NousResearch/hermes-agent

Orphaned lease misread as sibling, locking sessions

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #101663 on 2 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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A backend incorrectly treats its own orphaned leases as belonging to a sibling owner, causing sessions to be permanently locked. The members address identifying and reclaiming these orphaned leases rather than blocking on them.

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  • #101663 fix(sessions): reclaim a backend's own orphaned leases instead of reading them as a sibling owner (salvage #101437)

    merged to main

    files: hermes_cli/active_sessions.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_active_sessions.py, tests/tui_gateway/test_cross_process_orphan_ownership.py, tui_gateway/server.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 1

  • #101437 fix(desktop): stop orphaned leases from permanently locking chats · merged via another change → #101663
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#101415[Bug]: a backend's own orphaned lease reads as a sibling owner, permanently locking its own sessions ("already has a live owner")
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  • Pairwise link density 0.67: the share of item 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.

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2 Sep 2026

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