# NousResearch/hermes-agent · FTS index corruption handling in state.db

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address how corrupt full-text-search indexes in state.db are detected and handled, covering error catching inside rebuild passes and related data-loss concerns during rebuilds. No resolution status is assumed.

## 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 #134721. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #134721 (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-134721`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #133375: state.db FTS corruption leads to ~14h of silent data loss: one-shot rebuild, repair-only-on-open, in-memory retry queue

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#134721: fix(state): a corrupt FTS index no longer aborts the session-search rebuild and optimize passes (#133375, salvage #133400)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_state_search.py`, `tests/hermes_state/test_fts_rebuild_corruption_class.py`
- **#133400: fix(state): catch the corruption-class DatabaseError inside rebuild_fts()**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `daa9593a03`, `#134721`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #134721 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-07`.
- Subsystem: `agent`