Profile install/update overwrites local skills and cron jobs
Cluster 25120 · hermes cli. Data as of
1 open item. Fix merged in #124390 on 26 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.
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- Known?
- Yes. 5 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
- Fix event
- A fix was merged to main in PR #124390. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
- Tracker
- The maintainers' tracker marks this
resolved, deciding PR #111344. That is separate from the fix event. - Still open
- 0 issues and 1 PR.
These issues and fixes concern a bug where running profile install or update with --force destructively replaces locally added skills and cron jobs, ignoring the distribution_owned flag. The proposed fix involves using an additive merge strategy to preserve user-added entries.
Open issues0
Open PRs1
- PR#25150fix(cli): use additive merge in profile install/update to preserve local skills
Fixes on record
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#111344 fix(profile): distribution update no longer deletes user-added skills or cron jobs (#110920, #25120, salvage #110933 #111179)
files:
contributors/emails/[redacted:email],hermes_cli/profile_cmd.py,hermes_cli/profile_distribution.py,hermes_cli/subcommands/profile.py,tests/hermes_cli/test_profile_distribution.py,website/docs/reference/profile-commands.md,website/docs/user-guide/profile-distributions.md -
#124390 fix(profile_distribution): an owned skill category with a README.md keeps installer-added skills
files:
hermes_cli/profile_distribution.py,tests/hermes_cli/test_profile_distribution.py
1 PR closed without merging
From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1
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#44386 fix(profile): preserve user-added skills and cron jobs on install --force / update · superseded by another PR →
#111344,#25120,#124390
Closed issues · 1
- Closed#25120Bug: hermes profile install/update destructively replaces local skills despite distribution_owned flag
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