# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Streaming finalize edit missing for some messages

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug where finalize=True edits were not reliably emitted after the last stream chunk, causing rich_blocks to be silently dropped in certain adapter and single-chunk scenarios. Includes the bug report and two related fixes.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #77805: Streaming consumer skips finalize=True edit, silently dropping rich_blocks on single-chunk messages

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#77851: fix(slack): always emit finalize=True edit after last stream chunk (#77805)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `6ad463a3ca`
- **#77852: fix(streaming): fire finalize edit for adapters with extra content (#77805)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `6ad463a3ca`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `gateway`