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Hermes agent help guidance hardcoding and control issues

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 20721 · agent

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4 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

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2open issues
2open PRs
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Yes. 6 related items grouped here, 0 issues already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. 2 PRs closed without merging; see the attempts below.
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Still open
2 issues and 2 PRs.

These issues and fixes concern HERMES_AGENT_HELP_GUIDANCE being unconditionally injected into the system prompt, causing excessive skill re-reads and lacking a proper way to disable or configure it via environment variable. The work involves relaxing the guidance strictness and honoring documented override mechanisms.

Open issues2

  • Issue#20721[Bug]: Hermes-agent skill prompting is too strict and causes excessive re-reads of the skill
  • Issue#24438HERMES_AGENT_HELP_GUIDANCE is unconditionally hardcoded into system prompt with no way to disable it

Open PRs2

  • PR#39784fix(agent): relax repeated hermes-agent skill loading guidance (#20721)
  • PR#106923fix(agent): honor documented HERMES_AGENT_HELP_GUIDANCE env append

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: stale or abandoned 1 · superseded by another PR 1

  • #24442 fix(prompt): gate skill_view help guidance on tool + honor documented env var (#24438) · stale or abandoned
  • #24550 fix(prompt_builder): make HERMES_AGENT_HELP_GUIDANCE respect env var override · superseded by another PR → #24442, #24438
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