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Bot chat performance: capability epoch and skill indexing fixes

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 117788 · skills

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #118962. Check it covers your case.

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These issues and pull requests address performance problems where archived skills incorrectly influenced the capability epoch, causing unnecessary system prompt rebuilds, and optimize skill indexing using iter_skill_index_files. Additional improvements include reducing SQLite connections and deduplicating memory-context bullets.

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  • #118962 perf: one SQLite connection per delivered reply, memory-context bullets stated once, capability epoch ignores archived skills (salvage #117399, #117789, #117951)

    merged to main

    files: agent/memory_manager.py, gateway/delivery_ledger.py, tests/agent/test_memory_context_dedupe.py, tests/gateway/test_delivery_ledger.py, tests/gateway/test_delivery_ledger_single_connection.py, tests/tools/test_capability_fingerprint_skill_scope.py, tools/bot_mode_probe.py

3 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 1 · merged via another change 1 · other 1

  • #117789 perf(bot-mode): the capability epoch counts the skills the model can invoke, not archived ones · done elsewhere → 28bd8cc, 6df4571, eccc9ab, 1238dbc, #118962
  • #117912 perf: use iter_skill_index_files in capability_fingerprint · merged via another change → #117789, #117788
  • #119577 perf: use iter_skill_index_files in capability_fingerprint (closes #117788) · other → #117788
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#117788[Perf]: the capability epoch counts archived skills, so archiving one rebuilds every Bot Chat's system prompt
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22 Sep 2026

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