# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Skills hub blob fetching performance and auth fixes

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #107548: skills-hub: upstream-stub install crawls one contents-API call per file (~2.3 s/file, 199 files in archify) — reads as a hang, and cannot complete unauthenticated
- PR #122829: fix(skills): fetch a skill's tree blobs concurrently

These items address slow or stalled skill/blob fetching in the skills hub, covering concurrent tree blob retrieval, switching to raw.githubusercontent.com for pinned blobs, and a bottleneck where unauthenticated installs make one API call per file causing apparent hangs.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Open related issues

- #107548: skills-hub: upstream-stub install crawls one contents-API call per file (~2.3 s/file, 199 files in archify) — reads as a hang, and cannot complete unauthenticated

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#107555: fix(skills-hub): fetch pinned skill blobs via raw.githubusercontent.com**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `18ee4251d8e762340d696bb398196a290c131722`, `51e712b651cd52f6f243412b29d1c65dafe4da24`
- **#122829: fix(skills): fetch a skill's tree blobs concurrently**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_skills_hub.py`, `tools/skills_hub_github.py`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `skills`