NousResearch/hermes-agent

dns_exfil false positives for word 'host'

Cluster 108873. Data as of

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #108895 on 12 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These issues and fixes concern the skills_guard dns_exfil check incorrectly flagging the English word 'host' in prose and Markdown as a critical finding. Work is ongoing to suppress path-interpolation and plain-text false positives.

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  • #108895 skills_guard: English "host" in prose no longer a CRITICAL dns_exfil finding (#108873)

    merged to main

    files: tests/tools/test_skills_guard.py, tools/skills_guard.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 1

  • #108886 fix(skills-guard): stop dns_exfil from flagging path-interpolation prose · done elsewhere → 596bd8f, #108895, #108873
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#108873skills_guard: English “host” in Markdown still triggers CRITICAL dns_exfil on current main
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  • Pairwise link density 0.67: the share of item 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.

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#108895
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1 PR closed without merging
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12 Sep 2026

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