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External dirs skills provenance and write guard fix

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #128387 on 1 Oct 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These members address a bug where skills using external_dirs were misclassified as agent-owned ('learned') rather than external, and lacked proper guards preventing in-place writes or patches to those directories.

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  • #128387 feat(skills): external mounts get an 'external' provenance tier (#108032)

    merged to main

    files: agent/learning_graph.py, apps/desktop/src/app/capabilities/catalog/skill-catalog.tsx, apps/desktop/src/app/capabilities/skills/skill-detail.tsx, apps/desktop/src/app/capabilities/skills/skill-provenance.test.ts, apps/desktop/src/app/capabilities/skills/skill-provenance.ts, apps/desktop/src/types/hermes.ts, hermes_cli/curator.py, hermes_cli/web_routers/skills.py, tests/tools/test_skill_provenance_external.py, tools/skill_usage.py

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 1 · duplicate 1

  • #108040 fix(skills): classify external_dirs as external and default-deny in-place writes · done elsewhere → 8c8fc6c, #128387, #17512
  • #108767 fix(skills): external_dirs distinct provenance and read-only guard (#108032) · duplicate → #108040, #108032, #17512
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#108032[Bug/Security]: external_dirs skills misclassified as "learned" (agent-owned) with absent write/patch permission guard
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