# NousResearch/hermes-agent · URL-based skill install robustness fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address failures and aborts during skill installation from raw URLs, including handling of unreachable support files and full bundle retrieval from GitHub skill URLs.

## 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 #98318. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #98318 (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-98318`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #66760: Raw \`hermes skills install https://.../SKILL.md\` aborts whole URL install when one referenced companion path 404s or when prose references are over-matched

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#98318: fix(skills-hub): skill installs survive dangling refs, sibling links, glob prose, and unpinned fetches (salvages #66828 #82236 #90105 #96336)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `tests/tools/test_skill_bundle_provenance.py`, `tests/tools/test_skills_hub.py`, `tools/skills_hub.py`
- **#35173: fix: install full bundles from raw GitHub skill URLs**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `51382ac244702b09482e339ecba5a88649f5ea62`, `#63051`
- **#66828: fix(cli): skip unreachable support files instead of aborting URL skill install (#66760)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#98318`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #98318 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-30`.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`