CLAIM 1 / Hermes Agent
Self-improving agent — learns skills from experience and applies them autonomously
not implemented
Observed
The loop is broken at both ends: the LLM ignores `skill_view()` auto-invocation even when a relevant skill exists (#4589); `skills_guard` treats its "ask" verdict as a hard block, silently rejecting agent-created skills (#13686); and background skill creation can deadlock the entire gateway (#10138). Skills work — manually, invoked by name, by a human.
- UPDATE 2026-06-28(v0.17.0): #13686 (skills_guard) closed not-planned/implemented-on-main and #10138 (gateway deadlock) closed via PR #39737; the core loop bug #4589 (skill_view auto-invocation) remains open — the self-improvement loop still has no completion path.
- UPDATE 2026-07-09(v0.18.2): #4589 re-confirmed OPEN (last activity 2026-06-30); v0.18.x shipped `/learn` and `/journey` as *manual* skill distillation/timeline surfaces, not auto-invocation — falsification criterion for autonomous skill application still not met.