# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Curator ledger file unbounded growth and size fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug was identified where the curator ledger file grows without bound, accumulating large amounts of audit and skill data per profile. Several fixes address this by adding deduplication, trimming oldest entries, and bounding ledger size.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #118964. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #118964 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-118964`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.67`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #118674: \[Bug\] Curator ledger .curator_ledger.jsonl grows unboundedly (5MB per profile in 5 weeks, full-file manifests per entry)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#118964: fix: the curator skill ledger and the computer-use accessibility walk are size-bounded (#118674, salvage #118696, #116512)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/125409643+vgarlu@users.noreply.github.com`, `hermes_cli/config_defaults.py`, `tests/tools/test_computer_use_ax_walk_bound.py`, `tests/tools/test_skill_ledger.py`, `tests/tools/test_skill_ledger_delta.py`, `tools/computer_use/backend.py`, `tools/computer_use/cua_backend.py`, `tools/computer_use/cua_backend_capture.py`, `tools/computer_use/tool.py`, `tools/skill_ledger.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/curator.md`
- **#118690: fix(curator): stop profiles from accumulating audit ledger data**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `92dd332192`, `#118964`
- **#118696: fix(curator): keep the skill ledger size-bounded (dedup rewrite + oldest-entry trim)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `92dd332192`, `#118964`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #118964 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-22`.