syntax in examples)
Rewires @LVT382009's disk-guardian (PR #12212) from a skill-plus-script
into a plugin that runs entirely via hooks — no agent compliance needed.
- post_tool_call hook auto-tracks files created by write_file / terminal
/ patch when they match test_/tmp_/*.test.* patterns under HERMES_HOME
- on_session_end hook runs cmd_quick cleanup when test files were
auto-tracked during the turn; stays quiet otherwise
- /disk-guardian slash command keeps status / dry-run / quick / deep /
track / forget for manual use
- Deterministic cleanup rules, path safety, atomic writes, and audit
logging preserved from the original contribution
- Protect well-known top-level state dirs (logs/, memories/, sessions/,
cron/, cache/, etc.) from empty-dir removal so fresh installs don't
get gutted on first session end
The plugin system gains a bundled-plugin discovery path (<repo>/plugins/
<name>/) alongside user/project/entry-point sources. Memory and
context_engine subdirs are skipped — they keep their own discovery
paths. HERMES_DISABLE_BUNDLED_PLUGINS=1 suppresses the scan; the test
conftest sets it by default so existing plugin tests stay clean.
Co-authored-by: LVT382009 <levantam.98.2324@gmail.com>
* feat(gateway): skill-aware slash commands, paginated /commands, Telegram 100-cap
Map active skills to Telegram's slash command menu so users can
discover and invoke skills directly. Three changes:
1. Telegram menu now includes active skill commands alongside built-in
commands, capped at 100 entries (Telegram Bot API limit). Overflow
commands remain callable but hidden from the picker. Logged at
startup when cap is hit.
2. New /commands [page] gateway command for paginated browsing of all
commands + skills. /help now shows first 10 skill commands and
points to /commands for the full list.
3. When a user types a slash command that matches a disabled or
uninstalled skill, they get actionable guidance:
- Disabled: 'Enable it with: hermes skills config'
- Optional (not installed): 'Install with: hermes skills install official/<path>'
Built on ideas from PR #3921 by @kshitijk4poor.
* chore: move 21 niche skills to optional-skills
Move specialized/niche skills from built-in (skills/) to optional
(optional-skills/) to reduce the default skill count. Users can
install them with: hermes skills install official/<category>/<name>
Moved skills (21):
- mlops: accelerate, chroma, faiss, flash-attention,
hermes-atropos-environments, huggingface-tokenizers, instructor,
lambda-labs, llava, nemo-curator, pinecone, pytorch-lightning,
qdrant, saelens, simpo, slime, tensorrt-llm, torchtitan
- research: domain-intel, duckduckgo-search
- devops: inference-sh cli
Built-in skills: 96 → 75
Optional skills: 22 → 43
* fix: only include repo built-in skills in Telegram menu, not user-installed
User-installed skills (from hub or manually added) stay accessible via
/skills and by typing the command directly, but don't get registered
in the Telegram slash command picker. Only skills whose SKILL.md is
under the repo's skills/ directory are included in the menu.
This keeps the Telegram menu focused on the curated built-in set while
user-installed skills remain discoverable through /skills and /commands.
Docker CLI reference covering containers, images, Compose, volumes,
networks, troubleshooting, and Dockerfile optimization. Placed in
optional-skills/devops/ since it's a documentation-only skill with
no external dependencies beyond Docker CLI.
Based on PR #3032 by @sprmn24. Moved from skills/ to optional-skills/
and trimmed the description to be concise.
Co-authored-by: sprmn24 <sprmn24@users.noreply.github.com>
