# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Show exit code on silent post-setup npm failures

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #56566: Post-setup npm failures can omit the subprocess exit code
- PR #56567: fix(tools): show exit code for post-setup npm failures
- PR #57123: fix(cli): show exit code for silent post-setup failures

These issues and PRs address a CLI bug where post-setup npm failures that produce no stderr output omit the subprocess exit code, leaving users without diagnostic information.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.40`: 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

- #56566: Post-setup npm failures can omit the subprocess exit code

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#56567: fix(tools): show exit code for post-setup npm failures**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `hermes_cli/tools_config.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_tools_config.py`
- **#56593: fix(cli): show npm exit code on silent post-setup failure**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
- **#57123: fix(cli): show exit code for silent post-setup failures**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `hermes_cli/tools_config.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_tools_config.py`
- **#59839: fix(cli): show subprocess exit code when post-setup stderr is empty**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#56567`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`