NousResearch/hermes-agent

Skills scanner false-positive on own denylist entries

Cluster 92478. Data as of 2026-10-29 11:48 UTC

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #111265 on 14 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These items address a bug where a skill's own denylist (listing secrets it refuses to read) was incorrectly scored as a critical access violation, causing the skill to be quarantined. The fix prevents the scanner from treating a skill's self-declared exclusions as actual secret access.

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#111265 Skills scanner no longer quarantines a skill for naming the secrets it refuses to read (#92478, salvage #92632)

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files: tests/tools/test_skills_guard.py, tools/skills_guard.py

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From the close comments: merged via another change 1

#92632 fix(skills): stop scoring a skill's own denylist as an access · merged via another change → 36c7f6c, #111265

Closed issues · 1

Closed#92478skills_guard: a skill's own denylist (authorized_keys / ~/.aws/credentials in a skip-list regex or comment) is scored critical ssh_backdoor / aws_dir_access — the skill that refuses to read secrets gets quarantined

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Merged PRs: #111265
Closed issues: 1
Attempts: 1 PR closed without merging
Fix link checked: 14 Sep 2026

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