# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Skills support-path parsing edge case fixes

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #85172: \[Setup\]: hermes skills install fails with misleading "Could not fetch" error on large SKILL.md files
- PR #102591: fix(skills): skip trailing-slash directory references in support paths (#85172)

These items relate to a bug where skill installation fails or produces misleading errors due to improper handling of trailing-slash directory references and glob patterns during support-path extraction. The fixes skip such references to avoid the underlying issue.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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.

## Open related issues

- #85172: \[Setup\]: hermes skills install fails with misleading "Could not fetch" error on large SKILL.md files

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#85212: fix(skills): skip glob and directory refs in support-path extraction (#85172)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#82236`
- **#102591: fix(skills): skip trailing-slash directory references in support paths (#85172)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#85172`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_skills_hub.py`, `tools/skills_hub_github.py`, `tools/skills_hub_models.py`

## Fix status

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