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Skills cache keyed by name causes wrong installs

Cluster 78004 · skills. Data as of

2 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

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1open issue
1open PR
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Known?
Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 0 issues already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. 1 PR closed without merging; see the attempts below.
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1 issue and 1 PR.

A bug where the skills system resolves and caches by skill name rather than source identifier, which can silently install an incorrect same-named skill and overwrite local content. Related fixes address cache keying and preventing metadata/bundle mixing across sources.

Open issues1

  • Issue#78004[Bug]: hermes skills install resolves/caches by skill name, not source identifier — silently installs wrong same-name skill, overwriting local content

Open PRs1

  • PR#78017fix(skills): key security-scan cache by source identifier, not name (#78004)

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: duplicate 1

  • #88022 fix(skills): never join metadata and bundle across sources · duplicate → #88020, #78004, #78017
How this cluster was grouped
  • Link evidence (structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
  • Pairwise link density 0.67: the share of item 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.

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