# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Tool failure outcomes lost or misrepresented in summaries

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern a bug where errors or refusals from tool operations (such as \`write_file\`) are incorrectly summarized as successes, and proposed fixes to preserve accurate failure outcomes in templated tool-result stubs and agent summaries.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 2 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #132141. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #132141 (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-132166`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.40`: 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

- #131244: Compaction summarizes a REFUSED write_file (and a rejected patch) as a success — the post-compaction agent then reports a write that never happened

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#132141: Compaction stubs keep a tool call's FAILED outcome (#131244, salvage #131312)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `agent/context_compressor.py`, `tests/agent/test_context_compressor.py`
- **#132166: Compaction no longer stubs a refused write_file as written (#131244, salvage #131247)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `agent/context_compressor.py`, `tests/agent/test_context_compressor.py`
- **#131247: fix(agent): preserve failed mutation outcomes in summaries**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `f6c78be31e`, `8519e9467d`, `#132166`, `#132141`, `#131244`
- **#131312: fix(compression): keep the outcome in templated tool-result stubs**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `d6e740b874`, `#132141`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #132141 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-03`.