James' Growth Diary

May 26, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Curator Daemon: Managing the Birth, Aging, and Death of Hermes Agent Skills

The article dissects Hermes' Curator daemon—a lightweight forked agent that runs asynchronously after each dialogue to combat skill‑library entropy by identifying stale, redundant, or obsolete skills, applying a three‑state lifecycle, LLM‑driven merge decisions, provenance‑based archiving, and offering debugging tips.