# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Bundled skill provenance lost on profile restore

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #129599: Bundled skills lose built-in provenance on restored profiles, get reported as unmanaged/agent-created
- PR #129605: fix(skills): restore bundled provenance for recovered profiles
- PR #129606: fix(skills): recover bundled provenance on restored profiles

These items address a bug where bundled skills lose their built-in provenance when profiles are restored, causing them to be incorrectly reported as unmanaged or agent-created. The work involves recovering and restoring that provenance correctly.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #129599: Bundled skills lose built-in provenance on restored profiles, get reported as unmanaged/agent-created

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#129605: fix(skills): restore bundled provenance for recovered profiles**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `5bfa392a2e6f834e9439714c55fde867f0b6a12a`, `a6acdf619a548c78ae3cd9e3b15551e1a47d798a`, `a6acdf619a548c78ae3cd9e3b15551e1a47d798a`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_skill_usage.py`, `tests/tools/test_skills_sync.py`, `tools/skill_usage.py`, `tools/skills_sync.py`
- **#129606: fix(skills): recover bundled provenance on restored profiles**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `e46cebdd2e`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_skill_usage.py`, `tools/skill_usage.py`, `tools/skills_sync.py`

## Fix status

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