# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Personality selection clobbering manual system prompt

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

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.

## 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 #81946. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #81946 (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-81946`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

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

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#81946: fix(personality): preserve manual system prompts (supersedes #81792, #56773)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - 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`
- **#81792: fix(personality): preserve manual system prompts (#81791)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#81946`
- **#81979: fix(personality): make personality selection round-trip without clobbering the manual system prompt (supersedes #81792, #56773, #51906)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#81946`, `#51906`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #81946 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-08`.