Merge branch 'main' of github.com:NousResearch/hermes-agent into bb/gui

website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md

@@ -1167,6 +1167,20 @@ display:
   show_cost: false        # Show estimated $ cost in the CLI status bar
   tool_preview_length: 0  # Max chars for tool call previews (0 = no limit, show full paths/commands)
   runtime_metadata_footer: false  # Gateway: append a runtime-context footer to final replies
+  language: en            # UI language for static messages (approval prompts, some gateway replies). en | zh | ja | de | es
+```
+
+### UI language for static messages
+
+The `display.language` setting translates a small set of static user-facing messages — the CLI approval prompt, a handful of gateway slash-command replies (e.g. restart-drain notices, "approval expired", "goal cleared"). It does **not** translate agent responses, log lines, tool output, error tracebacks, or slash-command descriptions — those stay in English. If you want the agent itself to reply in another language, just tell it in your prompt or system message.
+
+Supported values: `en` (default), `zh` (Simplified Chinese), `ja` (Japanese), `de` (German), `es` (Spanish). Unknown values fall back to English.
+
+You can also set this per-session with the `HERMES_LANGUAGE` env var, which overrides the config value.
+
+```yaml
+display:
+  language: zh   # CLI approval prompts appear in Chinese
 ```
 
 | Mode | What you see |

website/docs/user-guide/features/curator.md

@@ -157,10 +157,10 @@ If you want to protect a specific skill from ever being touched — for example
 
 ## Pinning a skill
 
-Pinning is a hard fence against both automated and agent-driven changes. Once a skill is pinned:
+Pinning protects a skill from deletion — both the curator's automated archive passes and the agent's `skill_manage(action="delete")` tool call. Once a skill is pinned:
 
 - The **curator** skips it during auto-transitions (`active → stale → archived`), and its LLM review pass is instructed to leave it alone.
-- The **agent's `skill_manage` tool** refuses every write action on it. Calls to `edit`, `patch`, `delete`, `write_file`, and `remove_file` return a refusal that tells the model to ask the user to run `hermes curator unpin <name>`. This prevents the agent from silently rewriting a skill mid-conversation.
+- The **agent's `skill_manage` tool** refuses `delete` on it, pointing the user at `hermes curator unpin <name>`. Patches and edits still go through, so the agent can improve a pinned skill's content as pitfalls come up without a pin/unpin/re-pin dance.
 
 Pin and unpin with:
 
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ The flag is stored as `"pinned": true` on the skill's entry in `~/.hermes/skills
 
 Only **agent-created** skills can be pinned — bundled and hub-installed skills are never subject to curator mutation in the first place, and `hermes curator pin` will refuse with an explanatory message if you try.
 
-If you need to update a pinned skill yourself, edit `~/.hermes/skills/<name>/SKILL.md` directly with your editor. The pin only guards the agent's tool path, not your own filesystem access.
+If you want a stronger guarantee than "no deletion" — for instance, freezing a skill's content entirely while the agent still reads it — edit `~/.hermes/skills/<name>/SKILL.md` directly with your editor. The pin guards tool-driven deletion, not your own filesystem access.
 
 ## Usage telemetry