# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fix skipped assistant reply after consecutive review prompts

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members address a bug where consecutive background-review harness messages caused the subsequent real assistant reply to be incorrectly dropped during state restoration. The fix ensures assistant replies are preserved in that scenario.

## 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 #111566. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #111566 (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-111566`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #110606: \[Bug\] _strip_background_review_harness skips next assistant incorrectly on consecutive harness messages

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#111566: fix(state): consecutive background-review prompts no longer drop the real assistant reply on restore (#110606, salvage #110618)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_state.py`, `tests/hermes_state/test_background_review_session_isolation.py`
- **#110618: fix(state): preserve replies after consecutive review harness prompts**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#111566`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #111566 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-15`.