# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Curator skill consolidation loop and safety fixes

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #44771: Curator LLM review enters multi-hour loop on symlinked skill clusters, consuming 91M input tokens

A bug caused the curator's LLM review to enter runaway loops on symlinked skill clusters, consuming excessive tokens. Several fixes address iteration caps, deduplication of symlinked skills, and safer handling of unverified skill deletions, with consolidation made opt-in.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Open related issues

- #44771: Curator LLM review enters multi-hour loop on symlinked skill clusters, consuming 91M input tokens

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#44887: fix(curator): cap review iterations and exclude external symlinked skills (#44771)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#44771`
- **#44923: fix(curator): deduplicate symlinked skills and cap iteration limit (#44771)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `skills`