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Hermes agent help guidance hardcoding and control issues

Cluster 24438 · agent. Data as of

2 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

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1open issue
1open PR
4items grouped
Known?
Yes. 4 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.
Tracker
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Still open
1 issue and 1 PR.

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 issues1

  • Issue#24438HERMES_AGENT_HELP_GUIDANCE is unconditionally hardcoded into system prompt with no way to disable it

Open PRs1

  • 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From the close comments: stale or abandoned 1 · superseded by another PR 1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  • #24550 fix(prompt_builder): make HERMES_AGENT_HELP_GUIDANCE respect env var override · superseded by another PR → #24442, #24438
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  • Pairwise link density 0.50: the share of item 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.

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