Skill: Electric Sheep

A scheduled, unattended self-improvement loop for Hermes agents. Inspired by biological sleep-phase memory consolidation, it reviews recent performance, mines lessons into MemPalace, detects capability gaps, and either finds existing skills or authors new ones.

Stateless at invocation — all persistent state lives in MemPalace. Safe to call from hermes cron, a post-task hook, or any MCP trigger.

Critical safety rule: Never mine the raw ~/.hermes/sessions/ directory directly. It contains mixed file types (request_dump_*.json, cron transcripts, etc.) that cause segfaults, extreme slowness, and palace bloat. Always stage clean files first. See Phase 2 below.

When to Use This Skill