Rules Distill

This is a Hermes-native rules-distill workflow skill.

Why This Exists

rules-distill exists because a repeated lesson buried in traces, reviews, and skill text changes behaviour only once it is written down as a rule, and a rule written from one anecdote does the opposite: it extracts candidate rules from a corpus the user names, checks them against what is already written, and hands approved ones to the destination the user chose; the method is adapted from ECC's rules-distill without wholesale copying.

Do Not Use When

• The user wants a single workflow route regression; use omh-workflow-learning.
• The user wants durable factual project memory; use omh-memory-new, or omh-memory-sync to curate what Hermes already holds.
• The user already approved a concrete code/doc change; use the implementation workflow.
• The ask is writing or keeping current the file an agent reads at startup -- AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, a Cursor rule; use omh-agent-instructions, which updates only its marked region.
• The ask is shrinking a neural network's weights into a smaller student model; use omh-model-compression.

Examples

Good example: