# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Expose tool call success/failure signals in responses

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #73389: \[Feature/Bug\]: No signal exposed to indicate whether a completed run's tool calls actually succeeded - a session with zero working tools can still return a confident, well-formed disposition
- PR #73585: feat(agent): expose signal for whether completion carries tool calls

These members all concern the lack of visibility into whether tool calls within a completion or agent run actually succeeded, and request that success/failure counts or signals be surfaced in API responses and agent outputs.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #73389: \[Feature/Bug\]: No signal exposed to indicate whether a completed run's tool calls actually succeeded - a session with zero working tools can still return a confident, well-formed disposition

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#73585: feat(agent): expose signal for whether completion carries tool calls**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `e28d993c289d`, `#73389`, `#73585`, `#73805`, `#374151`
  - files: `agent/tool_executor.py`, `cli.py`, `gateway/platforms/api_server.py`, `hermes_cli/model_switch.py`, `hermes_cli/models.py`, `skills/email/himalaya/SKILL.md`, `skills/email/himalaya/references/configuration.md`
- **#73805: feat(api): expose tool call success/failure counts in chat/completions response**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `8aa229aeac9f`, `#73389`, `#73585`, `#73805`, `#1`, `#15803`, `#14532`, `#6`, `#9`, `#374151`, `#4338`

## Fix status

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