# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Background review handling of user-owned and managed skill edits

## Open now

- 0 issues, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- PR #112476: fix(skills): require review before managed skill edits freeze bundled updates

The three members all concern how background review treats skill changes: one reports lessons being dropped for user-owned skills before the staging gate, one proposes improving every skill instead, and one requires review before managed skill edits freeze bundled updates. They appear related, but the titles alone do not show whether the proposed changes are the same approach.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 0 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #134432. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #134432 (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-134432`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #134289: \[Bug\]: background review drops lessons for user-owned skills (refused before the staging gate, no surfacing path)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#134432: Background review can improve every skill instead of dropping lessons for user-owned ones (#134289)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/background_review.py`, `agent/curator.py`, `tests/tools/test_skill_manager_tool.py`, `tools/skill_manager_guards.py`, `tools/skill_manager_tool.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/curator.md`
- **#112476: fix(skills): require review before managed skill edits freeze bundled updates**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#112476`, `#63636`, `#63482`, `#134432`, `#134289`, `#137258`, `#112494`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_skill_managed_approval.py`, `tools/skill_manager_batch.py`, `tools/skill_manager_tool.py`, `tools/write_approval.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/skills.md`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #134432 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-07`.
- Subsystem: `skills`