NousResearch/hermes-agent

Terminal blinking caused by excessive UI invalidation

Cluster 282 · hermes cli. Data as of

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #284 on 3 Mar 2026. Check it covers your case.

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A fix was merged to main in PR #284. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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These issues and fixes address unintended terminal blinking in the Hermes Agent CLI, traced to invalidate() calls in polling loops. The proposed solutions involve removing or throttling those calls to reduce unnecessary redraws.

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Fixes on record

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  • #284 fix(cli): throttle UI invalidate to prevent terminal blinking on SSH

    merged to main

    files: cli.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1

  • #283 fix: remove invalidate() calls from polling loops to fix terminal blinking · superseded by another PR → #284
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#282Unintended terminal blinking in Hermes Agent CLI
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  • Pairwise link density 0.67: 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.

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Subsystem
hermes cli
Merged PRs
#284
Closed issues
1
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1 PR closed without merging
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