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Hermes ships an autonomous curator for its own skills and memory loop

Hermes Agent v0.12.0 added a background Curator that periodically grades, consolidates, and prunes the agent's skill library and writes audit reports. Its separate review process also decides after each turn what memories or skills to save or update, while being restricted to memory and skill tools with protections for pinned and bundled skills.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM62confidence 64/100

Why it moved the index

Magnitude 62: this is a concrete bounded self-maintenance loop in which an agent revises the reusable skills and memories that shape later work, making limited recursive workflow improvement more practical. Confidence 64: the signed release precisely documents the mechanism, schedule, reports, and restrictions, but it does not demonstrate open-ended capability gain and later issue reports showed operational risks around automated skill changes.

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 62 · confidence 64

    Adds the strongest directly shipped RSI-adjacent evidence found: a bounded, auditable agent loop that maintains its own reusable skills and memory.

    16 Aug 2026

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  1. DoomBench assesses “Hermes ships an autonomous curator for its own skills and memory loop” as evidence moving toward doom, with magnitude 62 and confidence 64 out of 100 in the autonomy and agency category.

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  3. DoomBench summarizes “Hermes ships an autonomous curator for its own skills and memory loop” as follows: Hermes Agent v0.12.0 added a background Curator that periodically grades, consolidates, and prunes the agent's skill library and...

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