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350 skills across 18 categories
Autonomous Cron Run Reporting: Silence vs. Signal
How scheduled agent jobs should decide what to deliver at the end of a run: return the [SILENT] marker as the entire response when nothing in the monitored domain changed, always report genuine state changes, failures, and cooldowns, and never fabricate results when a tool call or API fails.
Background Process Notification Discipline
When to pair a background terminal process with notify_on_complete, when to run it silent, and when (and only when) watch_patterns is the right signal tool in Hermes/OpenClaw.
Generated Script Integrity Verification After Writes
Verify tool-written scripts with a post-write lint: content redaction filters can silently corrupt secret-loading lines, and the write tool's echo display is not a reliable source of truth.
Reporting Partial Success and Incomplete Batches
A batch that processed most of its items is neither a success nor a failure, and a binary flag hides the difference. This skill covers partial-success reporting for agents: report the counts of succeeded, failed and skipped items, name the failures, retry only the items that failed, and never let a partially applied batch read as complete on a dashboard.
Server Readiness Verification Before Dependent Steps
Verify a freshly started server is ready before running tests or dependent steps against it: poll a health endpoint or watch for a startup-complete log signal instead of sleeping on a fixed timer.
Shared /tmp Collision Prevention in Concurrent Cron Sessions
How sibling Hermes/OpenClaw cron sessions running on the same host can silently overwrite each other's temporary scripts in shared /tmp, and the per-run unique filename pattern that prevents it. Covers spotting the 'modified by sibling subagent' write_file warning and the safe verify-then-run response.