NousResearch/hermes-agent

Reactions triggering unnecessary session display rewrites

Cluster 111032. Data as of

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #111393 on 15 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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A fix was merged to main in PR #111393. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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These items concern a bug where reaction writes incorrectly trigger a full session display order rewrite on the next read. The fix aims to prevent reactions from causing this expensive, unintended backfill behavior.

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  • #111393 fix(state): a reaction no longer rewrites the whole session's display order on the next read (#111032, salvage #111037)

    merged to main

    files: hermes_state_common.py, hermes_state_messages.py, tests/hermes_state/test_get_messages_include_compacted.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 1

  • #111037 fix(state): stop reactions from rewriting entire session history · merged via another change → 7e4180d, 8fecfee, #111393, #111032
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#111032[Bug]: display_metadata-only writes (reactions) fire messages_display_identity_update → O(session) display backfill rewrite on the next read
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#111393
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15 Sep 2026

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