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Subagent auto-approve bypasses instruction-file protections

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 120000 · agent

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3 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

The short answer

1open issue
2open PRs
3items grouped
Known?
Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 0 issues already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. see the attempts below.
Tracker
The maintainers' tracker marks this unresolved. That is separate from the fix event.
Still open
1 issue and 2 PRs.

These items concern a security gap where a delegated child agent's auto-approve callback can write to protected instruction files (AGENTS.md, SOUL.md, .cursorrules) without human approval. The group covers the bug report and related fix attempts targeting this gate.

Open issues1

  • Issue#120000[Bug]: delegation.subagent_auto_approve lets a delegated child write AGENTS.md / SOUL.md / .cursorrules without any human approval

Open PRs2

  • PR#120001fix(file-tools): a delegated child's auto-approve callback is no human for protected instruction files
  • PR#120134fix(file-tools): subagent auto-approve cannot bypass instruction-file gate (#120000)
How this cluster was grouped
  • Link evidence (structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
  • Pairwise link density 0.67: the share of item 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.

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