# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Skills Guard false positives blocking installs fixed

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #118155: skills_guard false positives on first-party Unity doc prose hard-block install with no remediation path

These items address false positive detections in Skills Guard that incorrectly blocked legitimate skill installations, including a curl operand ordering issue and first-party Unity documentation triggering hard blocks with no remediation path.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 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 #135595. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #135595 (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: `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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #118155: skills_guard false positives on first-party Unity doc prose hard-block install with no remediation path

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#135595: fix(skills): legitimate hub skills no longer blocked by Skills Guard false positives (salvage #127414, #132158, #126719)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `tests/tools/test_plugin_guard.py`, `tests/tools/test_skills_guard.py`, `tools/plugin_guard.py`, `tools/plugin_guard_context.py`, `tools/skills_guard.py`
- **#127414: fix(skills): curl needs an operand before the pipe-to-interpreter rules**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `b7a6fda9d1b`, `#135595`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #135595 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-09`.
- Subsystem: `skills`