# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Curator pin misleading success on unmanaged skills

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs address a bug where the Hermes curator pin command falsely reports success for unmanaged skills, while the pin remains invisible in curator status output. The work focuses on correcting the reported behavior and messaging to accurately reflect what pin does in this case.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #93486. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #93486 (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-93486`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #92993: hermes curator pin prints success on unmanaged skills but the pin is invisible to 'hermes curator status'

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#93486: curator pin no longer claims success on unmanaged skills (#92993, salvage #93149 + #93002)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/beplee@users.noreply.github.com`, `hermes_cli/curator.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_curator_pin_unmanaged.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_curator_pin_visibility.py`, `tools/skill_usage.py`
- **#93002: fix(curator): say what pin actually does on an unmanaged skill**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `95af45419`, `#93486`, `#93149`
- **#93149: fix(curator): report pin failures instead of false success and surface pinned unmanaged skills**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `95af45419`, `#93486`, `#93002`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #93486 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-24`.