Skills (8)

Official issues about installing, loading, and managing skills. Sourced from the official GitHub repo; status derived from official labels; every entry links back to its source with a last-checked date.

#58340 Investigating P3 comp/agent

[Feature Request] Auto-load relevant skills before task execution

Feature request: auto-suggest or auto-load relevant skills before task execution, since agents often forget to check installed skills.

#58239 Investigating P3 tool/skills

bug: himalaya skill has incorrect flag command syntax for v1.2.0

The built-in himalaya skill documents an outdated --flag argument syntax for flag add/remove that fails on himalaya v1.2.0, which now requires positional arguments instead.

#58149 Investigating P3 tool/web

[Bug] unbroker skill field-test: web_extract limits, broker jurisdiction gap, subagent ledger reliability, missing broker refs

Field-testing the unbroker skill against a real subject surfaced structural issues: web_extract's DuckDuckGo backend can't fetch arbitrary pages, several brokers are blocked by anti-bot protection from datacenter IPs, and some brokers are missing reference JSON files.

#38240 Investigating P3 tool/skills

[skills-index-watchdog] Skills index is stale or degraded (degraded)

An automated freshness probe detected the skills index in a degraded state (github: 0 < 30); this issue is auto-opened by a GitHub Actions workflow and will reopen until the underlying rebuild problem is fixed.

#34860 Workaround P3 tool/skills

bundled skill sync can leave stale .bak directories

Skill sync leaves behind stale backup directories. A low-priority P3 cleanup issue that does not affect functionality.

Workaround

Manually remove the stale .bak directories; skills keep working normally.

#32925 Investigating P3 tool/skills

Feature Request: Integrate Microsoft SkillOpt for Self-Evolving Agent Skills

This issue proposes exploring integration of Microsoft's SkillOpt, a text-space optimizer for training reusable agent skills via trajectory-driven edits, to enable automated skill optimization in Hermes without modifying model weights.

#15602 Investigating P3 tool/skills

google-workspace skill: add multi-account support

The google-workspace skill only supports a single Google account due to a fixed token file path, forcing users with multiple accounts to route the second account through an external tool; the issue proposes an --account flag with per-account token files.

#11692 Investigating P3 comp/agent

Receipts for self-improving agents: proving which skill version produced which output

A discussion-style feature request raises governance concerns about Hermes' self-modifying skills: since skills are created and improved automatically, there is no built-in way to prove which version of a skill produced a given output or under what policy it ran.

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