# Curator run — 2026-07-14T11:26:23.421646+00:00

Model: `deepseek-v4-pro` via `deepseek`  ·  Duration: 3m 13s  ·  Agent-created skills: 59 → 58 (-1)

## Auto-transitions (pure, no LLM)

- checked: 59
- marked stale: 0
- archived (no LLM, pure time-based staleness): 0
- reactivated: 0

## LLM consolidation pass

- tool calls: **33** (by name: skill_manage=2, skill_view=31)
- consolidated into umbrellas: **1**
- pruned (archived for staleness): **0**
- new skills this run: **0**
- state transitions (active ↔ stale ↔ archived): **0**

### Consolidated into umbrella skills (1)

_These skills were **absorbed into another skill** during this run — their content still lives, just under a different name. The original directory was moved to `~/.hermes/skills/.archive/` for safety and can be restored via `hermes curator restore <name>` if the consolidation was wrong._

- `sketch` → merged into `claude-design` — sketch's throwaway variant exploration workflow is a subset of claude-design's design process; claude-design already had variation rules and sketch explicitly deferred to claude-design for polished artifacts

## LLM final summary

I've completed my consolidation pass. Here's my analysis:

## Consolidation Pass Summary

**Clusters examined:**
- **Creative/Design**: `claude-design` + `sketch` + `popular-web-designs` — absorbed `sketch` into `claude-design` 
- **ascii**: `ascii-art` + `ascii-video` — different scope (static tools vs video production pipeline), kept both
- **Diagrams**: `architecture-diagram` + `excalidraw` — different mediums (SVG vs hand-drawn JSON), kept both
- **Music**: `heartmula` + `songwriting-and-ai-music` — tool-specific vs creative craft, kept both
- **Software methodology**: `plan` + `spike` + `systematic-debugging` + `test-driven-development` + `requesting-code-review` — distinct phases, kept all
- **Research**: `arxiv` + `research-paper-writing` + `llm-wiki` — discovery vs pipeline vs knowledge management, kept all
- **Chinese ecosystem**: 5 skills across different platforms (CMS, RSS, WeCom, 小红书, cloud deploy), kept all
- **ML/AI tools**: 8 distinct frameworks/tools, kept all

**Actions taken:**
1. **Patched** `claude-design` SKILL.md to add a comprehensive "Throwaway Variant Exploration" section (absorbing sketch's intake → variants → head-to-head → frontier mode methodology)
2. **Archived** `sketch` with `absorbed_into=claude-design`

This is a light but correct pass. The skill collection is genuinely well-organized with mostly class-level skills. The one clear overlap was sketch being a subset of claude-design's variant exploration phase — claude-design even had a "Variation Rules" section already, and sketch itself said "When NOT to use: polished one-off → claude-design."

## Structured summary (required)
```yaml
consolidations:
  - from: sketch
    into: claude-design
    reason: sketch's throwaway variant exploration workflow is a subset of claude-design's design process; claude-design already had variation rules and sketch explicitly deferred to claude-design for polished artifacts
prunings: []
```

## Recovery

- Restore an archived skill: `hermes curator restore <name>`
- All archives live under `~/.hermes/skills/.archive/` and are recoverable by `mv`
- See `run.json` in this directory for the full machine-readable record.