# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Profile install/update overwrites local skills and cron jobs

## Open now

- 0 issues, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- PR #25150: fix(cli): use additive merge in profile install/update to preserve local skills

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.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 2 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #124390. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #124390 (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-111344`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.40`: 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

- #25120: Bug: hermes profile install/update destructively replaces local skills despite distribution_owned flag

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#111344: fix(profile): distribution update no longer deletes user-added skills or cron jobs (#110920, #25120, salvage #110933 #111179)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - 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**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/profile_distribution.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_profile_distribution.py`
- **#25150: fix(cli): use additive merge in profile install/update to preserve local skills**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `e53b74c39450d85d210ba06e69be5022278eb974`, `#44386`
  - files: `hermes_cli/profile_distribution.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_profile_distribution_additive.py`
- **#44386: fix(profile): preserve user-added skills and cron jobs on install --force / update**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#111344`, `#25120`, `#124390`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #124390 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-26`.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`