# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Preserve extras during managed runtime rebuilds

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and pull requests address a bug where activated extras are silently dropped when a managed runtime is rebuilt during updates. Fixes aim to preserve both declared extras and hermes-tools dependencies across such rebuilds.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 2 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #86687. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #86687 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-86728`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #72924: Runtime rebuild silently drops declared extras during hermes update

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#86687: fix(update): honesty train — HEAD-move gate, surfaced restart aborts, verified cold-start, self-lock defence**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `hermes_cli/_early_recovery.py`, `hermes_cli/_install_repair.py`, `hermes_cli/main.py`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_cmd_update.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_early_recovery.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_cold_start_gateway_liveness.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_gateway_restart_aborted.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_head_moved_gate.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_interrupted_recovery.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_self_lock.py`
- **#86728: fix(update): preserve activated extras and hermes-tools deps across managed runtime rebuilds (#72924)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `hermes_cli/main.py`, `hermes_cli/tools_config.py`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd.py`, `plugins/observability/langfuse/__init__.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_lazy_refresh_venv_repair.py`, `tests/plugins/test_langfuse_plugin.py`, `tests/tools/test_lazy_deps.py`, `tools/lazy_deps.py`
- **#73309: fix(update): preserve activated extras across runtime rebuilds**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
- **#73310: fix(update): preserve activated extras across runtime rebuilds**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#86728`, `#86687`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #86687 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-15`.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`