Add initial prompt flag to chat CLI

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 19675 · hermes cli

Data as of 2026-10-23 11:54 UTC

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #97121. Check it covers your case.

open issues

open PRs

items grouped

Known?: Yes. 4 related items grouped here, 2 issues already closed.
Fix event: A fix was merged to main in PR #97121. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
Tracker: The maintainers' tracker marks this unresolved. That is separate from the fix event.
Still open: Nothing open on GitHub.

Next step: read #97121, then check it covers your case.

These items propose and implement a CLI flag that lets users seed a Hermes chat session with an initial prompt before continuing interactively.

Open issues0

No open issues.

No open pull requests.

Merged to main. A stamp counts the issues a fix is linked to.

#97121 hermes chat -q now stays interactive: TTY prompts seed a live session, submitted literally (Omarchy prompted launches)

merged to main

files: cli.py, hermes_cli/_parser.py, hermes_cli/main.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_seeded_interactive_query.py, ui-tui/src/__tests__/submissionCore.test.ts, ui-tui/src/app/createGatewayEventHandler.ts, ui-tui/src/app/interfaces.ts, ui-tui/src/app/submissionCore.ts, ui-tui/src/app/useMainApp.ts, ui-tui/src/app/useSubmission.ts, website/docs/reference/cli-commands.md

From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1

#20031 feat(cli): add initial chat prompt flag · superseded by another PR → #19675, #97121

Closed issues · 2

Closed#19675feat(cli): add --initial PROMPT to hermes chat for seeded interactive sessions
Closed#20799Feature: start Hermes with a provided input prompt, then continue in chat mode

How this cluster was grouped

Link evidence (partly structural links): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.
Members outside that structural core may belong to a different underlying problem.
Pairwise link density 0.39: the share of item 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.

Check whether a fix covers the open issues here, with your own agent. Bring back evidence for maintainers.

Open the Lab

The same facts, typed.