What problem does it solve? Running the Hermes Agent gateway reliably on WSL is fragile: gateways die silently when chat sessions close, zombie processes block bot tokens, restart commands kill tmux sessions, and config YAML corruption silently reverts to defaults. This Skill provides the operational runbook to start, persist, diagnose, and repair the gateway and its Telegram/Slack/Discord connections. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Gateway Lifecycle Management: Start the gateway in a detached tmux session with a watchdog script that auto-restarts after SIGTERM, crashes, or hermes gateway restart commands. - Failure Diagnosis: Step-by-step fixes for 14+ documented failure modes including zombie processes, slow LLM responses, raw tool-call XML leaking into Slack, PGLite WAL corruption, and config YAML parse errors. - Auto-Start on WSL: Configure .bashrc and Windows Task Scheduler so the gateway survives VM reboots and terminal closures. - Use Case: Your Slack bot stops responding after a gateway restart. Use this Skill to identify the tmux session exit, install the watchdog wrapper, and restore the gateway with auto-recovery in minutes. ## Quick Start Ask the agent to check the Hermes gateway status and restart it inside a tmux session using the watchdog script.