# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Terminal blinking caused by excessive UI invalidation

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

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.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #284. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #284 (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-284`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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

- #282: Unintended terminal blinking in Hermes Agent CLI

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#284: fix(cli): throttle UI invalidate to prevent terminal blinking on SSH**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `cli.py`
- **#283: fix: remove invalidate() calls from polling loops to fix terminal blinking**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#284`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #284 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-03-03`. This confirmation is old and may be out of date (a revert/reopen would not have invalidated it here); re-verify.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`