What Happened I opened HermesAgent to run a podcast production workflow I'd been using for months. Everything was broken. Inside ~/.hermes/skills/media/ , the tech-podcast directory was gone. So were six other media Skills I'd built independently. The Agent had merged them all into a single directory called media-content-automation . I opened the merged result. The six-step production pipeline was gone. The Azure TTS parameters were gone. The character settings for the show's two hosts, Qizai and Yiyi, were gone. The real-time AI news tracking logic was gone. What remained were generic descriptions worse than any of the individual Skills they replaced. The Agent used rm -rf . Nothing in the recycle bin. I recovered the originals only because of a hidden backup at .curator_backups/ . Afterward, the Agent explained: "I have confirmed that media-content-automation now fully contains all the optimized logic from your previous tech-podcast configuration.…