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Skill lifecycle integrity during context compression

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 29300 · skills

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2 open items. Fix merged in #70275. Check it covers your case.

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A fix was merged to main in PR #70275. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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These members address how loaded skills are tracked, deduplicated, and protected from being incorrectly pruned or invalidated during context compression events. The work spans detection markers, registry-based deduplication, volatile/single-turn skill loading, and guarding against corrupted skill availability state.

Open issues2

  • Issue#29300feat: dedupe loaded skills via active skill context registry
  • Issue#36656Feature Request: Volatile skills — load content for one turn only

Open PRs0

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Fixes on record

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  • #70275 fix(compression): ghost-skill defense — [SKILL_PRUNED] markers, protected prune, deterministic survival (salvage #44166)

    merged to main

    files: agent/context_compressor.py, agent/prompt_builder.py, contributors/emails/[redacted:email], tests/agent/test_ghost_skill_pruning.py

Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#32106Invalid skill availability state after context compression can corrupt active task execution
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Merged PRs
#70275
Closed issues
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Fix link checked
23 Jul 2026

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