# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Add optional message timestamps to CLI output

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and pull requests relate to adding timestamp display functionality to CLI messages and session listings. Some members also bundle additional features like docker_extra_args and lazy skill loading.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 3 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: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-23599`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #1569: \[Feature\]: timestamp every message sent to cli

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#1741: feat(cli): add timestamps to session list messages**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#1569`
- **#2258: feat(cli): add optional message timestamps between exchanges**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
- **#2420: feat: docker_extra_args, message timestamps, and lazy skill loading**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `ebf2ea584`, `#23599`
- **#23599: feat(terminal,cli): docker_extra_args + display.timestamps**. merged to main
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `cli-config.yaml.example`, `cli.py`, `hermes_cli/config.py`, `tools/environments/docker.py`, `tools/terminal_tool.py`

## Fix status

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