NousResearch/hermes-agent

Background command queued behind active CLI turn

Cluster 75221. Data as of

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #75267 on 1 Aug 2026. Check it covers your case.

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A fix was merged to main in PR #75267. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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The maintainers' tracker marks this resolved, deciding PR #75267. That is separate from the fix event.
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These issues and PRs concern a bug where the /background command (and its aliases /bg, /btw) is queued until the current CLI turn finishes rather than being dispatched immediately inline. The members address identifying and fixing this dispatch timing behavior.

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  • #75267 fix(cli): dispatch /background inline instead of queuing it behind the turn

    merged to main

    files: cli.py, tests/cli/test_cli_background_busy_path.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: duplicate 1

  • #75303 fix(cli): dispatch /background inline while agent is running (#75221) · duplicate → #75267, #75221
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#75221[Bug]: `/background` (`/bg`, `/btw`) is queued until the active CLI turn finishes
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  • Link evidence (structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
  • Pairwise link density 0.67: the share of item 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.

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Merged PRs
#75267
Closed issues
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1 PR closed without merging
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1 Aug 2026

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