# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Curator purge TTL bug fix for archived skills

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug was identified where the Hermes curator purged archived skills based on their last-edit mtime rather than their archival time, causing recently archived skills to be purged immediately. The members address this by aging archived skills from the time of archival so the TTL is honored correctly.

## 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 #124218. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #124218 (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-124218`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #123521: \[Bug\]: hermes curator purge ages archives by the skill's last-edit mtime, so skills archived today are purged immediately

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#124218: fix(curator): age archived skills from archival time so purge honors the TTL**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/curator.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_curator_archive_prune.py`, `tools/skill_usage.py`
- **#123522: fix(curator): age archived skills from archival time so purge honors the TTL**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#124218`, `#123521`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #124218 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-26`.