NousResearch/hermes-agent

TUI startup failure due to --expose-gc flag handling

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #29998 on 21 May 2026. Check it covers your case.

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A fix was merged to main in PR #29998. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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A bug where the Hermes TUI fails because --expose-gc was incorrectly passed via NODE_OPTIONS, and related fix attempts to pass it as a direct Node.js CLI argument instead.

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  • #29998 fix(tui): pass --expose-gc as node argv instead of NODE_OPTIONS

    merged to main

    files: hermes_cli/main.py, scripts/release.py

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 1 · stale or abandoned 1

  • #17200 fix(tui): pass --expose-gc as a node CLI flag, not via NODE_OPTIONS (#17187) · stale or abandoned
  • #21711 fix(tui): pass --expose-gc as node argv instead of NODE_OPTIONS · merged via another change → 2ea7cf2, #29998, #17187
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#17187[Bug]: `hermes --tui` fails with `--expose-gc is not allowed in NODE_OPTIONS`
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21 May 2026

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