# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fix parsing of stringified display_metadata in timeline

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a bug where display_metadata stored or received as a JSON string causes a TypeError during session load or delegation timeline parsing. The fixes add decoding/parsing logic to handle this serialized format.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #70611: Session load fails with TypeError when display_metadata is a JSON string

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#70369: fix(desktop): decode persisted timeline metadata**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#71109`, `#70593`, `#70788`
- **#70621: fix(desktop): parse string display_metadata for delegation timeline**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#70369`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`