# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Empty session cleanup and visibility handling

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #56733: Bug: deleting sessions can leave visible 0-message placeholder rows
- PR #56744: \[codex\] hide empty untitled sessions from pickers
- PR #56858: fix(sessions): hide empty placeholder rows

These items address how empty or placeholder sessions are created, stored, and displayed — covering deferred DB writes, filtering zero-message rows from pickers, and related UI fixes.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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

- #56733: Bug: deleting sessions can leave visible 0-message placeholder rows

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#56744: \[codex\] hide empty untitled sessions from pickers**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `hermes_cli/main.py`, `hermes_cli/session_listing.py`, `hermes_state.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_session_listing.py`, `tests/test_hermes_state.py`, `tests/test_tui_gateway_server.py`, `tui_gateway/server.py`
- **#56858: fix(sessions): hide empty placeholder rows**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#56744`
  - files: `hermes_cli/console_engine.py`, `hermes_cli/main.py`, `hermes_cli/session_listing.py`, `tests/gateway/test_session_list_allowed_sources.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_console_engine.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_session_listing.py`, `tests/test_tui_gateway_server.py`, `tui_gateway/server.py`

## Fix status

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