feat(curator): background skill maintenance (issue #7816)

Adds the Curator — an auxiliary-model background task that periodically
reviews AGENT-CREATED skills and keeps the collection tidy: tracks usage,
transitions unused skills through active → stale → archived, and spawns
a forked AIAgent to consolidate overlaps and patch drift.

Default: enabled, inactivity-triggered (no cron daemon). Runs on CLI
startup and gateway boot when the last run is older than interval_hours
(default 24) AND the agent has been idle for min_idle_hours (default 2).

Invariants (all load-bearing):
- Never touches bundled or hub-installed skills (.bundled_manifest +
  .hub/lock.json double-filter)
- Never auto-deletes — archive only. Archives are recoverable
  via `hermes curator restore <skill>`
- Pinned skills bypass all auto-transitions
- Uses the aux client; never touches the main session's prompt cache

New files:
- tools/skill_usage.py — sidecar .usage.json telemetry, atomic writes,
  provenance filter
- agent/curator.py — orchestrator: config, idle gating, state-machine
  transitions (pure, no LLM), forked-agent review prompt
- hermes_cli/curator.py — `hermes curator {status,run,pause,resume,
  pin,unpin,restore}` subcommand
- tests/tools/test_skill_usage.py — 29 tests
- tests/agent/test_curator.py — 25 tests

Modified files (surgical patches):
- tools/skills_tool.py — bump view_count on successful skill_view
- tools/skill_manager_tool.py — bump patch_count on skill_manage
  patch/edit/write_file/remove_file; forget record on delete
- hermes_cli/config.py — add curator: section to DEFAULT_CONFIG
- hermes_cli/commands.py — add /curator CommandDef with subcommands
- hermes_cli/main.py — register `hermes curator` subparser via
  register_cli() from hermes_cli.curator
- cli.py — /curator slash-command dispatch + startup hook
- gateway/run.py — gateway-boot hook (mirrors CLI)

Validation:
- 54 new tests across skill_usage + curator, all passing in 3s
- 346 tests across all touched files' neighbors green
- 2783 tests across hermes_cli/ + gateway/test_run_progress_topics.py green
- CLI smoke: `hermes curator status/pause/resume` work end-to-end

Companion to PR #16026 (class-first skill review prompt) — together
they form a loop: the review prompt stops near-duplicate skill creation
at the source, and the curator prunes/consolidates what still accumulates.

Refs #7816.
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@@ -915,6 +915,35 @@ DEFAULT_CONFIG = {
"guard_agent_created": False,
},
# Curator — background skill maintenance.
#
# Periodically reviews AGENT-CREATED skills (never bundled or
# hub-installed) and keeps the collection tidy: marks long-unused skills
# as stale, archives genuinely obsolete ones (archive only, never
# deletes), and spawns a forked aux-model agent to consolidate overlaps
# and patch drift. Runs inactivity-triggered from session start — no
# cron daemon.
#
# See `hermes curator status` for the last run summary.
"curator": {
"enabled": True,
# How long to wait between curator runs (hours).
"interval_hours": 24,
# Only run when the agent has been idle at least this long (hours).
"min_idle_hours": 2,
# Mark a skill as "stale" after this many days without use.
"stale_after_days": 30,
# Archive a skill (move to skills/.archive/) after this many days
# without use. Archived skills are recoverable — no auto-deletion.
"archive_after_days": 90,
# Optional per-task override for the curator's aux model. Leave null
# to use Hermes' main auxiliary client resolution.
"auxiliary": {
"provider": None,
"model": None,
},
},
# Honcho AI-native memory -- reads ~/.honcho/config.json as single source of truth.
# This section is only needed for hermes-specific overrides; everything else
# (apiKey, workspace, peerName, sessions, enabled) comes from the global config.