# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fix skill restore matching unrelated skills by name prefix

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and pull requests address a bug where the curator's restore functionality incorrectly matches and potentially deletes unrelated archived skills that share a name prefix. The members focus on preventing this erroneous prefix-based matching behavior.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #47861. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #47861 (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: `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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #47647: hermes curator restore can restore the wrong skill and delete an unrelated archived one

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#47861: fix(curator): stop restore from matching unrelated skills by name prefix**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_skill_usage.py`, `tools/skill_usage.py`
- **#47648: fix(curator): stop restore from matching unrelated skills by name prefix**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `992b922389`, `#47861`
- **#47724: fix(skills): prevent restore from matching unrelated archived skills (#47647)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#47648`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #47861 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-06-17`.
- Subsystem: `skills`