# NousResearch/hermes-agent · CLI --create-if-missing ignores explicit --source on session creation

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #137373: \[Bug\]: \`chat -c <title> --create-if-missing\` ignores \`--source\` and always stores the session as \`cli\`
- PR #137375: fix(cli): keep an explicit --source on the --create-if-missing session mint
- PR #137402: fix(cli): keep the explicit --source on --create-if-missing session mints

The members concern the CLI \`chat -c <title> --create-if-missing\` flow, where an explicit \`--source\` is reportedly not kept and the session is stored as \`cli\`. One item is a bug report and two are pull requests with near-identical titles proposing to preserve the explicit source.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Open related issues

- #137373: \[Bug\]: \`chat -c <title> --create-if-missing\` ignores \`--source\` and always stores the session as \`cli\`

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#137375: fix(cli): keep an explicit --source on the --create-if-missing session mint**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `hermes_cli/main.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_chat_c_fail_loudly.py`
- **#137402: fix(cli): keep the explicit --source on --create-if-missing session mints**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `hermes_cli/main.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_chat_c_fail_loudly.py`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`