# NousResearch/hermes-agent · uv exclude-newer breaking installs for undated packages

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues address a bug where uv's exclude-newer option causes install failures or incomplete updates for packages lacking upload date metadata, such as setuptools, pillow, and mcp. Fixes involve whitelisting affected packages or adjusting how exclude-newer handles missing date information.

## 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 #86694. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #86694 (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-86694`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #75992: .update-incomplete left after every update: uv exclude-newer filters packages with no upload date (setuptools/pillow/mcp)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#86694: fix(deps): stop exclude-newer from bricking installs on no-date and exact-pinned packages**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `pyproject.toml`, `scripts/install.sh`, `tests/test_packaging_metadata.py`
- **#76020: fix: add setuptools, pillow, mcp to exclude-newer-package whitelist (#75992)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `ffb1b2bc7e1b`, `#75992`, `#76020`, `#1`, `#15803`, `#14532`, `#6`, `#9`, `#374151`, `#4338`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #86694 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-15`.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`