NousResearch/hermes-agent

Photon iMessage sidecar stability and dependency issues

Cluster 59169 · gateway. Data as of 2026-10-28 11:56 UTC

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #59213 on 6 Jul 2026. Check it covers your case.

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Known?: Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
Fix event: A fix was merged to main in PR #59213. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
Tracker: The maintainers' tracker marks this resolved, deciding PR #59213. That is separate from the fix event.
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These items concern recurring problems with the Photon iMessage sidecar: spectrum-ts version mismatches, stale npm dependencies, sidecar death spirals without respawn, and gateway failure to exit on fatal adapter errors. Multiple fixes and upgrades target sidecar startup, health monitoring, and crash recovery behavior.

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#59213 fix(photon): auto-reinstall stale sidecar deps before start (salvage #57943)

merged to main

files: plugins/platforms/photon/adapter.py, scripts/release.py, tests/plugins/platforms/photon/test_sidecar_deps_stale.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 1

#57943 fix(photon): auto-reinstall stale sidecar deps before start · merged via another change → 3cd93f6, #59213, #59169

Closed issues · 1

Closed#59169hermes update doesn't reinstall Photon sidecar npm deps after a spectrum-ts version bump

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Pairwise link density 0.67: the share of item 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.

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Subsystem: gateway
Merged PRs: #59213
Closed issues: 1
Attempts: 1 PR closed without merging
Fix link checked: 6 Jul 2026

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