# NousResearch/hermes-agent · FTS index rebuild retry and write-stall alerting

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern a gateway bug where a \`failed\` full-text-search index rebuild was permanently abandoned for the process lifetime, and a related scenario where transcript writes silently stalled for an extended period without surfacing errors. The fixes introduce cooldown-based rebuild retries and escalate stalled appends to ERROR level.

## 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 #114854. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #114854 (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-114854`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `1.00`: 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

- #114266: \[Bug\] Silent 11-day total write-outage on live session (disk=0, memory growing) — state.db stops advancing while gateway keeps answering, no alert ever surfaced

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#114854: fix(gateway): FTS rebuild retries on a cooldown instead of giving up for the process lifetime; stalled transcript appends escalate to ERROR (#114266, salvage #114301)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `gateway/run.py`, `gateway/run_turn_runner.py`, `gateway/session.py`, `gateway/session_transcript.py`, `gateway/shutdown_flush.py`, `tests/gateway/test_cached_agent_history_guard.py`, `tests/gateway/test_pending_queue_spool.py`, `tests/gateway/test_session.py`, `tests/gateway/test_session_db_corrupt_fallback.py`, `tests/gateway/test_session_db_replaced_fallback.py`
- **#114301: fix(gateway): retry FTS index rebuild after cooldown instead of giving up permanently**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `f2755aee20d7`, `#114854`, `#114266`, `#114301`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #114854 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-18`.