# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Skills scanner false-positive on own denylist entries

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

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.

## 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 #111265. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #111265 (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-111265`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #92478: skills_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

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#111265: Skills scanner no longer quarantines a skill for naming the secrets it refuses to read (#92478, salvage #92632)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_skills_guard.py`, `tools/skills_guard.py`
- **#92632: fix(skills): stop scoring a skill's own denylist as an access**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `36c7f6c89d23`, `#111265`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #111265 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-14`.