hermes - 💡(How to fix) Fix Feature Request: Show active/loaded skills for better transparency and debugging [1 participants]

It would be useful to have an official way to view which skills are currently active or loaded in a session.

For example:

- /skills active
- adding loaded skills to /status
- showing active skills in the TUI status/sidebar
- logging skill load events clearly when verbose mode is enabled

Motivation

Skills affect the agent's behavior and prompt/context usage. However, it is currently difficult for users to confirm which skills are loaded for the current session.

This makes it harder to:

- debug unexpected agent behavior
- understand why a specific instruction or workflow is being followed
- optimize token/context usage
- reproduce a session setup
- confirm that task-specific profiles are not loading unnecessary skills

This is especially relevant for users who use multiple profiles or task-specific skill sets.

Proposed Solution

Add a lightweight CLI/TUI-visible view of the currently loaded skills.

Possible options:

1. Add /skills active
2. Include loaded skills in /status
3. Show loaded skills in the TUI status/sidebar
4. Emit explicit skill load events in verbose mode

Alternatives Considered

Currently, users can list installed skills with hermes skills list, but that does not show which skills are active in the current session.

Verbose mode can help with general debugging, but it does not provide a concise current-state view of loaded skills.