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+# Skills lifecycle
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+The UI exposes All, Built-in, Approved, and Draft. Draft includes archived
+records so they remain inspectable and recoverable. Built-ins are not audited.
+Approved means published, passing, at the configured confidence threshold,
+and not marked unnecessary. Baseline speed measurements remain evidence, not
+an additional hidden UI approval gate.
+
+Automatic audits process at most eight eligible records at a time, oldest first.
+New records are eligible immediately; inconclusive checks retry after a day;
+failed repairs retry after a week. Passed, duplicate-skipped, and archived records
+are excluded. Existing daily Skills Audit tasks drive this queue. Their quiet
+window deferrals propagate to the scheduler rather than becoming task failures.
+Automatic runs use background model scheduling. Existing self-repair and teacher
+repair stages remain in place; failed candidates remain drafts.
+
+The skill index advertises short descriptions; the agent loads a relevant full
+procedure on demand and applies already-injected procedures directly. Extraction
+prefers verified discoveries and specific workarounds over routine tool usage.
+
+Reference reviewed: NousResearch/hermes-agent, MIT license, commit
+cfdbbb6e35010ace89fbe8243ee82fa4de143e10, cloned to
+/home/pewds/hermes-skills-reference. In particular tools/skills_tool.py and
+agent/prompt_builder.py use progressive disclosure and task-triggered procedure
+loading. These changes adapt that approach to Odysseus's existing registry;
+no Hermes implementation code was copied.