`hermes backup` walked every file under HERMES_HOME, excluding only
hermes-agent / node_modules / __pycache__ / backups / checkpoints. Python
dependency trees (plugin and MCP-server venvs, site-packages) and pip/uv
tool caches that live under HERMES_HOME were swept in file-by-file,
ballooning a backup to hundreds of thousands of entries that crawl for
hours — the reported "backup stuck for days / 426543 files" symptom.
Add the canonical regeneratable-dir names (.venv, venv, site-packages,
.tox, .nox, .pytest_cache, .mypy_cache, .ruff_cache — mirroring
agent.skill_utils.EXCLUDED_SKILL_DIRS) plus .cache to the backup's
exclusion set, used by both run_backup and the pre-update/pre-migration
_write_full_zip_backup. .archive is intentionally left in so the curator's
restorable archived skills still get backed up.
Tests cover each new dir name (excluded at any depth), that .archive and
cache-resembling files are kept, and an integration check that a planted
venv/site-packages/cache is pruned from the actual backup zip while
skills/config survive.
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