# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Session adoption loses compacted history on transfer

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug where adopting a stranded session drops compaction-archived turns before retiring the donor session. The members cover the bug report and associated fixes to preserve compacted history during adoption and transfer export.

## 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 #124107. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #124107 (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-124107`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #122679: \[Bug\]: stranded-session adoption drops compacted turns, then retires the donor that held them

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#124107: fix(sessions): adoption and transfer export keep compaction-archived turns**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/console_engine.py`, `hermes_cli/web_routers/sessions.py`, `hermes_state_messages.py`, `hermes_state_portability.py`, `hermes_state_sessions.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_console_engine.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server.py`, `tests/hermes_state/test_session_archived_round_trip.py`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_session_foreign.py`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_stranded_session_adoption.py`
- **#122680: fix(sessions): stranded-session adoption carries compacted history before retiring the donor**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `41303b379e7a737dbb6b0bac561cb672d5c5e30f`, `#124107`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #124107 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-26`.