# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Protect kanban role skills from curator archival

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #118753: Curator's automatic inactivity archival can silently break kanban swarm verifier/synthesizer (requesting-code-review, humanizer)
- PR #124521: fix(curator): protect kanban's hardcoded role/lane skills from inactivity archival

These issues and fixes address a bug where the curator's automatic inactivity archival can silently remove skills tied to hardcoded kanban swarm roles such as verifier, synthesizer, and humanizer. The fixes add protection so those role-specific skills are not archived.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #118753: Curator's automatic inactivity archival can silently break kanban swarm verifier/synthesizer (requesting-code-review, humanizer)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#118756: fix(kanban): protect swarm role skills from archival**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
- **#124521: fix(curator): protect kanban's hardcoded role/lane skills from inactivity archival**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `agent/curator.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_db_dispatch.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_swarm.py`, `tests/agent/test_curator.py`

## Fix status

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