# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Essential skill opt-out control for locked-down homes

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #110731: .no-bundled-skills and skills.disabled cannot keep the essential hermes-agent skill out of a home (0.21.x)
- PR #110749: feat(skills): skills.seed_essentials lets a locked-down home opt out of essential seeding

These items concern a mechanism allowing homes to opt out of essential skill seeding, and a related issue where certain configuration flags could not prevent the hermes-agent skill from being bundled. The work spans a feature addition, a reported limitation, and a corresponding fix.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #110731: .no-bundled-skills and skills.disabled cannot keep the essential hermes-agent skill out of a home (0.21.x)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#110735: fix(skills): honor bundled skill opt-out**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#110731`, `#94404`, `#110749`
- **#110749: feat(skills): skills.seed_essentials lets a locked-down home opt out of essential seeding**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#110735`, `#94404`
  - files: `agent/skill_utils.py`, `hermes_cli/skills_config.py`, `tests/agent/test_phantom_tool_references.py`, `tools/skill_manager_guards.py`, `tools/skills_sync.py`

## Fix status

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