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Skills trust-level prefix-match security hardening

Cluster 31141 · skills. Data as of

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #31229 on 25 May 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These items address a vulnerability where attacker-controllable skill identifiers could exploit prefix-matching logic in skills_guard to obtain elevated trust tiers. The work focuses on tightening trust-level assignment by enforcing exact or subpath matching and anchoring trust to verified provenance rather than identifier strings.

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  • #31229 fix: harden skill trust source matching

    merged to main

    files: hermes_cli/skills_hub.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_skills_hub.py, tests/tools/test_skills_guard.py, tools/skills_guard.py

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: duplicate 1 · superseded by another PR 1

  • #31146 fix(security): use exact-or-subpath match for skills_guard trusted-repo tier · superseded by another PR → 9366064, #31229
  • #31153 security(skills): prevent prefix-match trust level bypass · duplicate → #31146, #31141
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#31141security: skills_guard._resolve_trust_level prefix-match grants trusted tier to attacker-controlled identifiers
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  • Pairwise link density 0.50: the share of item 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.

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#31229
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2 PRs closed without merging
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25 May 2026

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