# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Skill mutation protection policy for bundled/hub skills

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #27997: Feature: Declarative Skill Protection Policy for consistent skill safety across all operations
- PR #42378: feat(skills): add bundled/hub-installed guard to all skill mutation operations
- PR #127687: feat(skills): declarative skill protection policy — block agent mutation of bundled/hub skills (#27997)

These items concern adding a declarative protection policy that guards bundled and hub-installed skills from being mutated or modified by agents. The work spans enforcement across all relevant skill mutation operations.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.67`: 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

- #27997: Feature: Declarative Skill Protection Policy for consistent skill safety across all operations

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#42378: feat(skills): add bundled/hub-installed guard to all skill mutation operations**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `96bc524a717d1b39fbb2044973616518209d77a0`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_skill_manager_tool.py`, `tools/skill_manager_tool.py`
- **#127687: feat(skills): declarative skill protection policy — block agent mutation of bundled/hub skills (#27997)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `skills/protection.py`, `tests/tools/test_skill_protection.py`, `tools/skill_manager_tool.py`

## Fix status

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