# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Protect manual conversation titles from auto-overwrite

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #51394: feat: respect manually-set conversation titles (don't auto-overwrite)

These items address a shared concern: preventing automatic title-generation logic from overwriting titles that users have set manually. They also touch on collision deduplication and atomic writes for session and cron title handling.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 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 #66058. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #66058 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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.

## Open related issues

- #51394: feat: respect manually-set conversation titles (don't auto-overwrite)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#66058: fix(title): atomic auto-title writes + collision dedup for sessions and cron (salvage #51483 + #50575)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/title_generator.py`, `cron/scheduler.py`, `hermes_state.py`, `scripts/release.py`, `tests/agent/test_title_generator.py`, `tests/cron/test_scheduler.py`, `tests/test_hermes_state.py`
- **#51483: fix(agent): avoid overwriting manual session titles**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `f725cf830`, `d05cd7c1e`, `#66058`, `#50575`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #66058 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-07-17`.
- Subsystem: `agent`