A 55-second clip from Peter Yang’s interview with Karan Malhotra (Nous Research co-founder) — the answer to “what if my agent writes too much slop into its own skills?”
- Hermes builds its own skills and stores its own memories from conversations — the paranoid failure mode is it writing slop until the whole system turns to slop
- Hermes Curator runs inside the agent on cron, looks at skills and memories, and asks: “Where can I make efficiencies? Where is there slop here?”
- The default generic curator works well enough that users don’t suffer rot
- Because it’s modular and open source, you can say: “Show me the curator. Show me your criteria for slop. Here’s my guidelines” — and Hermes modifies the curator loop itself
“Even the self-improvement and the management is happening your designated way.”