# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Remove unused message content from session search queries

## Open now

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A bug was identified where session search queries were selecting full message content that was never returned to callers, causing unnecessary I/O overhead on large state databases. The associated changes drop that unused column from the query.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #86764. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #86764 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #77033: \[Bug\]: session search reads full message content it never returns (I/O waste on large state DBs)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#86764: perf: salvage query/serialization cluster — session-search I/O, adaptive hydration, Anthropic client reuse, parallel model fetches**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/agent_runtime_helpers.py`, `agent/tool_executor.py`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `hermes_cli/model_switch.py`, `hermes_cli/models.py`, `hermes_state_search.py`, `run_agent.py`, `tests/agent/test_anthropic_request_client_reuse.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_model_cache_parallel_prefetch.py`, `tests/run_agent/test_token_persistence_non_cli.py`, `tests/test_hermes_state.py`, `tests/tools/test_session_search.py`, `tools/session_search_tool.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/sessions.md`
- **#77034: perf(state): stop selecting full message content in session search**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#86764`
- **#77214: fix(search): drop unused m.content from search result rows (#77033)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#77034`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #86764 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-15`.
- Subsystem: `agent`