# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Skill write disk persistence verification fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and pull requests address a bug where skill management reported success without confirming data was actually written to disk, causing skills to be silently lost. The work adds post-write verification to catch persistence failures.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 4 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.40`: 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

- #31657: skill_manage reports success without verifying on-disk persistence — skills silently lost

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#31669: fix(tools): add post-write persistence verification to skill_manage (fixes #31657)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
- **#31757: fix: verify skill writes actually persist**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#31669`, `#31657`
- **#33820: fix(skills): verify skill writes persist to disk**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
- **#52626: fix(skills): verify skill writes persist to disk (#31657)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#31669`, `#31757`, `#33820`, `#31657`

## Fix status

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