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hermes - 💡(How to fix) Fix Skills hub creates empty category directories when no skills installed [1 pull requests]

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Hermes Agent v0.15.0 on WSL2

After running hermes skills sync, the hub index creates directory entries for all available categories (apple, data-science, email, gaming, gifs, github, etc.) even when the user has never installed any skills under those categories.

Result: 16 out of 22 categories in skills/ are empty directories with only a DESCRIPTION.md inside.

Impact:

  • skills_list shows 22 categories, 16 have zero skills
  • Navigation overhead — have to filter through empty categories every time

Suggested fix (either):

  1. Only create category directories when a skill is first installed under that category
  2. Add a has_skills field to category metadata so listings can filter out empty ones

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