# NousResearch/hermes-agent · CLI paste handling and long message robustness fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and pull requests address problems with multiline paste input in the CLI, including silently dropped messages, ENAMETOOLONG errors on long queued messages, and related paste file expansion and error handling improvements.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #18760. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #18760 (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-18760`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #17666: CLI: long pasted multi-line messages silently dropped / never delivered

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#18760: fix(cli): robust paste file expansion and process_loop error handling (salvage #17939)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `cli.py`, `scripts/release.py`
- **#17939: fix(cli): robust paste file expansion and process_loop error handling**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#18760`
- **#22833: fix(cli): handle ENAMETOOLONG on long queued messages**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `906881c38bdd4494420bd557cb17986e347b29ee`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #18760 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-05-02`.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`