# NousResearch/hermes-agent · YAML date parsing bug in skill_view frontmatter

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #82812: skill_view fails when skill front matter contains an unquoted YAML date
- PR #131532: fix(skills): keep skills with non-string frontmatter scalars loadable

These issues and fixes address a failure in skill_view when front matter contains unquoted YAML date or datetime values. The proposed solution involves normalizing such scalars to ISO strings during serialization.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 3 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.40`: 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.

## Open related issues

- #82812: skill_view fails when skill front matter contains an unquoted YAML date

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#82855: fix(skills): serialize unquoted YAML dates in skill_view frontmatter**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
- **#83277: fix(skills): normalize YAML date/datetime scalars to ISO strings in frontmatter**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#56048`
- **#131311: fix(tools): serialize YAML date scalars in skill_view JSON**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `fa857540da`
- **#131532: fix(skills): keep skills with non-string frontmatter scalars loadable**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `d30d65ddc6`, `#131531`, `#131311`
  - files: `agent/skill_utils.py`, `tests/tools/test_skills_tool.py`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `skills`