# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Skills guard exfil detection for Send context

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes relate to the skills guard failing to flag 'Send child context' (and workers context) as exfiltration. Multiple fix attempts address restoring or correcting this detection behavior.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #117572. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #117572 (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-117572`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #117033: \[Bug\]: skills_guard misses Send child context as exfil

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#117572: fix(skills): guard flags 'Send child context' as exfil again (#117033, salvage #117034)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_skills_guard.py`, `tools/skills_guard.py`
- **#117034: fix(skills): flag Send child/workers context as exfil**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `d766e5d1de`, `#117572`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #117572 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-20`.