# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Reduce plugin-guard false positives on prose text

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address the plugin-guard scanner incorrectly flagging explanatory prose, comments, and bare references in CLAUDE.md files as policy violations. The work narrows the scanner's detection logic to avoid blocking plugins over non-functional descriptive text.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #111274. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #111274 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-111274`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.67`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #103364: plugin-guard false positives: context isolation prose and bare CLAUDE.md references

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#111274: Plugin scanner no longer hard-blocks plugins over prose and comments mentioning attack shapes (#103364, #111193; salvage #103383, #111199, #111204)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_plugin_guard.py`, `tests/tools/test_skills_guard.py`, `tools/plugin_guard.py`, `tools/skills_guard.py`
- **#103383: fix(plugins): plugin-guard should not flag explanatory prose (#103364)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `bb1d255a77d8a1495de6c011e89fe9f763a33569`, `#111274`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #111274 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-14`.