# NousResearch/hermes-agent · HTTP connection reuse for skills inspect performance

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

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.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #118965. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #118965 (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-118965`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #118833: \[Perf\] hermes skills inspect makes ~29 serial TLS connections without connection reuse — 25-52s per skill preview

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#118965: perf(skills): \`hermes skills inspect\` reuses one HTTP connection instead of a handshake per request (#118833, salvage #118840)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - 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`
- **#118840: fix(skills): reuse HTTP connections during inspect**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `a82cbed2ff`, `#118965`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #118965 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-22`.