# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Prevent skill_manage from overwriting bundled/hub skills

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and pull requests concern a bug where background review agents and curators could overwrite bundled or hub skills via skill_manage. The work involves adding guards to block such writes.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 3 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #20273: \[Bug\]: Background review agent and curator can overwrite bundled/hub skills via skill_manage

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#21178: fix(security): guard bundled/hub skills from skill_manage writes (#20273)**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#18402`, `#20273`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._
- **#20560: fix(security): guard bundled and hub skills from skill_manage writes**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#21178`, `#20273`
- **#20755: fix(tools): block background review from editing bundled skills**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#20273`, `#18402`, `#19379`, `#20560`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.