# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Office document edits dropping content or keeping stale structure

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

The three members share a theme: Office (and in one case PDF) document helpers or skills may drop content or leave outdated structure during read, restructure, flatten, or edit operations. One is a bug report and two appear to be change proposals addressing it; titles alone do not show whether any fix is complete.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #146346. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #146346 (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-146346`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #82722: \[Bug\]: Office document workflows can drop content or retain stale structure

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#146346: Office and PDF helpers stop dropping content on read, restructure and flatten (salvage #82724)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `skills/productivity/microsoft-office/references/restructuring.md`, `skills/productivity/microsoft-office/scripts/docx_read.py`, `skills/productivity/microsoft-office/scripts/pptx_create.py`, `skills/productivity/microsoft-office/scripts/pptx_from_template.py`, `skills/productivity/microsoft-office/scripts/xlsx_restructure.py`, `skills/productivity/microsoft-office/tests/test_docx_skill.py`, `skills/productivity/microsoft-office/tests/test_powerpoint_skill.py`, `skills/productivity/microsoft-office/tests/test_xlsx_skill.py`, `skills/productivity/pdf/scripts/pdf_fill_form.py`, `skills/productivity/pdf/tests/test_pdf_skill.py`
- **#82724: fix(skills): preserve Office content and structure across document edits**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `395e89060f`, `#146346`, `#146333`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #146346 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-29`.
- Subsystem: `skills`