# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Vault error handling for malformed state

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address cases where corrupt vault files or non-dict vault configurations produce raw tracebacks instead of clean error messages. The work involves hardening error paths so malformed vault state surfaces as user-facing errors.

## 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 #116785. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #116785 (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-116785`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #115867: Malformed vault state escapes the designed error paths: corrupt vault file tracebacks, non-dict vault config crashes

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#116785: fix(vault): corrupt vault files and non-dict vault config surface as clean errors instead of tracebacks (#115867, salvage #115868)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/vault_store.py`, `hermes_cli/vault.py`, `tests/agent/test_vault_store.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_vault_sources_shape.py`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_vault_methods.py`, `tui_gateway/methods_vault.py`
- **#115868: harden vault error handling for malformed state**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `0a44c2acd36c`, `#116785`, `#115867`, `#115868`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #116785 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-20`.