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Hermes
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Summary
An AI agent harness built entirely around skills-as-memory — it not only uses skills but creates and curates them autonomously. Central to konstantin's talk; also referenced by eugene among his tools.
Current Understanding
Hermes is the concrete demonstration of "skills as memory": it auto-creates a skill when a task costs >5 tool calls, and runs a two-layer curator — pruning skills unused for 30 days (deactivate) / 90 days (archive) and consolidating small skills weekly so their short-descriptions don't eat context. Konstantin reports it grew from 56 → 100 skills and kept working — impossible with classic tools.
Evidence
- Konstantin's talk: auto-improvement mechanism, curator, Telegram access to shared git skills — 2026-07-14-skills-based-on-git.
- Eugene lists it among his harness tools ("open clock, Hermes, paperclip") — 2026-07-14-sebastian-eugene-interview.
Related Pages
- Entity: konstantin, eugene
- Concepts: skills-as-memory, harness, agentic-loops, context-as-scarce-resource
- Related tools: claude-code, OpenClaude, Codex CLI
Contradictions / Uncertainty
- The curator thresholds are Hermes-specific heuristics, not validated standards. Status: tentative.
Next Questions
- How do Hermes' auto-consolidation decisions avoid merging skills that should stay distinct?