# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Session cost persistence across gateway restarts

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #67762: \[Bug\]: agent.session_estimated_cost_usd resets to $0 on gateway restart
- PR #67770: fix(agent): rehydrate session cost counters on agent construction (#67762)
- PR #67796: fix(agent): rehydrate session accumulators from SQLite on restart (#67762)

These items address a bug where agent session cost counters reset to zero on gateway restart, and introduce fixes to rehydrate cost accumulators from persistent storage. A related change adds session cost display to the desktop status bar.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #67762: \[Bug\]: agent.session_estimated_cost_usd resets to $0 on gateway restart

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#67770: fix(agent): rehydrate session cost counters on agent construction (#67762)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `c90a71c5ecb7`, `#67770`, `#67778`, `#67796`, `#67774`, `#67790`, `#67804`, `#67834`, `#67762`, `#67764`, `#67765`, `#374151`
  - files: `agent/agent_init.py`, `hermes_state.py`, `tests/hermes_state/test_session_cost_rehydration.py`
- **#67778: fix: rehydrate session cost from DB on gateway restart (#67762)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
- **#67796: fix(agent): rehydrate session accumulators from SQLite on restart (#67762)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `agent/agent_init.py`

## Fix status

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