# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Agent shell awareness and API parameter fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members address two distinct issues: improving the agent's awareness of its shell/terminal access via system prompt changes, and adding missing parameters to the Responses API for the Codex provider.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #910. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #910 (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: `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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #747: \[Bug\]: hermesagent consistently forgets he/she/it has shell access

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#910: fix: add missing Responses API parameters for Codex provider**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `run_agent.py`, `tests/test_run_agent_codex_responses.py`
- **#834: Fix #747: Add explicit terminal/shell access awareness to system prompt**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#747`, `#910`, `#783`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #910 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-03-11`. This confirmation is old and may be out of date (a revert/reopen would not have invalidated it here); re-verify.
- Subsystem: `agent`