# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Skill lookup by frontmatter name versus directory slug

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members all concern skills not being found or opened when the frontmatter display name differs from the directory slug, affecting _find_skill() in the skill manager and the dashboard skill editor. Three are fix-oriented changes and one is a bug report; their titles do not show whether any fix has been merged or works.

## 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 #133967. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #133967 (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: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-133967`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #61172: \[Bug\]: Dashboard Skill Editor cannot open skills when display name differs from directory slug

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#133967: fix(skills): resolve skills by frontmatter display name in the manager and dashboard editor**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server_skill_editor.py`, `tests/tools/test_skill_manager_tool.py`, `tools/skill_manager_tool.py`
- **#61177: fix(tools/skill_manager): support frontmatter.name in _find_skill() (#61172)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#99626`, `#61172`
- **#99626: fix(skills): resolve the frontmatter name _find_skill ignores**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #133967 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-06`.
- Subsystem: `dashboard`