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Personality selection clobbering manual system prompt

Cluster 81791. Data as of 2026-10-25 11:21 UTC

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #81946 on 8 Aug 2026. Check it covers your case.

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A bug where selecting a personality overwrites a manually set system prompt, along with multiple proposed fixes to preserve the manual prompt during personality selection round-trips.

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#81946 fix(personality): preserve manual system prompts (supersedes #81792, #56773)

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files: cli.py, gateway/run.py, gateway/slash_commands.py, hermes_cli/cli_commands_mixin.py, hermes_cli/config.py, tests/cli/test_personality_none.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_resolve_ephemeral_system_prompt.py, tests/test_tui_gateway_server.py, tests/tui_gateway/test_make_agent_personality_prompt.py, tests/tui_gateway/test_personality_clobbers_system_prompt.py, tui_gateway/server.py

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: superseded by another PR 2

#81792 fix(personality): preserve manual system prompts (#81791) · superseded by another PR → #81946
#81979 fix(personality): make personality selection round-trip without clobbering the manual system prompt (supersedes #81792, #56773, #51906) · superseded by another PR → #81946, #51906

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Closed#81791[Bug]: Selecting a personality overwrites the manual agent.system_prompt (config clobber, silent data loss)

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Merged PRs: #81946
Closed issues: 1
Attempts: 2 PRs closed without merging
Fix link checked: 8 Aug 2026

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