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Delegate tool handling non-string message content

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 28639 · agent

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #40283. Check it covers your case.

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A fix was merged to main in PR #40283. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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These issues and PRs address crashes and incorrect behavior in the delegate task system when tool message content is a list, dict, or content-block structure rather than a plain string. Multiple fix attempts cover different code paths including error detection, tracing, and observability.

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  • #40283 fix(delegate): handle content-block tool results (#28639)

    merged to main

    files: scripts/release.py, tests/tools/test_delegate.py, tools/delegate_tool.py

6 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 2 · done elsewhere 1 · stale or abandoned 1 · superseded by another PR 1 · other 1

  • #28648 fix(delegate): handle list tool message content in _run_single_child (#28639) · merged via another change → #40283
  • #28658 fix(agent): normalize non-string tool content in delegate tool_trace (#28639) · stale or abandoned
  • #28899 fix(delegate): tolerate non-string tool message content (#28639) · done elsewhere → f83918c, #40283, #28639
  • #29207 fix(delegate): handle list-form tool message content (#28639) · other → #28639, #28899, #28658, #28648, #29275
  • #29275 fix(delegate): handle list/dict tool message content in _looks_like_error_output · merged via another change → #40283
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  • #33807 fix(delegate): handle list-shaped tool message content · superseded by another PR → #28639, #28899, #29275, #28648
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#28639delegate_task crashes when tool message content is a list
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6 PRs closed without merging
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6 Jun 2026

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