How-To Series · Episode 18 / 59 · Module 3: Make It Yours
Hermes · The Curator
A background gardener for your agent-created skills. Archives stale ones · never deletes.
After this videoYou can now let your skill library curate itself, safely — with rollback if you don't like a pass.
The curator is a background pass for agent-created skills only — never bundled, never hub-installed, never deletes. Idle-driven (default 7-day interval, 2-hour idle). Two phases: deterministic active → stale → archived at 30/90 days, then an aux-LLM review that can patch or consolidate. First run is deferred a full interval after install, so use that window to --dry-run and pin. Every real run snapshots ~/.hermes/skills/ first; hermes curator rollback recovers in one command.
About these resources. Every command and threshold in this video comes from the Curator user-guide doc. The Skills System doc is cited as the source of the self-improvement loop that creates the skills the curator maintains.
Sources · What this video distills
2 docs pages · every command below traces to one of themCommands shown · Copy and paste
each shows the source doc it came fromhermes curator run --dry-runhermes curator pin <skill>hermes curator statushermes curator rollbackhermes curator restore <skill>Going deeper · Related Hermes docs
further reading · not sources of facts shown aboveNext in the series · Episodes that build on this
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