# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Debate over default for guard_agent_created setting

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #53491: Skills: guard_agent_created off by default + ask-policy leaks findings + fail-open

These members discuss and adjust the default value of the guard_agent_created flag for skill security scanning, with disagreement between fail-closed (default on) and fail-open (default off) approaches, and a related concern about ask-policy leaking findings.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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.

## Open related issues

- #53491: Skills: guard_agent_created off by default + ask-policy leaks findings + fail-open

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#16593: feat(security): default skills.guard_agent_created to true**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._
- **#53492: fix(skills): scan agent-created skill writes by default (fail-closed)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `aabc7f06b`, `ce089169d5`

## Fix status

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