# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Skills install missing linked sibling files fix

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a bug where skill installation silently omits explicitly linked files that reside outside expected support directories or in the same directory as siblings. The work covers fixes for dangling references, sibling link fetching, and related edge cases during skill installs.

## 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 #98318. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #98318 (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: `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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #96310: \[Bug\]: Skills install silently drops explicitly linked same-skill files outside support directories

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#98318: fix(skills-hub): skill installs survive dangling refs, sibling links, glob prose, and unpinned fetches (salvages #66828 #82236 #90105 #96336)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `tests/tools/test_skill_bundle_provenance.py`, `tests/tools/test_skills_hub.py`, `tools/skills_hub.py`
- **#96336: fix(skills): fetch explicitly linked same-directory siblings on install**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#98318`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #98318 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-30`.