fix(hermes): restore gateway core to upstream, clear conformance gate

.dockerignore

@@ -63,3 +63,42 @@ data/
 # Compose/profile runtime state (bind-mounted; avoid ownership/secret issues)
 hermes-config/
 runtime/
+
+# ---------- Not needed inside the Docker image ----------
+
+# Desktop app source (Tauri/Electron); never installed in the container
+apps/
+
+# Test suite — not shipped in production images
+tests/
+
+# Documentation site (Docusaurus) and supplementary docs
+website/
+docs/
+
+# Assets only used by the GitHub README
+assets/
+infographic/
+
+# Plugin-level docs (hermes-achievements ships docs/ but the runtime doesn't read them)
+plugins/hermes-achievements/docs/
+
+# Nix / Homebrew / AUR packaging metadata — irrelevant to Docker
+nix/
+flake.nix
+flake.lock
+packaging/
+
+# Design and planning documents
+plans/
+.plans/
+
+# ACP registry manifest (icon + agent.json) — not consumed at runtime
+acp_registry/
+
+# Repo-level dotfiles that are git-only or dev-tooling config
+.env.example
+.envrc
+.gitattributes
+.hadolint.yaml
+.mailmap

.github/workflows/contributor-check.yml

@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
 name: Contributor Attribution Check
 
 on:
-  pull_request:
-    branches: [main]
   # No paths filter — the job must always run so the required check
   # reports a status (path-gated workflows leave checks "pending" forever
   # when no matching files change, which blocks merge).
-
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main]
 permissions:
   contents: read
 

.github/workflows/deploy-site.yml

@@ -11,8 +11,20 @@ on:
       - 'optional-skills/**'
       - '.github/workflows/deploy-site.yml'
   workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      skills_index_run_id:
+        description: 'Optional Build Skills Index run ID whose skills-index artifact should be deployed'
+        required: false
+        type: string
+      rebuild_skills_index:
+        description: 'Force a fresh multi-source crawl instead of reusing the latest healthy index'
+        required: false
+        default: false
+        type: boolean
 
 permissions:
+  contents: read
+  actions: read
   pages: write
   id-token: write
 
@@ -44,7 +56,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - uses: actions/setup-node@49933ea5288caeca8642d1e84afbd3f7d6820020  # v4
         with:
-          node-version: 20
+          node-version: 22
           cache: npm
           cache-dependency-path: website/package-lock.json
 
@@ -55,26 +67,81 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install PyYAML for skill extraction
         run: pip install pyyaml==6.0.2 httpx==0.28.1
 
-      - name: Build skills index (unified multi-source catalog)
+      - name: Prepare skills index (unified multi-source catalog)
         env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+          SKILLS_INDEX_RUN_ID: ${{ github.event.inputs.skills_index_run_id || '' }}
+          REBUILD_SKILLS_INDEX: ${{ github.event.inputs.rebuild_skills_index || 'false' }}
         run: |
-          # Rebuild the unified catalog. The file is gitignored, so a fresh
-          # checkout starts without it and we want the freshest crawl in
-          # every deploy.
+          # The unified external catalog is expensive to crawl and can burn
+          # through the repository installation's GitHub API quota when several
+          # docs deploys land close together.  Normal docs deploys therefore
+          # reuse the latest healthy catalog: first the artifact from a
+          # scheduled skills-index run, then the currently live index.  Only a
+          # manual force rebuild does a fresh crawl here.
           #
-          # This MUST be fatal. build_skills_index.py runs a health check and
-          # exits non-zero WITHOUT writing the output file when a source
-          # collapses (e.g. a GitHub API rate limit zeroes the github /
-          # claude-marketplace / well-known taps all at once). Letting the
-          # deploy continue would either (a) ship a degenerate index missing
-          # whole hubs — the June 2026 regression where OpenAI/Anthropic/
-          # HuggingFace/NVIDIA tabs vanished — or (b) fall through to a
-          # local-only catalog. Failing here keeps the last good deployment
-          # live (GitHub Pages serves the previous build) instead of
-          # publishing a broken catalog. Re-run the workflow once the
-          # transient rate limit clears.
+          # If we do crawl, the build remains fatal. build_skills_index.py runs
+          # the health check BEFORE writing and exits non-zero on source
+          # collapse, keeping the last good Pages deployment live instead of
+          # publishing a degenerate catalog.
+          set -euo pipefail
+          INDEX_PATH="website/static/api/skills-index.json"
+          mkdir -p "$(dirname "$INDEX_PATH")"
+
+          validate_index() {
+            python3 - "$INDEX_PATH" <<'PY'
+          import json
+          import sys
+          from pathlib import Path
+
+          path = Path(sys.argv[1])
+          try:
+              data = json.loads(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+          except Exception as exc:
+              print(f"invalid skills index JSON: {exc}", file=sys.stderr)
+              sys.exit(1)
+          skills = data.get("skills")
+          if not isinstance(skills, list) or len(skills) < 1500:
+              count = len(skills) if isinstance(skills, list) else "missing"
+              print(f"skills index too small: {count}", file=sys.stderr)
+              sys.exit(1)
+          print(f"skills index ready: {len(skills)} skills")
+          PY
+          }
+
+          if [ "$REBUILD_SKILLS_INDEX" = "true" ]; then
+            python3 scripts/build_skills_index.py
+            validate_index
+            exit 0
+          fi
+
+          if [ -n "$SKILLS_INDEX_RUN_ID" ]; then
+            tmpdir="$(mktemp -d)"
+            echo "Downloading skills-index artifact from run $SKILLS_INDEX_RUN_ID"
+            if gh run download "$SKILLS_INDEX_RUN_ID" --name skills-index --dir "$tmpdir"; then
+              candidate="$(find "$tmpdir" -name skills-index.json -type f | head -n 1 || true)"
+              if [ -n "$candidate" ]; then
+                cp "$candidate" "$INDEX_PATH"
+                if validate_index; then
+                  exit 0
+                fi
+              fi
+            fi
+            echo "::warning::Could not use skills-index artifact from run $SKILLS_INDEX_RUN_ID; trying live index"
+          fi
+
+          echo "Downloading currently live skills index"
+          if curl -fsSL --retry 3 --retry-delay 5 \
+            "https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/api/skills-index.json" \
+            -o "$INDEX_PATH" && validate_index; then
+            exit 0
+          fi
+
+          echo "::warning::Live skills index unavailable or unhealthy; falling back to a fresh crawl"
+          rm -f "$INDEX_PATH"
           python3 scripts/build_skills_index.py
+          validate_index
 
       - name: Extract skill metadata for dashboard
         run: python3 website/scripts/extract-skills.py

.github/workflows/docker-lint.yml

@@ -18,13 +18,12 @@ on:
       - docker/**
       - .hadolint.yaml
       - .github/workflows/docker-lint.yml
+
+  # No paths filter — the job must always run so the required check
+  # reports a status (path-gated workflows leave checks "pending" forever
+  # when no matching files change, which blocks merge).
   pull_request:
     branches: [main]
-    paths:
-      - Dockerfile
-      - docker/**
-      - .hadolint.yaml
-      - .github/workflows/docker-lint.yml
 
 permissions:
   contents: read

.github/workflows/docker-publish.yml

@@ -11,16 +11,13 @@ on:
       - 'docker/**'
       - '.github/workflows/docker-publish.yml'
       - '.github/actions/hermes-smoke-test/**'
+
+  # No paths filter — the job must always run so the required check
+  # reports a status (path-gated workflows leave checks "pending" forever
+  # when no matching files change, which blocks merge).
   pull_request:
     branches: [main]
-    paths:
-      - '**/*.py'
-      - 'pyproject.toml'
-      - 'uv.lock'
-      - 'Dockerfile'
-      - 'docker/**'
-      - '.github/workflows/docker-publish.yml'
-      - '.github/actions/hermes-smoke-test/**'
+
   release:
     types: [published]
 
@@ -90,7 +87,7 @@ jobs:
       # (see `_SKIP_PARTS` in scripts/run_tests_parallel.py) because each
       # shard would otherwise reach the session-scoped ``built_image``
       # fixture in ``tests/docker/conftest.py`` and start a 3-7min
-      # ``docker build`` under a 180s pytest-timeout cap — guaranteed to
+      # ``docker build`` — guaranteed to
       # die in fixture setup.
       #
       # Piggybacking here avoids a second image build: the smoke test
@@ -114,7 +111,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           uv venv .venv --python 3.11
           source .venv/bin/activate
-          # ``dev`` extra pulls in pytest, pytest-asyncio, pytest-timeout —
+          # ``dev`` extra pulls in pytest, pytest-asyncio —
           # everything tests/docker/ needs.  We deliberately avoid ``all``
           # here because the docker tests only drive the container via
           # subprocess and don't import hermes_agent's optional deps.

.github/workflows/docs-site-checks.yml

@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 name: Docs Site Checks
 
 on:
+  # No paths filter — the job must always run so the required check
+  # reports a status (path-gated workflows leave checks "pending" forever
+  # when no matching files change, which blocks merge).
   pull_request:
-    paths:
-      - 'website/**'
-      - '.github/workflows/docs-site-checks.yml'
+    branches: [main]
+
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 permissions:
@@ -14,21 +16,21 @@ jobs:
   docs-site-checks:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd  # v6.0.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
 
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@49933ea5288caeca8642d1e84afbd3f7d6820020  # v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@49933ea5288caeca8642d1e84afbd3f7d6820020 # v4
         with:
-          node-version: 20
+          node-version: 22
           cache: npm
           cache-dependency-path: website/package-lock.json
 
       - name: Install website dependencies
         run: npm ci
         working-directory: website
 
-      - uses: actions/setup-python@a309ff8b426b58ec0e2a45f0f869d46889d02405  # v6.2.0
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@a309ff8b426b58ec0e2a45f0f869d46889d02405 # v6.2.0
         with:
-          python-version: '3.11'
+          python-version: "3.11"
 
       - name: Install ascii-guard
         run: python -m pip install ascii-guard==2.3.0 pyyaml==6.0.3

.github/workflows/history-check.yml

@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ name: History Check
 # the PR head and main to be non-empty.
 
 on:
+  # No paths filter — the job must always run so the required check
+  # reports a status (path-gated workflows leave checks "pending" forever
+  # when no matching files change, which blocks merge).
   pull_request:
     branches: [main]
 
@@ -24,9 +27,9 @@ jobs:
   check-common-ancestor:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd  # v6.0.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
         with:
-          fetch-depth: 0  # full history both sides for merge-base
+          fetch-depth: 0 # full history both sides for merge-base
 
       - name: Reject PRs with no common ancestor on main
         run: |

.github/workflows/lint.yml

@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@ on:
       - "**/*.md"
       - "docs/**"
       - "website/**"
+
+  # No paths filter — the job must always run so the required check
+  # reports a status (path-gated workflows leave checks "pending" forever
+  # when no matching files change, which blocks merge).
   pull_request:
     branches: [main]
-    paths-ignore:
-      - "**/*.md"
-      - "docs/**"
-      - "website/**"
 
 permissions:
   contents: read
@@ -154,7 +154,6 @@ jobs:
               });
             }
 
-
   ruff-blocking:
     # Enforce the rules in pyproject.toml [tool.ruff.lint.select]. Currently
     # PLW1514 (unspecified-encoding) — catches bare ``open()`` /