# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Curator built-in skill clock anchoring behavior

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items relate to how the curator anchors the clock for built-in skills that were seeded before the first curator run, and the staleness marking that results. The work involves identifying and fixing the re-anchoring logic for never-used built-in skills.

## 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 #116008. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #116008 (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-116008`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #79295: curator: built-in skills seeded before first curator run are all marked stale

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#116008: Curator storage follow-through: snapshots skip venvs, blob GC, built-in clock anchored at first sight (#107539, #79295)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/curator.py`, `agent/curator_backup.py`, `hermes_cli/curator.py`, `tests/agent/test_curator.py`, `tests/agent/test_curator_backup.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server_idle_proof.py`, `tests/tools/test_skill_ledger.py`, `tests/tools/test_skill_ledger_delta.py`, `tools/skill_ledger.py`, `tools/skill_usage.py`
- **#79311: fix(curator): re-anchor never-used built-in skill clock on first curator run**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `f64ac2fbdc3`, `#116008`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #116008 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-19`.
- Subsystem: `skills`