# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fix excluded-dir filter hiding profile-local skills

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #54035: Profile-local skills under ~/.hermes are hidden by absolute-path exclusion
- PR #54050: fix(skills): keep profile-local skills visible

These items address a bug where the excluded-directory filter uses absolute paths, causing skills under a profile-local directory (e.g., ~/.hermes) to be incorrectly hidden. The fixes adjust the filter to operate relative to the scan root.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #54035: Profile-local skills under ~/.hermes are hidden by absolute-path exclusion

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#54050: fix(skills): keep profile-local skills visible**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#54051`
  - files: `agent/skill_commands.py`, `agent/skill_utils.py`, `tests/agent/test_skill_commands.py`, `tests/tools/test_skills_tool.py`, `tools/skills_tool.py`
- **#54051: fix(skills): apply excluded-dir filter relative to scan root**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#54050`

## Fix status

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