# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fabricated instruction in captionless image uploads

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #82847: Captionless image uploads fabricate a user instruction
- PR #82866: fix(agent): use factual placeholder for captionless image uploads

These issues and pull requests concern a bug where uploading an image without a caption causes the system to fabricate a user instruction rather than using a factual placeholder. The members address identifying and fixing this behavior across affected sites and the agent layer.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Open related issues

- #82847: Captionless image uploads fabricate a user instruction

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#82866: fix(agent): use factual placeholder for captionless image uploads**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `agent/image_routing.py`, `agent/transports/codex_app_server_session.py`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-prompt-actions/submit.ts`, `cli.py`, `tests/agent/test_image_routing.py`, `tests/agent/transports/test_codex_app_server_session.py`, `tui_gateway/server.py`, `ui-tui/src/app/createGatewayEventHandler.ts`, `ui-tui/src/config/env.ts`
- **#99149: fix(image): remove fabricated instruction from captionless image uploads (4 sites)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#82866`, `#82847`

## Fix status

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