# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Goal and conversation persistence across session resets

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members address a bug where active goals and conversations are orphaned or lost when idle or daily session boundaries trigger a reset. The fix ensures migration logic is called so state survives those transitions.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #105021. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #105021 (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-105021`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #104445: \[Bug\]: /goal orphaned by idle/daily session expiry — reset path never calls migrate_goal_to_session

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#105021: fix(gateway): conversations survive idle and daily boundaries (#104445)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `CONTRIBUTING.md`, `cli-config.yaml.example`, `docs/session-lifecycle.md`, `evals/gateway/session_time_persistence_ab.py`, `evals/gateway/session_time_persistence_controls.py`, `gateway/__init__.py`, `gateway/config.py`, `gateway/config_env.py`, `gateway/config_loader.py`, `gateway/run.py`, `gateway/run_agent_cache.py`, `gateway/run_startup.py`, `gateway/run_turn.py`, `gateway/run_watchers.py`, `gateway/session.py`, `gateway/session_lifecycle.py`, `gateway/session_persistence.py`, `gateway/session_recovery.py`, `hermes_cli/cli_info_mixin.py`, `hermes_cli/config.py` (+45 more)
- **#104459: fix(gateway): carry an active /goal across idle/daily session reset (#104445)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#105021`, `#104445`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #105021 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-07`.