hermes-agent/gateway
Teknium bc79e227e6 feat(curator): background skill maintenance (issue #7816)
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.
2026-04-28 22:33:33 -07:00
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builtin_hooks remove: BOOT.md built-in hook (#17093) 2026-04-28 09:50:27 -07:00
platforms fix(discord): widen slash-sync timeout to 600s under rate-limit pressure (#16713) (#17029) 2026-04-28 07:02:43 -07:00
__init__.py Enhance CLI with multi-platform messaging integration and configuration management 2026-02-02 19:01:51 -08:00
channel_directory.py fix(Slack): resolve Slack channels by raw ID and enumerate joined channels 2026-04-26 12:29:02 -07:00
config.py fix(gateway): keep env-token Slack enabled 2026-04-27 18:19:14 -07:00
delivery.py refactor: remove dead code — 1,784 lines across 77 files (#9180) 2026-04-13 16:32:04 -07:00
display_config.py fix(gateway): default Slack tool_progress to off 2026-04-26 18:33:35 -07:00
hooks.py remove: BOOT.md built-in hook (#17093) 2026-04-28 09:50:27 -07:00
mirror.py fix(gateway): avoid cross-user mirror writes in per-user group sessions 2026-04-26 18:31:24 -07:00
pairing.py refactor: consolidate symlink-safe atomic replace into shared helper 2026-04-28 04:58:22 -07:00
restart.py fix(gateway): address restart review feedback 2026-04-10 21:18:34 -07:00
run.py feat(curator): background skill maintenance (issue #7816) 2026-04-28 22:33:33 -07:00
runtime_footer.py feat(gateway): opt-in runtime-metadata footer on final replies (#17026) 2026-04-28 06:50:04 -07:00
session.py chore: remove unused imports and dead locals (ruff F401, F841) (#17010) 2026-04-28 06:46:45 -07:00
session_context.py fix(cron): run due jobs in parallel to prevent serial tick starvation (#13021) 2026-04-20 11:53:07 -07:00
status.py fix(gateway): only clear locks belonging to the replaced process 2026-04-23 15:07:06 -07:00
sticker_cache.py chore: remove ~100 unused imports across 55 files (#3016) 2026-03-25 15:02:03 -07:00
stream_consumer.py fix(gateway): linearize tool-progress bubbles with content messages (#17280) 2026-04-28 22:17:33 -07:00
whatsapp_identity.py fix(whatsapp_identity): pin identifier regex to ASCII, clarify it's defense-in-depth 2026-04-26 20:48:31 -07:00