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Skills read tools missing from idempotent guardrail list

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 30408 · agent

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #100967. Check it covers your case.

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A fix was merged to main in PR #100967. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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A bug was identified where skills_list and skill_view are read-only tools but were absent from IDEMPOTENT_TOOL_NAMES, causing repeated identical calls to go undetected by the tool-loop guardrail. Multiple fixes and related agent guards address this gap.

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  • #100967 fix(guardrails): tool-call loops hard-stop on unattended platforms, identical replays halt for any tool (#49075, #89069; salvage #49189, #47231)

    merged to main

    files: agent/agent_init.py, agent/tool_guardrails.py, cli-config.yaml.example, hermes_cli/config_defaults.py, run_agent.py, tests/agent/test_tool_guardrails.py, tests/run_agent/test_tool_call_guardrail_runtime.py, website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md, website/docs/user-guide/docker.md

5 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 2 · superseded by another PR 2 · duplicate 1

  • #47231 fix(agent): guard repeated skill reads · merged via another change → 25d954c, #100967, #49075
  • #49092 fix(guardrails): add skills_list/skill_view to IDEMPOTENT_TOOL_NAMES · superseded by another PR
  • #49101 fix(guardrail): add skills_list and skill_view to IDEMPOTENT_TOOL_NAMES · duplicate → #47231, #49092, #49075
  • #49202 fix(agent): guard repeated skill read tool calls · merged via another change → 25d954c, #100967, #47231
  • #54411 fix(guardrails): add skills_list/skill_view to IDEMPOTENT_TOOL_NAMES · superseded by another PR
Closed issues · 2
  • Closed#30408Hermes should stop repeated tool loops and block obviously broken final responses
  • Closed#49075[bug] Tool-loop guardrail: skills_list / skill_view are read-only but missing from IDEMPOTENT_TOOL_NAMES, so repeated-identical-call loops go undetected
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#100967
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5 PRs closed without merging
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2 Sep 2026

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