# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Skills env vars reported missing on remote backends

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Three members concern persisted or required environment variables for skills in remote-backed sessions (e.g. daytona, docker), where they appear to be marked missing or not passed through. Two are identically titled fixes and one is a bug report; their exact relationship and outcomes are not established by the titles alone.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #3650. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #3650 (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: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-3650`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #3433: \[Bug\]: \`required_environment_variables\` are not passed through correctly for remote-backed sessions (\`daytona\`, \`docker\`, etc.)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#3650: fix(skills): stop marking persisted env vars missing on remote backends**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_skill_env_passthrough.py`, `tests/tools/test_skills_tool.py`, `tools/skills_tool.py`
- **#3452: fix(skills): stop marking persisted env vars missing on remote backends**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#3650`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #3650 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-03-29`. This confirmation is old and may be out of date (a revert/reopen would not have invalidated it here); re-verify.
- Subsystem: `environments`