# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Improve error preview in _validate_llm_response

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug report and two fixes addressing how _validate_llm_response truncates or displays response previews in error messages, with focus on making diagnostics clearer and shape-aware.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #100419: \[Bug\]: _validate_llm_response truncates response repr at 120 bytes, producing diagnostically ambiguous error

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#100421: fix(aux): shape-aware preview in _validate_llm_response error**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `c9c1a54df7`
- **#100833: fix: improve _validate_llm_response error preview**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#100421`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `agent`