hermes - 💡(How to fix) Fix [Feature]: Bundled skills whitelist option

Problem or Use Case

I run my agent with a local model and it's quite context constrained. Therefore i disabled almost all skills to save context. Currently skills are enabled/disabled via blacklist.

On updates newly added bundled skills are automagically seeded into agents skills dir, and since they aren't blacklisted they are enabled by default. So my updates go: update -> start session -> notice random new skills -> close session -> list and disable new skills -> start session

Ultimately the desired change is not having skills just appear.

Proposed Solution

bundled_whitelist config option (off by default, so existing users are unaffected) that, when set, uses skills.bundled_enabled: [] to filter bundled skills in addition to the skills.disabled pass.

skills:
  bundled_whitelist: true
  bundled_enabled:
    - airtable
    - apple-notes
  disabled:
    - unwanted-user-skill

bundled_whitelist: false (default) — no filtering, existing behavior. bundled_whitelist: true with an empty list — all bundled skills blocked. bundled_whitelist: true with entries — filters to those

User/agent skills are unaffected by the whitelist and remain manageable via disabled as usual.

Alternatives Considered

skills.new_bundled_default: disabled - config option to automatically add newly added bundled skills to the disabled list

The whitelist approach is better for users who only use a subset of bundled skills because a blacklist grows with every update while a whitelist stays stable.

Feature Type

Configuration option

Scope

None

Contribution

• I'd like to implement this myself and submit a PR

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