# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Silent session loss on unreadable transcript files

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a bug where a corrupt or unreadable \`state.db\` causes transcript loading to silently return empty, allowing a \`failed\` session to resume as a new conversation without any error signal. The fixes aim to distinguish a failing read from genuinely empty history.

## 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 #100910. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #100910 (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-100910`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #100788: \[Bug\]: load_transcript() returns \[\] on a failed read — a corrupt state.db silently resumes as a new conversation (gap in #82616)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#100910: fix(gateway): unreadable state.db transcript no longer resumes as a new conversation (#100788, salvage #100798)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `gateway/run.py`, `gateway/session.py`, `tests/gateway/test_42039_duplicate_user_message.py`, `tests/gateway/test_session_continuity_82616.py`
- **#100798: fix(gateway): stop unreadable sessions from silently losing context**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `2d37a3a23c`, `#100910`
- **#100887: fix(gateway): distinguish failed transcript reads from empty history**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#101738`, `#100910`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #100910 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-02`.