The breakthrough that let chat capture work across every hermes entry point wasn't a re-architecture — it was a plugin. Native environment-variable plumbing misses surfaces like the desktop dashboard and bare CLI. Pairing a default-skills plugin with launchctl setenv covered what the env var couldn't, and the same plugin pattern is now the template for every new surface.
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