# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Profile-aware skill toggle fixes

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #119088: Desktop skill toggles ignore selected profile and fresh profiles enable all skills
- PR #119117: fix(desktop): carry the skill toggle's profile in the request body
- PR #134732: fix(profiles): fresh profiles keep the active profile's disabled skills \[risk 0.55\]

These issues and pull requests address bugs where skill enable/disable state was not correctly scoped to the selected profile, including fresh profiles incorrectly inheriting or ignoring global skill settings and desktop skill toggles not passing the correct profile in requests.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #119088: Desktop skill toggles ignore selected profile and fresh profiles enable all skills

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#119117: fix(desktop): carry the skill toggle's profile in the request body**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `2943ee6f19`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/api/skills.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/hermes-capability-scope.test.ts`
- **#119119: fix(profiles): fresh profiles inherit global skills.disabled**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
- **#134732: fix(profiles): fresh profiles keep the active profile's disabled skills \[risk 0.55\]**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `50cd2cbff1708816448e0edcfb7bc4e50c447f64`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/connection-config.test.ts`, `hermes_cli/profiles.py`, `hermes_cli/skills_config.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_profiles_fresh_skills.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server_skills_profiles.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/profiles.md`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`