# NousResearch/hermes-agent · hermes skills trust git/cwd path resolution issues

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #127025: \[Bug\]: \`hermes skills trust\` reports "Not inside a git checkout" when run inside a git repository
- PR #127042: fix(cli): resolve bare skills trust from the shell cwd

These items concern a bug where \`hermes skills trust\` incorrectly reports not being inside a git repository, and related fixes addressing how the command resolves the current working directory in different contexts.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #127025: \[Bug\]: \`hermes skills trust\` reports "Not inside a git checkout" when run inside a git repository

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#127042: fix(cli): resolve bare skills trust from the shell cwd**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `ba40336261`, `#114359`, `#48975`, `#127025`
  - files: `hermes_cli/main_agent_cmds.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_skills_trust_shell_cwd.py`
- **#128164: fix: allow hermes skills trust to work from a configured TERMINAL_CWD that is not a git repo (#127025)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`

## Fix status

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