# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Pinned/archived sessions missing from exports

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern a bug where pinned and archived sessions are silently excluded from session exports while still being eligible for deletion via prune, along with fixes to include protected rows in retention backups.

## 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 #132128. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #132128 (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-132128`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #131075: \[Bug\]: \`sessions export\` silently skips pinned/archived sessions while \`sessions prune --include-archived\` deletes them — export→prune loses data with no warning

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#132128: Filtered sessions export now backs up pinned sessions (#131075, salvage #131130)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/sessions_cmd.py`, `hermes_cli/subcommands/sessions.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_sessions_export_retention.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/sessions.md`
- **#131080: fix(sessions): export pinned sessions in filtered backups**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `c3dffacdf3`, `#132128`
- **#131130: fix(sessions): include protected rows in retention backups**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `c3dffacdf3`, `#132128`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #132128 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-03`.