# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Public names for skills tool discovery and lookup helpers

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members all concern giving public names to the skills tool's discovery and lookup helpers (such as \`find_all_skills\` and \`locate_skill\`). One feature request also mentions the skill-sync hash, and two pull requests are scoped to skills and plugins respectively. Their titles do not show whether any of this has been completed.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #140978. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #140978 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-140978`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #129696: \[Feature\]: Public names for the skills tool's discovery and lookup helpers (\`find_all_skills\`, \`locate_skill\`, …) and the skill-sync hash

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#140978: feat(plugins): public names for the skills tool's discovery and lookup helpers**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/skill_commands.py`, `gateway/platforms/api_server.py`, `gateway/session_local_inventory.py`, `hermes_cli/banner.py`, `hermes_cli/curator.py`, `hermes_cli/gateway_plugin_commands.py`, `hermes_cli/plugin_validate_private_imports.py`, `hermes_cli/profiles.py`, `hermes_cli/skills_config.py`, `hermes_cli/slash_exec.py`, `hermes_cli/web_routers/skills.py`, `tests/agent/test_external_skills.py`, `tests/gateway/test_api_server.py`, `tests/gateway/test_canonical_session_inventory.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_banner_skills.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_plugin_validate_private_imports.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_skills_config.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_skills_hub.py`, `tests/tools/test_skills_runtime_cache.py`, `tests/tools/test_skills_sync.py` (+10 more)
- **#129698: feat(skills): public names for the skills tool's discovery and lookup helpers**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `bb834a2cb3`, `#140978`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #140978 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-18`.
- Subsystem: `skills`