# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Profile cloning failures from dangling skill symlinks

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #56821: \[Bug\]: profile create --clone fails on dangling skill symlinks and can leave partial profiles

A bug and multiple fix attempts address profile clone operations failing or producing partial results when dangling skill symlinks are present. The fixes aim to make the cloning and export paths more tolerant of such symlinks.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #56821: \[Bug\]: profile create --clone fails on dangling skill symlinks and can leave partial profiles

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#56822: fix(cli): harden profile cloning against dangling skill symlinks**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `b7192b1cb`
- **#56851: fix(cli): tolerate dangling skill symlinks when cloning profiles**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#56822`, `#56821`

## Fix status

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