# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Skill lifecycle integrity during context compression

## Open now

- 2 issues, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #29300: feat: dedupe loaded skills via active skill context registry
- #36656: Feature Request: Volatile skills — load content for one turn only
- _Broad area: open items may be separate problems._

These members address how loaded skills are tracked, deduplicated, and protected from being incorrectly pruned or invalidated during context compression events. The work spans detection markers, registry-based deduplication, volatile/single-turn skill loading, and guarding against corrupted skill availability state.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 2 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 0 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #70275. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #70275 (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: `partially_resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-70275`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.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 `0.29`: 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

- #29300: feat: dedupe loaded skills via active skill context registry
- #36656: Feature Request: Volatile skills — load content for one turn only

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #32106: Invalid skill availability state after context compression can corrupt active task execution

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#70275: fix(compression): ghost-skill defense — \[SKILL_PRUNED\] markers, protected prune, deterministic survival (salvage #44166)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `agent/context_compressor.py`, `agent/prompt_builder.py`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `tests/agent/test_ghost_skill_pruning.py`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #70275 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-07-23`.
- Subsystem: `skills`