# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Todo list items lost or missing across turns

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes relate to todo list items disappearing or becoming inaccessible, with causes traced to compaction, history pairing, and session resume behavior in the agent/TUI.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #125161. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #125161 (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-125161`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #124960: todo_list tool: created todos intermittently lost (read returns empty after creating 11 items)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#125161: fix(agent): restore todo_list items across turns and on TUI resume**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `model_tools.py`, `run_agent.py`, `tests/agent/test_run_agent.py`, `tools/todo_tool.py`, `tui_gateway/tool_progress.py`
- **#124984: fix(todo): recover todo items lost after compaction demotes tool results**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `6d88dc1fe5`, `#124960`, `#125161`, `#124997`
- **#124997: fix(agent): canonicalize todo history pairing**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `6d88dc1fe5`, `#125161`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #125161 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-27`.