# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Checkpoint staging failures not propagating correctly

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #109992: Checkpoint diff and safe restore report success after git staging fails
- PR #109993: fix(checkpoints): propagate staging failures to diff and restore

These items address a bug where failures during git staging were not being propagated to checkpoint diff and restore operations, causing them to incorrectly report success. The fixes ensure the system fails closed when staging errors occur.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Open related issues

- #109992: Checkpoint diff and safe restore report success after git staging fails

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#109993: fix(checkpoints): propagate staging failures to diff and restore**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_checkpoint_staging_errors.py`, `tools/checkpoint_manager.py`
- **#120959: fix(checkpoints): fail closed when staging diff fails**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`

## Fix status

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