# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Skill versioning and edit history tracking

## Open now

- 3 issues, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #3626: feat: track skill patch/edit history for auditability
- #20352: \[IMPROVEMENT\] Skills in ~/.hermes/skills/ are unversioned hand-edited markdown
- #56702: Skill versioning with git-backed changelogs
- PR #4755: feat(skills): log patch/edit history to per-skill patch_history.jsonl
- _Broad area: open items may be separate problems._

These items concern adding version control and audit trails for skills stored in ~/.hermes/skills/, including git-backed changelogs and per-skill patch history logs.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 3 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.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

- #3626: feat: track skill patch/edit history for auditability
- #20352: \[IMPROVEMENT\] Skills in ~/.hermes/skills/ are unversioned hand-edited markdown
- #56702: Skill versioning with git-backed changelogs

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#4755: feat(skills): log patch/edit history to per-skill patch_history.jsonl**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_log_patch.py`, `tools/skill_manager_tool.py`

## Fix status

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