stephenschoettler/hermes-lcm v0.4.0

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What's New

Search Ranking Polish (#23 — @Tosko4)

• Directness-based reranking for precise queries — direct hits surface over repetition spam
• Phrase spam penalization and unmatched quote fallback handling
• Widened candidate fetching for precise queries
• Role bias rework: user > assistant > tool
• Future timestamp clamping in hybrid sort

Lifecycle Checkpoint Substrate (#24 — @Tosko4)

• Durable lifecycle state store for session/conversation binding
• Frontier markers persist across rollover/rebind boundaries
• Lifecycle metadata exposed in engine status

Custom Summary Instructions & Pre-Compaction Extraction (#21 — @stephenschoettler)

• LCM_CUSTOM_INSTRUCTIONS — inject operator-configurable instructions into summarization prompts
• LCM_EXTRACTION_ENABLED — extract decisions/commitments to daily note files before compaction

Deferred Maintenance Debt Catch-Up (#25 — @Tosko4)

• Persist raw-backlog maintenance debt in lifecycle state
• Bounded cross-turn catch-up passes to reduce debt over time
• Debt state surfaced in status output

Operator Remediation Flows (#26 — @Tosko4)

• /lcm doctor now separates observations from recommended actions
• New doctor clean apply — backup-first cleanup for safe pattern-matched candidates
• Shared backup logic between /lcm backup and cleanup apply

Stats

• ~5,000 lines of Python (up from ~3,800)
• 192 tests (up from 130)
• Schema version: 4

Update

```bash
cd ~/.hermes/hermes-agent/plugins/context_engine/lcm && git pull
```
Restart Hermes after updating.