hermes-skill-hygiene-review

Skill hygiene review identifies stale or overly narrow agent skills by comparing active custom skills against recurrence and reuse criteria. It returns explicit archive or merge candidate suggestions without automatically modifying your skill files.

The best way to review Hermes skills is scanning the active custom skills under ~/.hermes/skills/ and evaluating recurrence and reuse. This triage process ignores official, community, and already-archived skills to isolate merge candidates.

Workflow hygiene handles context cleanup by inspecting autonomously generated skill directories to find one-off fixes that waste context. It produces short, human-in-the-loop recommendations for archiving narrow skills to prevent directory degradation.

You cannot automatically archive stale Hermes-created skills because the review process is strictly human-in-the-loop. It only identifies and returns archive and merge candidates, requiring you to manually approve and execute any file modifications.

The skill file review process does not work with community or package-installed skills. It explicitly ignores non-agent and already-archived skills, applying its reuse-focused triage exclusively to active Hermes-created custom skills.

You need to run a skill management review during weekly maintenance when autonomously generated skills proliferate from one-off incidents. This prevents the custom directory from degrading into a cluttered archive that slows down future agent work.