# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Skill manage field confusion causing operation failures

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern a content-slot or field naming confusion in the skill_manage flat operations schema that triggers errors like 'old_string is required' and aborts skill update operations. The work involves diagnosing and addressing how action shapes are advertised and validated.

## 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 #113788. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #113788 (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: `unresolved`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #104776: skill_manage flat operations schema: 4-way content-slot field confusion causes 'old_string is required' retry loops on 27B models

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#113788: fix(skills): skill_manage advertises one shape per action; a misfiled text slot fails before any op applies (closes remaining atoms of #112677)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/curator.py`, `tests/agent/test_curator.py`, `tests/tools/test_skill_manage_schema_diet.py`, `tests/tools/test_skill_manager_tool.py`, `tools/skill_manager_batch.py`, `tools/skill_manager_tool.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/skills.md`
- **#104800: fix(skills): stop batch field confusion from aborting skill updates**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `968624b0db`, `#113788`, `#112677`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #113788 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-17`.