# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Add auto-load config for pre-loading skills at session start

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and pull requests propose a configuration option to automatically pre-load or inject specified native skills at the start of every session. The feature is referred to variously as skills.auto_load or skills.always_preload.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 2 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.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 `0.39`: 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

- #26800: feat: native skills.auto_load config for persistent skill pre-loading at session start
- #62927: \[Feature\]:skills.always_preload config option to inject skill bodies into every session

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#26840: feat(skills): native skills.auto_load config for persistent skill pre-loading**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#74043`
- **#26867: feat(skills): add global skills.auto_load config (#26800)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#26840`

## Fix status

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