# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Skill lookup dedup and replay guardrail stall handling

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #132177: skill_view dedup stub references a result already pruned from context, driving deterministic idempotent_no_progress_block stalls
- PR #132196: fix(replay): drop of interrupted read-only blocks must invalidate read dedups
- PR #140143: fix(skills): converge task-local lookups and continue after lookup guardrails

The three members appear related, concerning deduplication of skill_view or read-only lookups, stale references to pruned or dropped results, and guardrail stalls such as idempotent_no_progress_block. Two are fix-oriented titles and one reports a stall; the exact relationship between them is not fully established by the titles alone.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #132177: skill_view dedup stub references a result already pruned from context, driving deterministic idempotent_no_progress_block stalls

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#132196: fix(replay): drop of interrupted read-only blocks must invalidate read dedups**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `agent/replay_cleanup.py`, `tests/agent/test_replay_cleanup.py`
- **#140143: fix(skills): converge task-local lookups and continue after lookup guardrails**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `agent/conversation_compression.py`, `agent/prompt_builder.py`, `agent/skill_guardrail_recovery.py`, `agent/skill_resolution.py`, `agent/tool_executor.py`, `agent/tool_guardrails.py`, `agent/turn_context.py`, `run_agent.py`, `tests/agent/test_skill_resolution_runtime.py`, `tools/skills_tool.py`, `tools/skills_tool_plugin.py`, `website/docs/developer-guide/context-compression-and-caching.md`

## Fix status

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