# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Filter session_meta from chat-completions payload

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes address a bug where transcript-only session_meta entries leak into chat-completions payloads during session restore or resume, causing validation errors. Multiple fixes target filtering these roles from CLI, gateway, and history contexts.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 2 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 #4880. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #4880 (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: `partially_resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-4880`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.
- Members outside that structural core may belong to a different underlying problem.
- Pairwise link density `0.34`: 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

- #4715: \[Bug\]: CLI resume/session restore can leak transcript-only \`session_meta\` into chat-completions payload
- #5364: fix(gateway): /btw command fails with validation error due to session_meta in history

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#4880: fix: filter transcript-only roles from chat-completions payload**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `cli.py`, `run_agent.py`, `tests/test_session_meta_filtering.py`
- **#4717: fix: filter transcript-only roles from chat-completions payload**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#4880`
- **#4790: fix(cli): fully filter session_meta from restored conversations**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #4880 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-04-03`. This confirmation is old and may be out of date (a revert/reopen would not have invalidated it here); re-verify.
- Subsystem: `agent`