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Gateway startup crash from malformed sessions.json entries

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 46994 · gateway

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #52116. Check it covers your case.

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A fix was merged to main in PR #52116. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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A bug causes the gateway to crash or log errors on startup when sessions.json contains non-dict entries (e.g. booleans). These members address detecting and skipping such malformed entries instead of raising an exception.

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  • #52116 fix(gateway): skip non-dict entries in session loading (#46994)

    merged to main

    files: gateway/session.py, tests/gateway/test_session_load_bool.py

4 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 2 · duplicate 1 · superseded by another PR 1

  • #47040 fix(gateway): guard against non-dict JSON in sessions.json load · duplicate → #43985
  • #47082 fix(gateway): skip non-dict entries in session loading (#46994) · done elsewhere → 9c99437, #46994, #52116
  • #47239 fix(gateway): skip non-dict sessions.json entries instead of crashing on load · superseded by another PR → #46999
  • #47483 fix(gateway): handle malformed session entries without crashing on startup · done elsewhere → 9c99437, #52116
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#46994Gateway: "Failed to load sessions: argument of type 'bool' is not iterable" on every startup
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  • Pairwise link density 0.33: 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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#52116
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4 PRs closed without merging
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24 Jun 2026

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