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Prevent atomic writers from recreating deleted profiles

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 112592

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #112653. Check it covers your case.

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These issues and pull requests address a bug where atomic write operations (such as late cache saves) would recreate a named profile's home directory after it had been deleted. Multiple fix attempts and related changes are grouped here.

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  • #112653 Profile rename migrates session/routing identity; deleted profiles are not re-created by atomic writers (#111926, #112592; salvage #111927 #112594 #112601 #112596)

    merged to main

    files: agent/models_dev.py, agent/secret_sources/_cache.py, cli.py, gateway/control_socket.py, gateway/lifecycle_ledger.py, gateway/run.py, gateway/run_profile_reconcile.py, gateway/session.py, gateway/shutdown_flush.py, hermes_cli/auth.py, hermes_cli/auth_oauth_grants.py, hermes_cli/install_identity.py, hermes_cli/local_runtime/supervisor.py, hermes_cli/models.py, hermes_cli/personality.py, hermes_cli/plugin_catalog.py, hermes_cli/process_identity.py, hermes_cli/profile_cmd.py, hermes_cli/profile_identity.py, hermes_cli/profiles.py (+26 more)

4 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 3 · done elsewhere 1

  • #112594 fix: prevent deleted profiles from being recreated by atomic writes · merged via another change → 9085ef9, #112653
  • #112596 fix(profiles): atomic writers no longer re-create a deleted named profile home · merged via another change → 9085ef9, #112653
  • #112597 fix(utils): atomic writers refuse to resurrect a deleted named profile home · done elsewhere → 9085ef9, #112653, #112594, #112601, #112596
  • #112601 fix(utils): atomic writers and their callers refuse to resurrect a deleted named profile home · merged via another change → 9085ef9, #112653
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#112592Atomic writers re-create a deleted named profile home (late cache save after hermes profile delete)
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  • Pairwise link density 0.40: 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.

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16 Sep 2026

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