# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Package-internal Markdown wrongly treated as legacy skills

## Open now

- 0 issues, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- PR #110461: fix(skills): keep package Markdown from blocking skill loads
- PR #110471: fix(skills): stop package-internal markdown from shadowing real skills

A bug where Markdown files inside a package's prompts/ directory were being misidentified as legacy flat skills, causing collisions or blocking real skill loads. Multiple fix attempts address this misclassification.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #111339. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #111339 (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-111339`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.40`: 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

- #110456: \[Bug\]: skill_view treats Markdown under prompts/ as a legacy flat skill

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#111339: fix(skills): skill_view no longer reports a collision for a package's internal prompts/<name>.md (#110456, salvage #110461)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_skills_tool.py`, `tools/skills_tool.py`
- **#110461: fix(skills): keep package Markdown from blocking skill loads**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `116e625c80c2e97cd64c7a9c8f4921e731307962`, `07fcae210937d0aae2b4c0a35db3907a0eb0c93c`, `#110461`, `#111339`, `#110462`, `#110471`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_skills_tool.py`, `tools/skills_tool.py`
- **#110462: fix(skills): reject package-owned Markdown from legacy flat skill candidates**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#110461`, `#110456`
- **#110471: fix(skills): stop package-internal markdown from shadowing real skills**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#111339`, `#97835`, `#98018`
  - files: `agent/skill_utils.py`, `tests/agent/test_skill_utils.py`, `tests/tools/test_skills_tool.py`, `tools/skills_tool.py`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #111339 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-15`.
- Subsystem: `skills`