# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Profile skills override without global fallback option

## Open now

- 2 issues, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #19451: Feature: make global skills truly global across profiles
- #32773: Profile skills directory fully shadows global skills — no cascade fallback
- PR #53534: feat(skills): let profiles opt into default skills
- _Broad area: open items may be separate problems._

These issues concern the lack of cascade or fallback behavior when profile-level skills shadow global skills. The requests ask for a way to make global skills available across profiles, with opt-in or inheritance mechanisms.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 2 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.
- Members outside that structural core may belong to a different underlying problem.
- Pairwise link density `0.45`: 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

- #19451: Feature: make global skills truly global across profiles
- #32773: Profile skills directory fully shadows global skills — no cascade fallback

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#53534: feat(skills): let profiles opt into default skills**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `agent/prompt_builder.py`, `agent/skill_commands.py`, `agent/skill_utils.py`, `hermes_cli/commands.py`, `hermes_cli/config_defaults.py`, `tests/agent/test_external_skills.py`, `tests/agent/test_prompt_builder.py`, `tests/agent/test_skill_utils.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_commands.py`, `tests/tools/test_skills_tool_profile_scope.py`, `tools/skills_tool.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/skills.md`

## Fix status

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