# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fix session_search leaking gateway delegate children

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #111365: \[Bug\]: Gateway-spawned delegate_task children leak into session_search results
- PR #111367: fix(state): exclude delegate children from source-scoped session search

A bug was identified where gateway-spawned delegate task children were incorrectly appearing in session-scoped search results. Fixes were made to exclude these delegate children from source-scoped session searches.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #111365: \[Bug\]: Gateway-spawned delegate_task children leak into session_search results

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#111367: fix(state): exclude delegate children from source-scoped session search**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `wontfix_bydesign`; implication `wontfix`; refs `2b55ded1ac`, `6005aa1fd9`, `#19434`, `#111367`
  - files: `hermes_state_search.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server_session_search.py`, `tests/hermes_state/test_search_excludes_delegate_children.py`
- **#112163: fix(state): session_search no longer returns gateway-spawned delegate children (#111365, salvage #111367)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#111365`

## Fix status

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