Cairn
NousResearch/hermes-agent

PermissionError in context-file discovery crashes agent surfaces

Cluster 112430 · agent. Data as of

1 open item. Fix merged in #113143 on 17 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

The short answer

0open issues
1open PR
3items grouped
Known?
Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
Fix event
A fix was merged to main in PR #113143. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
Tracker
The maintainers' tracker marks this resolved, deciding PR #113143. That is separate from the fix event.
Still open
0 issues and 1 PR.

An unguarded PermissionError raised during system-prompt context-file discovery (hermes.md and .cursor/rules) was crashing multiple agent surfaces simultaneously. These members address adding permission-error guards to the relevant discovery functions.

Open issues0

No open issues.

Open PRs1

  • PR#112432fix(agent): guard _find_hermes_md and .cursor/rules discovery against PermissionError

Fixes on record

Merged to main. A stamp counts the issues a fix is linked to.

  • #113143 fix(agent): an unreadable directory no longer crashes system-prompt context-file discovery on every surface (#112430, salvage #112432, #8767)

    merged to main

    files: agent/prompt_builder.py, contributors/emails/[redacted:email], contributors/emails/[redacted:email], tests/agent/test_prompt_builder.py

Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#112430[Bug]: Catastrophic outage — unguarded PermissionError in _find_hermes_md() kills terminal, TUI, dashboard and gateway messaging at once; hermes doctor --fix can't repair it
How this cluster was grouped
  • Link evidence (structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
  • Pairwise link density 0.67: the share of item 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.

Pick up a Lab task

Check whether a fix covers the open issues here, with your own agent. Bring back evidence for maintainers.

Open the Lab

At a glance

Subsystem
agent
Merged PRs
#113143
Closed issues
1
Attempts
0 PRs closed without merging
Fix link checked
17 Sep 2026

For your agent

The same facts, typed.

cluster/112430.json
cluster/112430.md