# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Orphaned OpenViking sessions not committed on CLI takeover

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug where orphaned sessions are never committed to OpenViking when a new Hermes CLI process takes over, along with fixes addressing session_id initialization and startup commit logic.

## 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 #69191. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #69191 (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: `unresolved`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #31429: \[Bug\]: Orphaned sessions never committed to OpenViking when new Hermes CLI process takes over

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#69191: fix(openviking): harden session sync and commit recovery**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `plugins/memory/openviking/README.md`, `plugins/memory/openviking/__init__.py`, `tests/plugins/memory/test_openviking_provider.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/memory-providers.md`
- **#31434: fix(openviking): commit orphaned sessions at startup when new CLI process takes over**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#69191`
- **#31493: fix(cli): initialize session_id before OpenViking orphan commit**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#69191`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #69191 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-07-22`.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`