# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Kanban board crash from invalid UTF-8 task fields

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs concern a bug where a single task field containing non-UTF-8 or otherwise undecodable data causes the entire kanban board listing to crash. The work involves making the board tolerant of such invalid fields rather than failing wholesale.

## 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 #112269. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #112269 (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-112269`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #111743: kanban list crashes board-wide on non-UTF-8 task body (one bad row kills the whole listing)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#112269: fix(kanban): one undecodable task field no longer breaks the whole board listing (#111743, supersedes #111748)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/kanban_db.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_db_connect.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_list_undecodable_text.py`
- **#111748: fix(kanban): tolerate invalid UTF-8 task fields**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `4465b8d7d5`, `#112269`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #112269 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-16`.