# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Skill self-claim warnings flooding startup logs

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug causes repeated 'already claimed' warnings for skill commands on every startup, apparently due to concurrent or non-atomic skill scanning. Related fixes address the warning flood and atomic publishing of the skill-command map.

## 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 #90387. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #90387 (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-90387`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #74574: errors.log: 101 skill_commands WARNINGs on every startup — each skill 'already claimed' by itself

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#90387: fix(skills): startup no longer logs 69 self-collision warnings; skill map publishes atomically (salvage #74960)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/skill_commands.py`, `tests/agent/test_skill_commands.py`
- **#74960: fix(skills): publish the skill-command map atomically (#74574)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#90387`, `#88023`
- **#87323: fix(skills): stop self-claim warning flood from concurrent skill scans**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#74960`, `#20536`, `#26433`, `#37045`, `#27750`, `#42308`, `#42421`, `#49240`, `#65975`, `#87323`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #90387 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-20`.
- Subsystem: `agent`