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Personality prompt sync and settings write bug

Cluster 51882 · apps/desktop. Data as of

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #81946 on 8 Aug 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These members address a bug where the desktop settings UI writes only the display field for personality, leaving the agent system prompt unset or silently ignored. A fix attempts to make personality selection persist correctly without overwriting manually set system prompts.

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  • #81946 fix(personality): preserve manual system prompts (supersedes #81792, #56773)

    merged to main

    files: cli.py, gateway/run.py, gateway/slash_commands.py, hermes_cli/cli_commands_mixin.py, hermes_cli/config.py, tests/cli/test_personality_none.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_resolve_ephemeral_system_prompt.py, tests/test_tui_gateway_server.py, tests/tui_gateway/test_make_agent_personality_prompt.py, tests/tui_gateway/test_personality_clobbers_system_prompt.py, tui_gateway/server.py

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1 · other 1

  • #51906 fix: sync web personality prompt · other → #81946, #81791
  • #81979 fix(personality): make personality selection round-trip without clobbering the manual system prompt (supersedes #81792, #56773, #51906) · superseded by another PR → #81946, #51906
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#51882[Bug]: Desktop Settings UI (Chat→Personality) writes only display.personality, never agent.system_prompt — personality overlay silently ignored
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Merged PRs
#81946
Closed issues
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2 PRs closed without merging
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8 Aug 2026

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