There is a glitch where if you merit your puppets skills, it automatically shows as capped when you look at your puppets equipment, but you still have to cap it normally.
so im skilling up for nothing is what your telling me?
The skillup glitch will benefit you when the level cap is raised in the future as they will go towards the next two levels. I was able to get Stone V at 77 with capped skill without ever actually skilling up.