# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Recorder stream lifecycle and rebuild fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a bug where cached recorder input streams become inactive or dead, particularly on macOS, and introduce logic to detect and rebuild stale recorder streams. Related TTS and voice pipeline fixes are bundled alongside the stream rebuild work.

## 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 #121741. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #121741 (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-121741`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #75417: Wake-word cycles leave a dead cached recorder InputStream on macOS

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#121741: fix(tts): working xAI streaming, Gemini key out of URLs, no spoken think tails, recorder stream rebuild**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/150129844+andyst-dev@users.noreply.github.com`, `tests/tools/test_tts_dotenv_fallback.py`, `tests/tools/test_tts_gemini.py`, `tests/tools/test_tts_streaming.py`, `tests/tools/test_voice_mode.py`, `tools/tts_streaming.py`, `tools/tts_tool_providers.py`, `tools/voice_mode.py`
- **#75541: fix(voice): rebuild inactive recorder streams**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `42c5ed5787`, `#121741`, `#75417`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #121741 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-26`.
- Subsystem: `agent`