NousResearch/hermes-agent

HTTP connection reuse for skills inspect performance

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #118965 on 22 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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A performance issue was identified where hermes skills inspect made many serial TLS connections without reuse, causing slow skill previews. Related work addresses reusing a single HTTP connection to reduce repeated handshake overhead.

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  • #118965 perf(skills): `hermes skills inspect` reuses one HTTP connection instead of a handshake per request (#118833, salvage #118840)

    merged to main

    files: hermes_cli/skills_hub.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_skills_hub.py, tools/skills_hub.py, tools/skills_hub_clawhub.py, tools/skills_hub_github.py, tools/skills_hub_models.py, tools/skills_hub_search.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 1

  • #118840 fix(skills): reuse HTTP connections during inspect · merged via another change → a82cbed, #118965
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#118833[Perf] hermes skills inspect makes ~29 serial TLS connections without connection reuse — 25-52s per skill preview
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22 Sep 2026

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